I tend to leave my stereo on while I'm gone, as I like some music playing in the background when I return home.
As usual, today, I had my Squeezebox 3 playing the ambient station "Bluemars" on Squeezenetwork when I left for an appointment. The volume was set to maybe 60-70 db of sound level. Basically, background or just above background. My McIntosh amp was only producing about 1/10th of a watt or less. When I returned today, I could hear a roar from outside my house. So I hurriedly went inside - One channel of my McIntosh amp had the meter holding steady at nearly 200 watts, and the other channel has a steady 10 watts. The noise was deafening - it wasn't music - it was like white noise with bass mixed in. I thought at first my old Sansui receiver that's subbing for my pre-amp (while my McIntosh is getting a tuneup) had gone on the fritz. A quick check of other functions (AM, FM, phono, etc) revealed that the source of the sonic bedlam was the Squeezebox itself. Changing stations didn't stop the sound, nor did raising or lowering the volume control. I tried powering the unit on and off with the remote. The noise did not go away. I had been listening via analog connection, so I kicked my HT decoder on. There was no output whatsoever from the unit's digital co-ax output. Yet the analog outputs were still blasting out the white noise. So I unplugged the Squeezebox, and replugged it in a few minutes later. Mysteriously, the sound on the Squeezebox returned to normal. That was about 6 pm - I've had the unit playing continuously since then - it's been performing normally. Do I have a defective Squeezebox? Does it need to be repaired or replaced?? I really don't trust it now, and I definitely WON'T leave it on while I'm out ever again. I'm afraid of damaging my almost irreplaceable Klipsch CF-4s. I -- Cleve Two-channel system; McIntosh MC2205 amplifier McIntosh MAC4100 receiver Klipsch CF-4 speakers Denon DR-M3 Cassette Deck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cleve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19309 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
