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AVAILABLE NOW!Welcome to my listing for Genuine original vintage Bang & Olufsen B&O BEolink MCL 2A transceiver X-TRA kit In good used working condition with wiring and speaker plugsWorking vintage item, no returns.Please see my other B&O listings Thanks for looking! PS Please dont send me your contact details as this is detected by ebay and may result in restrictions being imposed on either or both of us. I only sell items through ebay. Thanks for your understandingNB. Shipping to non-mainland Britain may attract a surcharge so please contact me first for a quote. ThanksDescription below from BeoWorldWhat is Beolink?Beolink® is a language. One that allows you to get the most out of your entertainment sources, your time, and most importantly, your pleasure. In its abstract form, the language is about a simple form of operation that most of Bang & Olufsens products share. In its physical form Beolink® is a range of products that you decide to connect together - and live with.Beolink® is a Bang & Olufsen expression that covers:the ability to create and operate audio-video systems, andthe ability to distribute sound and picture from a Bang & Olufsen main room system to other rooms in the home, and to operate the main room system from the rooms connected by means of Beolink®Beolink® is not a product - it is a number of features that are the result of the intelligent interaction between products, a synergy effect.Bang and Olufsen in the mid-1980s developed the totally unique Master Control Link system - the first and only one of its type in the world at that time - which made users of B&O equipment independent of the music systems placement. No matter which room you were in, you were able to control the music system and switch from radio to records to tapes, play, record, fast forward or rewind, and even program the system to awaken you in the morning, for example.The secret behind the advanced but simple Link system was the discreet Master Control Link that conveyed the two-way communication between the music system and the remote control unit, be it a Master Control Panel (like Beosystem 5000 MCP5000) with visual feedback, or a Beolink 1000 terminal. Every command which you gave the remote control unit was transformed into infra-red signals which were sent through the Link to the music system. A Link enabled you to take full advantage of your Bang & Olufsen music system. With the added advantage that you didnt have to give up space in the connected room to more than a pair of speakers and the Master Control Link, which wasnt much larger than an audio cassette. The small relay unit could be placed discreetly out of sight - under the bed, in a cupboard or by the skirting board, for example.Compared with other obvious installations in your home, central high fidelity was both simple and manageable. And it was so flexible that new rooms could become part of your system - to the extent and in the order you desired.And in the same way that you could vary furnishings from room to room, you could vary your round-the-house-music, with large powerful speakers in large rooms, smaller speakers elsewhere, and the most compact speakers in the most modest rooms.Bang & Olufsen was the first company to develop the revolutionary idea of expanding the pleasure of TV, video and hi-fi system throughout the whole house. There were different Beolink® system for the different ways in which you wanted to control your music and video sources around the house. By 1988 the following kits were available for you to either do-it-yourself else else a dealer would come out to set it up for you:Standing for Master Control Linkthis system allowed for the main music and video system to be linked up with other rooms. Using the Beolink 1000 remote control, you could, for example, sit in the study and operate both sound and pictures from the main system in the living room. MCL2A formed part of the C-tra Speakers kit.MCL X-tra Speaker KitManufactured: 1985 - present Designer: David Lewis Colours:The X-tra Speakers kit (type 2047) was part of Bang & Olufsens Master Control Link (MCL) system and gave your central B&O audio/video system an extra dimension. You could play any programme or music source you liked and you could hear it in the room where the extra speakers were installed. However that was not all. You could even control the central system from that room, using the Beolink 1000 remote control.The central system was your audio and video systems i.e. a Beomaster, Beocenter or Beovision TV or an audio system alone complete with various sources. The local system comprised a set of Beovox passive speakers as well as the parts which made up the X-tra Speakers kit i.e. a transceiver and an MCL 2A relay box.The local system was connected to the central system by means of a special MCL cable which had to be purchased separately. You could buy whatever length of cable you liked.InstallationThe transceiver had to be mounted on a wall where it could receive the messages from your Beolink® remote control. If you were going to install more than four sets of MCL 2A then you also had to install an expander box, the MCL 2E.The relay box had to be mounted not too distant from the transceiver. The relay box received messages from the central system and fed them through to the X-tra speakers. The transceiver, together with the remote control, told the central system what source to play and at what level.TV in the local systemBy means of an aerial cable you could connect an extra TV to your central video system and use it with the local system. This meant that in addition to watching TV in your local system as well, you could also have access to the other video sources in the central video system e.g. video tapes or satellite TV programmes.Programming was done by means of the Beolink 1000 remote control terminal and with the Beomaster or Beocenter in the central audio system connected to the mains.You had to bring the whole system into stand-by mode (by pressing SHIFT and the red dot on the terminal, and then by pressing LINK, 1, STORE.The stand-by indicator on the transceiver flashed once to confirm that the command had been received. The TV set was then programmed for Option 1 i.e. such that the local TV could be operated without interfering with the TV in the central system.Programming in generalThe local system could be pre-programmed as described below. It was essential that before you could start using the system it was programmed for Option 2 (or Option 1 as for an extra TV set). If you had a local system in several different rooms in the house and if you had a B&O light control system in these rooms, the local system in each room furthermore had to be programmed for light control.Option 2Bring the whole system into standby mode by pressing SHIFT and the red dot of the Beolink terminal. Then press LINK, 2 and STORE.Option 1Bring the whole system into standby mode by pressing SHIFT and the red dot of the Beolink terminal. Then press LINK, 1 and STORE.Thos programming option was only used is the transceiver was incorporated in a system which also comprised a TV in the same room.Light controlYou had to bring the whole system into standby mode by pressing SHIFT and the red dot of the Beolink terminal. You then had to hold the TIMER button on the transceiver and press any digit from 1 to 4 on your Beolink remote control terminal.
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