Hello everybody Recently, a member of our household bought a Yamaha desktop audio system for my other half. Unfortunately, we are now in a situation where we're without the unit, owing to a design flaw which Yamaha have acknowledged.
For whatever reason, the tuner on a very few models is suspect. Typical of our luck, ours is one of those which is affected. We have the TSX-140 which, I'm told, will soon be superseded anyway by the TSX-150. All of these models share a design flaw in the tuner which, in certain circumstances, can cause the tuner to get stuck in tuning mode, affecting both FM and DAB/DAB+. It's as though the unit its receiving no signal; and the only fix for this problem is to return the unit to Yamaha for replacement or repair. Unfortunately, ours went wrong just before the inconvenience which is Christmas. So although we could use is as a CD player and iPod dock, we've been advised not to do so. Another flaw with these machines is that occasionally, the CD motor can stick resulting in stuck or severely scratched CDs. That's what the technical support agent at Yamaha told me on the phone yesterday. Ours hasn't manifested that problem; but we've been told to watch out for it when we get our unit, hopefully, replaced. It's less than a month old; so I would expect them to replace the entire unit. All this is really unfortunate, because in terms of audio output the units are excellent. Each speaker consists of its own tweeter and woofer, built into unique acoustic chambers so as to produce the best possible audio. My one criticism of the TSX range is the cabinet itself. It's made from what looks like a thin chipboard like material. Not anywhere close to, for instance, the old Akkai unit we had back in the 1970s which was built into a solid teak cabinet. It too used unique acoustic chambers for its 4-way dual speaker system. Obviously that unit didn't have the same digital amplification circuitry as the Yamaha does, nor did it have digital radio which didn't even exist in those days. But it did have a very good FM tuner and dual cassette decks. But I'm babbling; let's just hope that next time we don't get one of those defective models. Lynne ======================================= 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> ---------------------------------------
