This morning I woke up to strange sounding music coming from my system (I stream music at night at low levels so my dog doesn’t wake up to outside sounds). I took a peek and noticed the blue power light on the front of one of my M700 amps was off. I turned the button on and there was static noise then a loud pop followed by the smell of overheating electronics. I quickly unhooked everything and took the amp outside. I’m guessing it’s dead.
I’m trying to figure out the next step besides contacting PS Audio. Could the my left speaker have been damaged by the pop? I’m guessing not, because it wasn’t a pop much louder than when I play music loud. Could I wire both speakers into the remaining M700 to 1) confirm the left speaker is okay and 2) listen to everything in mono until I sort out my amp situation?
Sorry to hear that. I hope there is an easy resolution to the problem. I feel your pain. . . my P15 died last month and I just got original packaging in from the mothership and boxed it up. . .OMG that is one heavy beast for an “old man.” It was a bad day or two after it’s failure.
Good idea. The M700 is heading back to boulder in a couple of days (once I battle my way through the clutter in the spare room to the closet with the boxes!).
Unlike a lot of people on this forum I don’t have a spare amplifier in the house. So I’m ordering a relatively inexpensive Marantz power amp for the next few weeks. 60-day return policy so I can return it if it sounds like crap.
That’s good. I have two systems with amplifiers and a spare one made about 60 miles from my house by DALAUDIO–but my main amp is better by a large margin and would be really missed! Hope you have your M700 back in action as soon as possible.
I just checked the time and saw your post come in and wondered what you might be doing at 3in the morning? Yes I know you are wondering the same thing about me, right? Well it was a nature call on my part!
Well here it was 5 a.m. and I generally wake up around this time, an old habit from my working days. . . and also from my days with my old restless red mini dachshund Fiona, rest her soul.
Nice to hear that there is nothing untoward going on in Ohio. Have you been affected by the Tariffs? We on the west coast are seeing prices rise and from what I gather, it will only get worse.
Whoo, it looks like my post has been “decapitated!”
Perhaps I touched a “nerve” or got too close to the truth, which implies that what I said was correct?
Slowly there are increases. I am mostly buying groceries which have been steadily high for some time. I have a feeling the bigger hits of the tariffs will be coming in the next few months.
I see Sonos is saying they’ll be hiking prices due to tariffs, but my cynical self thinks they’re just using it to roll back some of the price cuts they made for goodwill reasons (Era 100, Ray, Ace) after the app debacle. I can’t possibly squeeze any more Sonos gear into my life, so that has little impact on me. (Seriously, I am out of rooms). But in general, with the exception of gasoline, I feel like everything is creeping higher lately. I think Galen is doing his part keeping Moto Guzzi a going concern, so that’s a positive. While the youngest car in my stable is 9 years old with over 150,000 miles. (Don’t ask about the oldest. Or the motorcycle. We run ‘em until the wheels fall off, then put the wheels back on and run ‘em some more…)
Otherwise, Ohio is basically heaven on earth, and don’t let anyone try and fool you otherwise. We have Skyline Chili, Marion’s Piazza, the Wright Brothers, and Carillon Park. Why would anyone choose to live elsewhere? (Other than, you know, for purple mountains majesty or seas…shining seas). (And some loser who writes WAY too much when he posts, but we keep him busy with other things. Mostly.)
I really do love Ohio. . . but I am not happy with food choices here. After living 33 years in Austin I just can’t find pizza, Indian or Mexican or Chinese food that rivals that in Austin, and boy do I wish I could. But I have come to love the changing of the seasons and the lessening of heat, and even the politicians are slightly less crazy here than in Texas and I enjoy the sylvan world my house is located in more and more as the years go by.
I’m sure that your pizzas are great. I’m just bonded to Chicago deep dish style, and Conan’s Savage with whole wheat dough is what I crave, crave, crave. . . nothing like it I’ve ever found.
I make that one too but less often. And I get loving a city’s unique styles. Like, Dayton, for example has a unique style that I’ve never seen anywhere else. Thin crust, low yeast. All the toppings finely ground and literally edge-to-edge. Objectively, it seems pretty terrible, but live here awhile and you become an evangelist for it. (Originally created by Cassano’s Pizza King, but also served by Marion’s Piazza, with a lot more atmosphere. Founder of Cassano’s, Vic Cassano, actually has it on his gravestone that Marion’s stole his idea. Pizza wars are pretty serious here.)
Sorry if it came across like I was pooh-poohing your food preferences. That can be a reflexive response that I’m way too guilty of. We all have our favorites, and no one’s is better than anyone else’s. (Except maybe my wife. I’ve got way better food preferences than she does. it’s a joke)
That’s cool. I just don’t like thin crust pizzas. . . I’ve had all kinds of pizzas here in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland and in Cleveland since I moved back in ‘13. . .I just give up eating pizza because it’s not “pizza” to me, after years at college at the University of Chicago and 33 years in Austin . . . that deep dish, garlicy sauced stuff is my heart’s desire. Not poo-pooing other stuff, it’s just not for me.
Giordano’s. . . in one of their restaurants I had one of the best meals ever with just my Dad, and then later the first date with my late first wife Helen.
