Bang and Olufsen Beolab 3500 Owners manual

BeoLab 3500

User’s guide

The BeoLab 3500 gives your main Bang &
Olufsen system an extra dimension. Now you
can play any source you like in your main
system and listen to it – via your BeoLink
installation – in the room with your BeoLab

3500.

The BeoLab 3500 can be operated both locally
and with remote control. With remote control,
however, the possibilities are enhanced and
you are given the full benefit of your BeoLab

3500.

You can control the daily playback functions in
your main system, make the BeoLab 3500 wake
you up in the morning, using the Beo4 remote
control.

Whether you hang it on the wall or place it
standing on its own in the specially designed
stand (optional extra), the slim and elegant
BeoLab 3500 will fit easily into any room in
your house where you want music.

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BEFORE YOU START…

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CONTENTS

The separate Setting-up guide enclosed with
the BeoLab 3500 describes in detail how to
install the system (BeoLink or MCL) and make
the BeoLab 3500 ready for use.

Note: Bang & Olufsen offers two different
BeoLink distribution systems: Master Link (ML)
and Master Control Link (MCL). Your BeoLab
3500 can be used in either system.

4 What can BeoLab 3500 do for me…

..Music in other rooms

6 Beo4 remote operation

6 Using the Beo4 remote control
8 Access all your sources in your main A/V

system with Beo4

10 Adjust and make sound settings in the

BeoLab 3500 with Beo4

12 Make a Wake-up Timer for BeoLab 3500

only

14 Close-up operation

14 BeoLab 3500 and Timer play – switching on

automatically

15 How to get and mute sound in

BeoLab 3500
16 Read the display on BeoLab 3500
17 Choose which information to display on

the BeoLab 3500

18 BeoLab 3500 status displays

20 Beolink 1000 remote control

Using the Beolink 1000

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MUSIC IN OTHER ROOMS

The BeoLab 3500 gives your main Bang &
Olufsen system an extra dimension:

• It enables you to listen to any source you
like from your main room system in the
room with your BeoLab 3500.

• It enables you to control a number of
functions in your main system from the
room with your BeoLab 3500 – using the
Beo4 remote control. All remote operation
are, though, also possible with a Beolink
1000 remote control, see pages 20-21.

All you have to do is connect the BeoLab 3500
to your BeoLink installation, and your main
Bang & Olufsen system can be used in that
room as well.

The two active speakers in the BeoLab 3500
will give you the full benefit of the high­quality stereo sound produced by your main
Bang & Olufsen system.

This guide explains how…

Your main Bang & Olufsen system and your
BeoLab 3500 must be interconnected by a
BeoLink (ML or MCL) installation. You will
then be able to listen to any source from your
main audio-, video-, or AV system (and even to
control the source) in the room with your
BeoLab 3500.

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Using the Beo4 remote control, you can:

• Switch on any source you like in your main
Bang & Olufsen Audio/Video system via the
BeoLab 3500.

• Operate all the daily playback functions for
the source that is currently playing via the
BeoLab 3500.

• Adjust the sound in your BeoLab 3500
speakers.

• Make a Wake-up Timer on your BeoLab

3500.

Operating the BeoLab 3500 close-up, you can:

• Switch on to the source that was last playing
in your main Bang & Olufsen system, or
listen-in on a source that is currently
playing.

• Include the BeoLab 3500 in a Timer Play
programming made on your main room A/V
system, that is, switching on at a certain
time to a certain source, as programmed on
your main room system.

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BEO4 REMOTE OPERATION

The Beo4 remote control* gives you the full
benefit of your BeoLab 3500.

When you operate the BeoLab 3500 close-up,
you will either switch on a source that was last
playing in your main Bang & Olufsen system,
or you will listen-in on a source that is
currently playing.

The Beo4 remote control enables you to switch
on to the exact source you wish to listen to
from your main Bang & Olufsen system (audio
or video), and to control the daily playback
functions for that source.

The daily playback functions are carried out
just as if you were operating your main system
directly, using the Beo4 remote control.

With Beo4, you are given the opportunity to
make a Wake-up Timer on BeoLab 3500 which
is executed separatedly, regardless of whether
you have included BeoLab 3500 in a Timer
Play programming or not – which, via your
main room system, switches all linked products
on automatically at a certain time to a certain
source.

Furthermore, the Beo4 is the key to adjusting
the sound for the BeoLab 3500 speakers
separately.

See how on the next few pages…

Any operation you carry out using the Beo4
remote control is received by your BeoLab

3500. Via your BeoLink installation, the
BeoLab 3500 communicates your instruction to
your main Bang & Olufsen system.

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BANG & OLUFSEN

TV LIGHT RADIO

SAT DVD CD

V TAPE RECORD A TAPE

789

456

TEXT

0

MENU

123

LIST EXIT

STOP

GO

*Note: The Beo4 remote control is available as an optional
extra from your Bang & Olufsen dealer.

Audio sources…

Switches on the radio

Starts the CD player

Starts the tape recorder

Press LIST to display PHONO*

Press to start the record player

Video sources...

Switches on the TV

Switches on to satellite TV

Starts the video tape recorder

Press to step through your programs
or to step from track to track

Alternatively, key in the exact
program, track number or disc
number you want, e.g. track no 10

Press to pause your audio or video
tape recorder, CD or record player

(You may need to press STOP twice
to stop the VTR completely before
winding)

For further instructions, see the far
right of the next page

*Note: In order to display PHONO on Beo4, you
have to add the function to the Beo4 list of
functions, please refer to the Beo4 user's guide
and the chapter, Customising your Beo4.

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RADIO

CD

A TAPE

LIST

GO

TV

SAT

V TAPE

1
0

STOP

ACCESS MAIN ROOM…

Via your BeoLab 3500, you can switch on any
source (audio/video) you like from your main
Bang & Olufsen system and listen to it on the
BeoLab 3500 speakers.

While the source is playing, you can switch
programs, listen to specific tracks, stop and
resume playback, search and wind.

To switch off the BeoLab 3500, simply press
the red standby button • on the Beo4 briefly.
If you keep pressing the standby button for 2
seconds, you will switch off both the BeoLab
3500 and your main Bang & Olufsen system.

Note: The functions mentioned on this page
are only available from your BeoLab 3500 in so
far as the source in question is included in your
main Bang & Olufsen system – and provided
the source supports the function.

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