Whats your worst experience with a receiver?
Joey Ward
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in Electronics
Two years ago my vintage Realistic sta-820 was starting to get hot when it was on, thought it was just normal for the age. A few weeks later while I was playing the receiver I heard this pop sound and the recevier stop playing and flames were coming from the top vent about 4 to 6 inches high. I guess I was lucky to be there to put the fire out.
Joey Ward
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By any chance, was PFB (or BlueFox) over for a listening session at the time?
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First HDMI AVR I had the HDMI board went out. At the time I had no idea what was going on. So I'm checking connections, changed cables until I find out that a lot of Onkyo's had the same problems!@#$%Anaheim Hills CA,
HT 5.1: Anthem MRX 720 / BDP-Denon DBT1713UD / Polkaudio LSiM703 / W4S mAmp's / Polkaudio LSiM706c / Polkaudio LSiM702F/X's / SVS PC12-NSD / Panasonic TC P55VT30
2 Channel: Rogue RP-5 / WireWorld Electra power cord / Marantz TT-15S1/ Ortofon - Quintet Black MC / Marantz NA8005 DAC / W4S mAmp's / Synology DS 216+ll-4TB / Polkaudio LSiM703 -
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This guy was humping from his attic some Bose 601s. I knew what they were. I did the refoam and some clean up work and had some great speakers for some time. Also up in this dusty attic was a Sansui receiver and I asked how much for that .He said $20 if it worked. We plugged it in and there was so much dust that real flames started to shoot out the top vents and I unplugged the thing and tossed it to the curb. The drapes were close to this and we did almost have a house fire.2chl- Adcom GFA- 555-Onkyo P-3150v pre/amp- JVC-QL-A200 tt- Denon 1940 ci cdp- Adcom GFS-6 -Modded '87 SDA 2Bs - Dynamat Ext.- BH-5- X-Overs VR-3, RDO-194 tweeters, Larry's Rings, Speakon/Neutrik I/C- Cherry stain tops Advent Maestros,Ohm model E
H/T- Toshiba au40" flat- Yamaha RX- V665 avr- YSD-11 Dock- I-Pod- Klipsch #400HD Speaker set-
Bdrm- Nikko 6065 receiver- JBL -G-200s--Pioneer 305 headphones--Sony CE375-5 disc -
Onkyo Tx Sr 705...sounded great, lots of power, but ran very hot in 7ch mode, it would set off an internal alarm. Also it would lose some of the Audyssey settings with even a brief power outage. It would then run hot again until I would do a factory reset or rerun audessey. I bought this unit used for quite a big chunk of money at the time, and was very disappointed after discovering the issues.Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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Your right Randy it was a bad because I didn't have any marshmallows. LOL no more 10 dollar dealsboston1450 wrote: »Holy Smokes LOL where is the marshmallows
Thats a bad day
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He was, but ran out the door when the fire started...LOLteekay0007 wrote: »By any chance, was PFB (or BlueFox) over for a listening session at the time?
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I bought the rxv590....its going into the garage or on the bay.I bought a Yamaha rxv-563.
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Worst experience ?
Owning one. Aside from my old B&k 307 AVR, no other receiver I've heard comes close to a good integrated or separates. Music wise anyway, HT you have no choice but to do receivers as all the decent pre/pro's are fairly costly.HT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's
