lonergan2468
Well-known member
For the last two days I kept hearing a clicking sound from my system. I thought it was the pre amp as it has muted frequently for a few seconds by itself. Then just click sounds, and no muting.
I saw smoke and fire between the pre amp and the power amp directly underneath. Still thinking it wads the pre I immediately switched it off, took it out looked underneath, no grill. It was the poweramp that was underneath the pre, I could see the flames through the top grills.
Just wondering why it cooked, surely it should have shut down and prevent further damage.
I went back to using two power amps ( I was using 4 8000M in the system, and my quest z speakers) We noticed that there was in fact an improvement in sound, and at that stage that was just single wire mode. Perhaps the power amp was faulty for quite a while and I did not realise this.I am back to bi wire mode as the monoblocks have two speaker output terminals. Sounds better. Prior to the amp blowing I did notice that the bass was a bit bloated, and the sound not centred correctly. The faulty amp was one driving the bass.
Looks like I will sell the one redundant remaining power amp, and get a quote on the cooked one for repair.
I saw smoke and fire between the pre amp and the power amp directly underneath. Still thinking it wads the pre I immediately switched it off, took it out looked underneath, no grill. It was the poweramp that was underneath the pre, I could see the flames through the top grills.
Just wondering why it cooked, surely it should have shut down and prevent further damage.
I went back to using two power amps ( I was using 4 8000M in the system, and my quest z speakers) We noticed that there was in fact an improvement in sound, and at that stage that was just single wire mode. Perhaps the power amp was faulty for quite a while and I did not realise this.I am back to bi wire mode as the monoblocks have two speaker output terminals. Sounds better. Prior to the amp blowing I did notice that the bass was a bit bloated, and the sound not centred correctly. The faulty amp was one driving the bass.
Looks like I will sell the one redundant remaining power amp, and get a quote on the cooked one for repair.
Last edited: