[Hidden-tech] Stereo Guru?

[davidk]

If I might inject my 2 cents worth of opinion, I would suggest just 
getting a new surround sound receiver.   The primary reasons for doing 
this is that the new designs are many times more efficient and therefore 
use less power and are good for the environment.   The secondary reason 
is of the technological advances that have come around in the 10 year or 
more that you've owned this receiver.  ( Think old analog cell phone 
from the year 2000 vs the year 2008 apple Iphone.   Can do 100 times the 
stuff and uses less power to do it!)   I would be willing to bet (and I 
am not a betting man) that the sound you'd get out of a new receiver 
would be many times the quality of what you get currently, and if it 
doesn't sound good, then just run it through some of the built in 
filters that come standard with most receivers. 

And of course, since you use it for business, write it off :-)
lol!

Good luck
David



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> Hi David,
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> I'm not an electronics technician, so someone else may have a more 
> technical solution/explanation. I also had a similar experience with 
> one of my previous systems a while back. In that case, it turned out 
> that the speakers were going. Fix was to have Boston Acoustics send me 
> replacement speaker parts. Try plugging some other speakers into the 
> system to see if the problem goes away. 
> In another case with an older stereo amp, whenever I turned the volume 
> knob, it would make the audio crackle. That was solved by working some 
> WD40 into the knob spindle while turning it back and fourth. That was 
> a Macintosh. I guess newer systems are all buttons, eh? Well, I hope 
> it's just your speakers and not some transistor or other electronic part.
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> On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:56 PM, DAVID F. FARKAS wrote:
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>> No the usual computer question, but I figured there must be some 
>> stereo / sound geeks here too.
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>> I have an older surround sound stereo in my office / bedroom. Pioneer 
>> VSX3800 with a CD changer. It has two sets of front speakers and rear 
>> speakers. I often leave it on 24/7 for background music or running 
>> meditation kinds of CDs.
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>> Recently it has developed a background hiss and random, veryloud, 
>> popping heard throught he speakers (not, in the box.) If it was a 
>> vacuum tube unit (dating himself... which is better than no dates at 
>> all) I would say it was a power supply vacuum tube... that kind of 
>> sound but harder / louder.
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>> All devices seem to work fine and the sound is still great, with this 
>> new stuff over it. But, it's so loud I can't use the system
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>> I have disassembled the case. Blown out dust. Wiggled cables. Cast 
>> out ghosts and demons... all to no avail.
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>> Ideas?
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>> Please respond off list to keep the mods happy about not having long 
>> non-computer tech conversations on the list.
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>> Thanx.
>> David
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