Masterlink from Beomaster 7000 via 1614 3500

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I am attempting to connect the Beolab 3500  at the other end of the house to my Beomaster. The Masterlink cable runs upinto the attic, where I am trying to connect both ends in that little white box, using the appropriate tool and everything. Sometimes I get the 3500 to respond when I press RADIO, but no sound comes out of the speakers. So I change the setting of the wires, and retry, and the 3500 does not respond at all. I have been at it for a forthnight, off and on, using chatGPT and Grok. The guy who installed the 3500 some years ago, used a cable with eight leads. Four of those are white, and then there is a brown, a blue, a green, and an orange one, and he connected this to the little white junction box, together with the leads to the Beovision and the 1614. I have tried to chart and map the leads, but so far, nothing works. Do I really have to pull both leads out of the attic again and test them, again, or is there som sort of standard setup? I get different input from different AI. And why are there just eight leads in the cable?

Location: Scania, Sweden

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Hi lenhi, The 8 lead cable with the brown/blue/green/orange should be a shielded CAT7 S/FTP cable, normally used for ethernet connections. The white leads are twisted with one of the colored leads. It is perfectly possible to use CAT7 cables for MasterLink connections: try to find a BeoLink handbook (best is to be come silver/gold member of course, for access to manuals!). Some time ago I made such charts for my own cabling needs:
Maybe the tables can help to redo the connections in your junction boxes.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Johan

Location: Netherlands

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Based on the attached pictures i looks like there are som of the wires from the ML cable that is not connected on the network cable side in the junction boxes. I am especially worried about the missing ground connections (the bare wires), but also the missing connection of the pink and Blue/white wire in one of the cases. If these wires are not connected this could be one of the reasons for it not working.

Location: Denmark

Just to add to the above advice, if you are not happy using the B&O junction box (which is quite fiddly) then replace it with something easier to connect, maybe like this: 

Location: Warwickshire, UK

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