I would say that - given what I've already written - its automatic
though you may have to manually power up from standby as I had to do.
I'm thinking of getting a second pair for the lounge, the MM1's are
impressive though they do have some competition from Keff, Focal and a
couple of others which I'm going to chase up in a moment.
On 1/12/2017 10:29 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote:
Jamie,
I've been looking for the answer I once got to your concern about the heat in the
right speaker. I can't find the instruction for how to have the speaker turn off
when the computer shuts down, but I now think B&W made it automatic. Please
feel free to test this and, if I'm wrong, please re-post. I don't think I have
more, but I'd double-check.
Meanwhile, I've found on my Windows 7 system where you can find settings for
the MM1 speakers.
Via the Windows search field, go to "devices and printers" and arrow down
through the list. Assuming you find MM1 there, as I do on my system, right-click for your
options.
I also find my MM1s in the " device manager" list. On my windows 7 system, I type "driver"
into the Windows search field and arrow down through the results. Once I find "device manager," I press
enter. I then press tab, and then I'm in a tree view. I press s for 'sound" to get close to the sound
devices, where I press enter. I then arrow down to MM1. At that point I either press enter or right-click. (I
can't remember which as I write.) Here, you confirm whether the drives are up to date.
If you don't find your MM1s in these two places, here are instructions I received
from B&W all the way back in 2012. The man who wrote knew I was using a
screenreader, and so he took care to give directions with which I could work.
However, I don't know if his instructions still apply, since I haven't needed to
use them since. My system then was XP. The rest of this post is his words:
If you have the front of the master speaker facing you, there should be 3
cables coming out the back on the bottom of the speaker. With the front of the
speaker facing you, reach behind the speaker on the right side. The power cable
will be coming out of the right side, on the back. If you follow this cable
towards you, into the bottom of the speaker you will hit the power jack where
the cable plugs into. Although the power cable can be a little difficult to
remove I suggest unplugging this end instead of the end that plugs into the
wall outlet.
Once the power cord is unplugged hold in the power button. You can find it on
the left side of the speaker, where the end of the metal band that wraps around
the speaker runs into the cloth grille. You should hear it click when pressed
in. Now reinsert the power cord on the bottom as you hold in the power button.
Once the power cord is plugged in all the way and you let go of the power
button the light should turn white.
Now it is a matter of going into your device manager and looking for device with a
yellow exclamation point under “Unknown Devices” then right-clicking on it and
choosing “Update Driver Software”. Now choose to manually select the driver
software from the directory where you installed the MM-1 Programmer. The directory
name is usually “C:\Program Files\Bowers & Wilkins\MM-1 Programmer”.
I’m a little unclear as to what the next steps would be for Windows XP, but
after you choose to manually install the drivers and then select the MM-1
Programmer Directory then click “Next” it should ask you if you’re sure you
want to install the drivers although they are not digitally signed. You will
want to select “Install anyway”. After you select that then the drivers should
install and you should be able to go back into the MM-1 Programmer application
and then update the firmware with no problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Kelly
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 12:39 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: B&W MM1's Observations
Dane your comments and contributions are always much valued.
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2017 4:31 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: B&W MM1's Observations
You’re making a huge mountain out of an absolute molehill.
Firstly you couldn’t have looked everywhere for the update tool, I wrote about this
yesterday I think it was, I found the tool along with associated documentation
exactly where the people at B&W said it would be, in the Archives section of
the site.
Why is it there? Because B&W will not be releasing any further updates to the
MM1 Speaker system, “if it aint’ broke then don’t fix it”.
I even told you how to run a simple test to see if your MM1 system had the
latest firmware update running and I repeat, if you press the “Power
Off/Standby” button on the remote control and your MM1’s go into “Standby” mode
straight away then you have the latest firmware installed.
If you press then “Standby” button and the MM1’s take some time to power down
then you need to download the updater.
My system has the latest firmware update installed - according to the test
procedure I outlined above - and I’m willing to bet that the same will apply to
your model given the update was released nearly 2 years ago - march 2015 -.
So do enjoy your speakers please! <smile>.
On 12 Jan 2017, at 12:44 pm, Jamie Kelly <otrja...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ideally they should power on automatically. Well I have looked high and low on the
B&W pages and archive and can not find the links to download the PC software to
update the firmware anyware. Manuals and other documents no problem.
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2017 11:15 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: B&W MM1's Observations
Someone on list mentioned that they managed to get their B&W MM1’s to go into
standby mode when the computer shut down.
I’m running my MM1’s through my Mac’s USB port and I have noticed that - by default -
they turn to standby mode when the computer itself is shut down however one has to
remember to power up the MM1’s, its a bit disconcerting to turn on and boot your
computer not to hear any speech from the Voiceover Screen Reader when the computer is
booted, thankfully I have a Braille display which I use frequently so it didn’t take
me long to spot the problem <smile>.
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