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One last thing for tonight…
The Beolab is still displaying the right clock even after I shut down the computer and disconnect the USB port from the Beolink PC2. Even after unplugging PC2 from mains.

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Well its all full of random behavior but one that is consistent (so far…) and quite funny:

Beo4 can wake up the speaker and sometimes a source but that selection is not reflected by LP2 display.

But, if I select CD, although LP stay on ST.BY, the CD starts to spin and music plays. (If I select CD on LP2 it then reflects the track that is playing… but nevermind).

Then, I quit LP2 at start any source from iTunes and there, the Beoport act just as an audio interface: whatever I play from iTunes is played through the ML Beolab.

But If music stops, the Beolab go to sleep and if you select CD again (now LP2 is not started) it won’t work, meaning the Beolab will display CD for one second and click out again.

So it looks like that in certain scenarios, LP2 and Beoport work together if it happens the cross each other somewhere into the computer, but none has the contact for the other and none call the other when it’s needed, meaning the Beolab can’t control LP2, LP2 can’t wake up the Beolab and in the middle, the Beo4 part is still fuzzy.

Let’s resume this tomorrow with hopefully a more methodical process!

 

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Madskp wrote:

First, congrats on the new black box for your collection

Sorry Mad, didnt see that one at first. Thanks.
After four years collecting B&O stuff from Beograms to Beomasters, Beocords to Beosounds, Beoplay to bottle openers and minicars, Beolabs to Beovoxs, this where I’m congratulated two times in a week for being those black boxes! 😀

This is Beoworld…

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Ok, I maybe start to understand something. What it really is and how to handle it I let it for later.

Same config as before: No IR eye, 3500 ML to Beoport, Mac sound out to BP sound in.

Edit while typing: no I don’t.

At a certain point I was able to control the Mac with AR (quite normal), start the speaker with any audio command and hear whatever was played by LP2 (virtual N.RADIO, N.MUSIC but also CD and A.AUX – the audio input of the Mac) through the BL3500. Whatever the source selected ont the Beolab (CD/N.MUSIC/N.RADIO…) the same LP source will be heard. Like if the Beolab was just a true Beolab i.e, a powered speaker and the LP+Mac was a Beosound, in a nutshell the Beoport like just an analog to Masterlink audio interface.

Honestly it would have suited me well: various input to the Beolab3500, beo4 just needed to start the speaker and adjust sound parameters, all control given to AR.

While I was typing I tried to put the system to stand-by. Funny thing is that for once the Beolab AND LP2 went to stby.

But trying to recreate that situation didn’t work whatever the combination I tried.

There is a fuzzy or random parameter that I can’t understand and that makes a mess of all this.

TBC…

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Madskp wrote:

have you tried the Beoport stand alone with the computer?

Not yet. But do you mean with Powerlink speakers or alone with earphones?

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Ok, trying with LP1 I had differently inconsistent results.

LP1 respond to Beo4 (still no eye) to select source and stand by the system. Not to volume control (volume commands are “taken” by the BL3500), Pressing CD brings the CD source on LP and GO start the playback of the first track. But when you want to skip to the next track, it skips to an track from the iTunes library (with a certain logis I’ve not yet concentrated on but it’s always the same tracks).

New thing when I change source, the right source is display on LP1 but with no sound and it brings the macOS system preference dialog upfront.

Also I can’t select PC from the remote…

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In the meantime, something happened: this is kind of working!

I cannot remember where I was but at a certain point, sound came up from the 3500. No IR eye, 3500 ML to Beoport, Mac sound out to BP sound in.

Well, at a certain point I was able to skip tracks and control volume (on the BL3500) but none of the change was reflected in LP2.
After the I was also able to skip tracks and navigate the library with the Apple Remote and then, change were reflected on LP2. Note that B&O volume on LP2 is independent from Beolab 3500 volume, i.e. not linked.
So tha was as if the Mac din’t see the beo4 commands but the 3500 did. and when using the Apple remote it did work.

To shut the system down I had to do a very long press on the beo4 red dot, or the lab 3500 wouldn’t go to stand by.

Clock is displayed on the stand by screen of Lab 3500.

BUT

Now I dont work again. Chossing a source on the beo4 remote just display it for a second and the speaker clicks out.

Starting playback from LP2/AR doesnt wake up the Beolab…

Zut !

 

 

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I did remember that Guy told me the wiring for my MCL2A IR eye is not the same. So I used his advice: the IR eye shows the red light and react to the remote commands (other led blinking) but doesn’t pass commands to the Beoport. LP2 also doesn’t deter the eye.

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Madskp wrote:

I also had some cases where closing LP2 starting BM link and using that, then closing it and starting LP2 would help get things going. Havent seen a pattern in when what helps yet though.

I’ll try that.

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IR Eye disconnected, Beolab back, still nothing
If I press N.Source it displays it for 1 second on the BL3500 screen and the speaker turns itself off immediately.

I have tried also LP1 that clearly allows to put the PC2 in OPT.0 (Same configuration as with the 1611, I guess) but also nothing at all.

I’ve used this for the IR eye wiring. Its a square IR eye (MCL I think) that works with the Beolink Passive. Anyway, I’d like to use it without IR eye, through the 3500 IR receiver…

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Thanks Madskp.

Tried to wire up an IR receiver but it does nothing and LP2 not even detects it.

Had to dig out a Beo4 with N.things.

Trying up now.

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First try:

Beoport connected to the computer in USB and Mac Audio Out to Beoport Audio In.
Bl3500 (Opt 6) connected to Beoport via Masterlink.
The Mac is declared as Audiomaster in LP2.
The Beoport seems to be seen because the windows says SW 1.3.
Also the volume indicator from LP2 change when you turn it up or down.

But no sound, no reaction from the BL3500. No clock either.

I’m soldering a mini jack to an IR receiver to see if it changes something.

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“The Eagle has landed…”

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Hi, I’m not dutch but can still answer 😀

A friend of mine ordered surrounds delivered to my house.
But he misspelled the address and the parcel get lost.
Audiofriends, while knowing it was an error from our side, sent the order another time to the right address, at no cost, not even shipping fee.

I doubt they tricked you.

Here his the email address I have: webshop@repairyourspeakers.com

Please let us know.

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Thank you drmichi for showing us your work.
Nice shade of wood and beautiful Beocorner you have there.

Enjoy.

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tuttivini wrote:

@matador Wouldn’t it be better looking if you also design/print (with black PLA/PETG/ABS) the top panel instead of using piece of black cardboard cut to shape?

Yes it maybe would be. The thing is I dont undertsand anything in PLA/PETG/… plastics and I rely on an remote 16, hormonal dependent teenager for the printings. Then as soon as the wood grills were on the speakers I stopped research!

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The small clamper version is shinny and the big clamper is mat.

EDIT: unless you replace the whole fascia, sorry.

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Guy wrote:

thus flashing light reflections from the surface (depending on CD artwork), and therefore risks triggering epileptic fits?

I think I’ve read somewhere that it was for safety reasons because the spinning disc was too exposed to Beochild fingers.

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XavierItzmann wrote:

the machines with the small clamper had a curved track for the laser, whereas the machines with the big clamper had a straight track.

I believe that the curved tracks laser mechanisms are more reliable.
In all cases a deep cleaning of the eye (lens up, lens down and mirror) should bring back your laser far more often we believe. I’ve cleaned last month the one I took out of a BS9000 MK2 three years ago an it is now spinning perfectly well.

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gerard wrote:

Is Type 2671 ok, or should it be avoided as it seems to be the first type for BS3000.

This is to be confirmed by a more expert member but, I have and have seen many, many Beosound 3000 with fried eprom or IC or whatever is called that chip. It dies and your Beosound just become a brick with a red dot, doors that open and close and thats it.

Most of them (and mine) had the small clamper but I dont know if it’s really related to this.
A guy nearby claims to sell eeproms for repair but I wont play with this.

Mine was pristine and now houses the guts of a Beocenter 2300. Happily!

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