Hello Dane Yes, I've done that. They are trying to tell me that I need to go to Yamaha as this was a sealed unit. But I'm not having that; they either replace the supply, replace the entire unit or give us a refund and I'll go somewhere else.
I'm disappointed as I said in my previous message because of the reason this was bought now. The specs of the machine look amazingly good, and currently it's a brick; all be it a nice looking brick. :) The unit is constructed within a black teak case, and the top unit is touch-sensitive so that, for instance, if you press lightly on the top for 3 seconds, the display goes dim and it goes into power-saver mode. I'm not sure whether DAB+ is available over here now because the UK model does have DAB+ on it. So possibly it's a new standard being trialed because it seems to use that by default. I am going to scan the manual if I can find a way to make our scanner work. it doesn't seem to like Lion so I may have to go Windows. But currently we're frustrated because the machine is sitting there and we cannot use it. As for the supply, it must, Gordon thinks, be an intelligent supply because the connector is a 30-pin connector and it's about the size of an HDMI connector. The external antenna uses an S-connector similar to that which our satellite box uses. I'm not sure how it works for FM radio but that looks like a band3 antenna like a dipole for digital reception. I suppose it must use that for FM as well. There are digital audio sockets on the back, I presume they are outputs but I'm not sure. Anyway we'll have to see what happens but it's looking likely that we'll be stuck until at least next week. Lynne On 22 Nov 2011, at 23:02, Dane Trethowan wrote: Sorry to hear about the power supply, I had something similar happen with a Yamaha Surround-Sound system I recently bought, the microphone for the auto calibration feature was missing, a call to my local electrical store where I bought the product set in chain the motion of events which lead to me receiving a replacement microphone in the mail so perhaps you could contact the Amazon seller concerned and tell them what's happened. I have the model of yamaha desktop Hi-Fi below the one you have, that is the TSX-130 and it has a built-in power supply, that is to say it has a power cord protruding from the rear left side. I can understand why Yamaha chose to use an external supply, firstly given the size of the unit, obviously if the unit doesn't have the supply built-in then Yamaha can put more electronics into the same size. seems lots of company's are opting for this approach, my HP 8500a+ printer has an external supply and its enormous! even bigger than the HP power supply that handles my HP Multi Media PC Notebook and that's getting to house-brick size. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
