As suggested in the title, the Boom was completely unresponsive. I
tested the power supply and it was showing one or two volts flickering
in and out, so seems to have failed. I found a replacement power supply,
confirmed the 12v, but still the Boom was dead. This was odd, maybe the
power supply in its failure mode had taken out the Boom.. I dismantled
the Boom (first time - it has been incredibly reliable for many years
now) and found some mess around several lines of solder points, most of
the board was very clean however. I guess this was residual flux, that
should have been cleaned away during manufacture, one of the affected
areas was the power input connector line. I cleaned this away with
isopropyl alcohol plugged it in again, and it fired up perfectly! Sounds
even better than before :cool:!

Just posting this to record the learning, sometimes the problems are so
simple and yet the thing gets chucked..

I have attempted to attach some photos (its not obvious to me that these
will appear though as I write this). 

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