Impedance is a non-issue and no, you did not damage the RCA jacks by plugging into the wrong ports on the receiver.
There is of course a chance that the Squeezebox has failed, but this is not a common failure so it may be worth spending a little more time investigating before you send it in for replacement. The best test to do at this point, as Opaqueice suggested is the voltmeter - Radioshack has em for $10. That is the only way to know what the output level is in any absolute sense. To generate a full-scale test tone, reset squeezebox and press "3" on the welcome screen. You need to measure the AC voltage between the center of the RCA connector and its outside sleeve. It should read 1.8 to 1.9 volts AC. A couple other things to check: Is your RCA cable OK? It is not unheard of to have both left and right channels bad. Can you try a pair of headphones in the headphone jack? Do you have any other speakers, eg computer speakers with a 1/8" jack? Again, it would also be good to test the s/pdif output somehow. If you also get low volume at the s/pdif output then it is _definitely_ not a hardware issue, and is something to do with volume settings, replaygain, or your ripping process. If s/pdif is OK but the analog levels are low, then you probably have a bad squeezebox. But as I said this is a particularly unlikely failure mode. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40980 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
