Touch Down

What a POS…mine got smoked…literally when I was calibrating my sub and I happed to have my zone 2 selected to the same CD source.  I still wonder if I have to assume some blame here, but not after opening and looking inside the SS4–it’s cheaply built.  Anyway, this sent a lot of low frequency (20-100Hz) signals not only to my subs, but to my zone 2 output.  Now none of the 4 zone 2 speakers were turned up (no audio output), but all 4 were selected via the SS4.  Soon there was that smell of magic smoke.  Shut everthing down and finally noticed that my zone2 speakers weren’t working.  Checked everything out and sure enough, the SS4 was fried—it’s cheap plastic innards were melted, 2 sets of the internal wires were scorched to the point that they weren’t even connected to their outputs anymore.  The “protection” switch was on, but it’s just a cheap resistor which didn’t stand a chance.  IMHO, avoid the Sonance SS4 at all costs.

Interesting piece about the happening in a galaxy far, far away at HDBeat. Allegedly to cover the time gap between ep III and ep IV. No mention if jarjar’s kids will be in it or not.