ARGG: LSiC Crossover broken
I just received my ebay purchased LSiC speaker and was excited to hear the sweet music.
But my joy turned to sorrow as it turned out to be DOA. After e-mailing the seller, I decided to take the 4 screws off the binding posts. To my dismay, the crossover board was completely broken off the 4 support posts. The soldered speaker wires were hanging in mid air. In fact, two posts where still attached to the board and completelt sheared off the plastic binding post. I read that others have seen this type of damage before. Are these crossover boards that fragile??
So what to do...???
But my joy turned to sorrow as it turned out to be DOA. After e-mailing the seller, I decided to take the 4 screws off the binding posts. To my dismay, the crossover board was completely broken off the 4 support posts. The soldered speaker wires were hanging in mid air. In fact, two posts where still attached to the board and completelt sheared off the plastic binding post. I read that others have seen this type of damage before. Are these crossover boards that fragile??
So what to do...???
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It must have been dropped very hard.
What did the seller say?
Can you solder the two leads back in place and glue the pegs back to the board?"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche -
All four corners of the circuit board are broken off. Two of the four plastic standoffs our broke clean off withe their respective corners of the circuit board. The other side which as the speaker wire connections had the two corners snapped off, but the plastic standoff's are broken only at the top where the screws attache to the circuit board. This breakage also took the outer two speaker connection circuit traces/soldered joint with it. I could unsolder the two leads and reattach to the circuit board bypassing the break.
My concerns then would be reattaching the plastic standoff's and verifying that no other damage to the crossover components or speakers themselves. The cabinet itself looks undamaged and is it good shape.
As for the seller, I have not yet been able to talk to him, but I have reason to believe that he will get back to me. I did send e-mail to Polk Parts and have asked for an estimate for a new crossover and binding post plate. Still waiting on that number.
In researching this issue, it seems that other people of experienced the same issue to one degree or another. The inductors are fairly heavy and the board seems rather flimsy, so I can see how any severe rough handling could cause
some stress fractures. The unit was not shipped in the original box, but seemed like it was packed fairley well in bubble wrap and those damn styro peanuts. If it was the result of rough handling during shipment, I would have expected that the box or case would have exhibited some type distress. I noticed no damage to the shipping box nor the speaker shell itself. In any case, I am a little disappointed and don't believe that a higher end product such as this should exhibit this type of weakness.
I am not sure what the resolution will be but I have a non-functioning speaker that probably would have been under warranty if I bought it new. But they closed down all of the stores around here that carried the LSI line of Polk's, so no matter what, I would have had to order it and have it shipped. I am wondering how many other people have had similar issues?
