Yep that's very unfortunate. Fortunately my Yamaha TSX-130 has been working flawlessly for 15 months or so now. The other nice thing is that I was able to source my machine locally so if anything had gone wrong then getting a replacement or the machine looked at wasn't going to be too much of a problem, I don't want to knock Amazon or online buying but this does show a glaring problem in the Online Shopping thing <smile>.
Anyway I hope you get satisfaction one way or the other and let me assure you you're not the only one to buy defective products, my Zoom H1 for example has a well-known fault, the battery will drain when the unit is turned off, its something to do with faulty capacitors but as I never leave batteries in the Zoom for a prolonged period of time anyway and as I use Rechargeable batteries then this problem doesn't inconvenience me all that much. On 25/12/2011, at 12:31 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > 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 I'm told, will soon be superseded anyway by the TSX-150.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> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= 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> ---------------------------------------
