Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 3500 User manual

BeoLab 3500
Guide

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Contents
Introducing BeoLab 3500, 4
This chapter provides you with an overview of how to use sources in your
main room audio or video system and listen to them on BeoLab 3500 in
another room.
Close-up operation, 6
Find out how to switch on the Timer Play function and ‘listen in’ on a
source playing on the main room system.
Use a Beo4 remote control, 8
Find out how to use the Beo4 remote control to access main room
sources in a link room, make sound settings, and program a Wake-up
Timer.
Information in the display, 14
Find out about display information and how to make settings for the
display. This chapter also provides an overview of the types of
information shown in the BeoLab 3500 display.
How to install BeoLab 3500, 16
Information about installation, connections, and making BeoLab 3500
ready for use. Furthermore, you find cleaning instructions here.
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Introducing BeoLab 3500
BeoLab 3500 gives your main
Bang & Olufsen system an extra
dimension. You can play any
source you like in your main
room audio or video system
and listen to it – via your
BeoLink installation – in the
room with your BeoLab 3500.
BeoLab 3500 can be operated
both close-up and with the
Beo4 remote control. However,
Beo4 gives you the full benefit
of your link system.
Using Beo4, you can control
playback functions in your main
room system, as well as make
BeoLab 3500 wake you up in
the morning.
Close-up operation …
– Switch on the radio in your main
room system, or listen-in on a
source that is currently playing.
– Include BeoLab 3500 in a Timer
Play programming made on your
main room system. Timer Play
switches your system on at a
certain time with a certain
source, and is programmed on
your main room system.
Using Beo4 …
– Switch on any source you like in
your main room system via
BeoLab 3500.
– Operate all the daily playback
functions for the source that is
currently playing via BeoLab 3500.
– Adjust the sound in BeoLab 3500.
– Make a Wake-up Timer on your
BeoLab 3500.
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The main room is the room in
which you have placed the audio
and/or video system – complete
with their various sources (the main
system).
The link room is where you have
BeoLab 3500 installed. From this
room you are able to control and
listen to the sources from the main
system.
There are two different BeoLink
distribution systems available:
– A cable based Master Link (ML)
system.
– A wireless system based on
BeoLink Wireless 1.
BeoLab 3500 can be used in either
system.
For information about installation
refer to ‘Set up BeoLab 3500’
(pp. 16–22) in this Guide.
Note: Although BeoLab 3500 has a
Power Link socket, it can not be
used as an ordinary Power Link
loudspeaker in a audio or video
system!
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Main room
Link room

Close-up operation
You can use the close-up
operation panel to include or
exclude BeoLab 3500 in a Timer
Play you have programmed on
your main audio or video system.
You can also listen in on a source
currently playing on the main
room system.
The Timer Play function is not avail-
able in all Bang & Olufsen systems.
Please refer to the Guide for your
main system.
The key marked MUTE • enables
you to listen in on a source that is
currently playing in your main
system.
When you switch BeoLab 3500 on
in this way, you only get sound in
BeoLab 3500 – the loudspeakers in
the main system are not cut in.
– If no source is playing when you
touch MUTE •, BeoLab 3500
switches on the radio in your
main system.
– Touch MUTE • again briefly, and
BeoLab 3500 switches off (a red
standby indicator appears in the
display). If you keep your finger
on the key for two seconds, both
BeoLab 3500 and your main
system switch off simultaneously.
Listen in and mute the sound
TIMER BANG & OLUFSEN MUTE
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The BeoLab 3500 display and close-up operation panel. If BeoLab 3500 is
included in a Timer Play function, it is indicated by a small red light in the
TIMER key to the left on the display panel.
TIMER key MUTE key

Timer Play control
If you have programmed the main
system to start playing automatically
(Timer Play), BeoLab 3500 can be
included as well. You can activate
or deactivate the Timer Play function
on the close-up operation panel.
> Touch the TIMER key and you
see the current Timer setting of
BeoLab 3500 in the display.
> While the current setting is
displayed, touch the TIMER key
again to change the function
from TIMER (Timer Play) to
NO TIMER (no Timer Play), or
vice versa.
Remote control of Timer Play
When BeoLab 3500 is in standby,
you can use Beo4 to exclude or
include BeoLab 3500 in a Timer
Play programming.
> Press LIST repeatedly until SHIFT is
shown in the display.
> Press 0 to change between
TIMER ON and NO TIMER.
In order to display SHIFT, you must
first add it to the Beo4 list of
functions. Refer to ‘Customising
your Beo4’ in the Beo4 Guide.
Information in the BeoLab 3500
display
TIMER ON
The display shows that BeoLab 3500
is included in a Timer Play
programming.
NO TIMER
The display shows that BeoLab 3500
is excluded from a Timer Play
programming – it will not start up
automatically as programmed on
your main system.
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Use a Beo4 remote control
The Beo4 remote control enables
you to switch on the source you
wish to listen to from your main
room audio or video system,
and to control functions for that
source – just as if you were
operating your main system
directly.
With Beo4, you can make a
separate Wake-up Timer on
BeoLab 3500, and adjust sound
settings for the link speaker.
Functions mentioned on these pages
are only available via BeoLab 3500
if the source in question is present
in your Bang & Olufsen system and
the source supports the function.
To switch on an Audio source …
> Press RADIO to listen to a radio
programme.
> Press CD to listen to a CD.
> Press A MEM (A TAPE) to listen
to an audio recording.
To switch on a Video source …
> Press TV to listen to TV.
> Press DTV (SAT) to listen to
digital TV.
> Press V MEM (V TAPE) to listen
to a video recording.
> Press DVD to listen to a DVD.
To switch on additional
sources …
> Press LIST to display additional
sources, such as N.MUSIC (music
stored on a PC), and then press
GO to switch on a source.
The Beo4 remote control is avail-
able as an optional extra from your
Bang & Olufsen retailer.
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Examples of source functions …
– Press the number buttons to
enter the program, track or disc
number you want to hear.
– Press or to step through
programs, recordings or tracks.
– Press or to search through a
CD in a single CD player, or step
between CDs in a multi-CD
player.
– Press the yellow button to search
forward through a CD in a multi-
CD player.
– Press the green button to search
backward through a CD in a
multi-CD player
– Press STOP to pause playback.
Press a second time to stop
playback completely
– Press GO to resume playback
– Press • to switch off the link
speaker. Press and hold to switch
off your Bang & Olufsen system
as well.
Refer to the Guide enclosed with
your main system for further
information about source functions.
Additional functions with Beo4 ...
Mute … Pressing the middle of the
volume button while BeoLab 3500
is in standby, corresponds to
touching MUTE • directly on
BeoLab 3500 (see p. 13).
Playback … To start playback on a
secondary video recorder or DVD
player in your main system, press
LIST to display DVD2* (V.TAPE2)
and then GO.
BeoLab 3500 and the main
system in one room …
When BeoLab 3500 is set up in the
same room as the main system, and
you press a source button, such as
RADIO, CD or TV, the sound is
reproduced through the
loudspeakers in the main system.
However, if you want the sound
reproduced through BeoLab 3500
instead, press LIST to display LINK*
and then a source button, such as
RADIO, CD or TV.
BeoLab 3500 must be set to Option 4
as explained in ‘Ready for use …’
(p. 22).
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*NOTE! In order to display these
functions, you must first add them
to the Beo4 list of functions. Refer
to the chapter ‘Customising your
Beo4’ in the Beo4 Guide.

Adjust sound with Beo4
With the Beo4 remote control
you can adjust the sound
coming out of BeoLab 3500.
All sound levels are reset to their
original values when you switch
off BeoLab 3500 – unless you
store them permanently.
All the current sound levels,
including volume level, are
stored simultaneously.
The BeoLab 3500 sound is
adjusted independently from
your main audio or video
system.
To adjust sound volume or mute
the sound …
> Press or to adjust the sound
volume up or down.
> Press the middle of the
button to mute the sound, and
press or to restore the sound.
To adjust speaker balance …
> Press LIST repeatedly until
SPEAKER* is shown in the display.
> Press or to adjust balance
left or right.
To adjust bass, treble or
loudness …
> Press LIST repeatedly until
A.SETUP* (or V.SETUP* for a
video source) is shown in the
display.
> Press GO to be able to adjust
settings.
> Press LIST repeatedly until BASS,
TREBLE or LOUDNESS is shown
in the display.
> Press or to adjust the
setting.
> Press GO to select the setting.
To store sound settings
permanently – making a new
preset start-up sound level …
> Press LIST repeatedly until
S.STORE* is shown in the display.
> Press GO to store settings
permanently.
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*NOTE! In order to display these
functions, you must first add them
to the Beo4 list of functions. Refer
to the chapter ‘Customising your
Beo4’ in the Beo4 Guide.