Broken(?) audio receiver
The other day I went to listen to a new 7" on my record player, but as soon as I hit "power" on my reciever and it was about to play the jams, I heard a small *pop* then it (the receiver) turned off. Press power...repeat...
Has this happened to anyone else out there?
C'mon! I only fix people's computers, so I don't know much about stereo equipment. I need help. HELP!!!!
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i'm pretty tech challenged.
but, isn't there turntables etc on Howe? maybe they can help?
Give it some ice cream! That makes me work better!
it sounds like a short - but what would i know? you could try jiggling the wires.
there is a place here that makes homemade Guinness ice cream. maybe it'd like some of that?
heather
Thanks for the really great advice.
Maybe that will work for you guys next time your computer is broken. Just put ice-cream on it. Yeah.
hey now!
i was *trying* to be helpful.
sheesh! ;)
"Maybe that will work for you guys next time your computer is broken. Just put ice-cream on it."
oh. you mean i wasn't supposed to do that?
leon,
this happened to my mom's receiver once. i think there was a blown fuse or something. she might have paid someone to fix it. either way, it didn't get better on its own. i think it needed semi-professional attention.
In all seriousness, there is the smallest chance that maybe if I took a breif look at it, I might actually be able to help you. However, it's more likely that I'll look over it and go "Hmm...looks like it's broken" and that's it. However, I have tinkered with electronics and sound stuff and everything in the past and actually gotten things to work, so you never know. I'm not claiming to be any kind of expert, and not even a novice, really.
I thought about it some more, and things that I think that could have happened:
1. Fuse, like Alice said. Seems most likely.
2. Short somewhere in the output or input. If this is the case, which seems almost just as likely (at least from where I sit right now) it's possible that this could be fixed with a dust brush and maybe a soldering iron and some solder. Of course, even if that's the problem, it might not be the case.
3. You looked into the future and saw that it was going to break, and you saw what my original advice was, and thought that you'd stop the problem before it started, and so you actually put ice cream in it. If that's what happened, well...you probably shouldn't have done that and it's time for a new one.
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