I have a challenge for you!
First off, sorry for the long post - i have no idea where to start so I just included all the details I know.
I had an Onkyo TX-SR605 that began to shut off its audio (but never its video - just sound) for no apparent reason. At first, it was just one channel that would cut out and then it might turn back on a bit later, but it kept getting worse. A power cycle might fix it, but as it got older, the problem got worse until a power cycle might not work at all and I'd have to wait until the next day. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the volume level - sometimes it happened with no sound playing and I only figured it out afterwards. It was unrelated to the activity I was doing at the time and it had nothing whatsoever to do with temperature or operating time - it could happen in 60 degree ambient temp after two minutes or after four hours on a 80 degree day.
I sold the Onkyo since it had always been a pile of junk anyway - the subwoofer output just quit working after less than a year and it could never handle HDMI correctly no matter what settings I tried. I just assumed it was a lemon and I wasn't too sad to wash my hands of it. I just bought a new Sony STR-DH810. Now this new Sony shuts down completely (not just the audio) also randomly. Every feature works when its turned on. I can turn it right back on and it works again. It just did it twice in the last two hours and all I've been doing is silently surfing the internet :-(
Do you think these two problems are related? I mean, I could have just gotten two bad receivers I suppose. Any ideas about the culprit?
Here are my specific setups:
First Setup: Onkyo TX-SR605, pair of Paradigm Titan v.3 speakers with absolutely no wires touching or anything obviously wrong (though one speaker was repaired once by the vendor I bought them from after my cat knocked one off its stand and something was loose inside - I can't remember problems before that but the powering down didn't start till a quite a while afterwards and it seemed like a simple repair), Hsu STF-1 sub connected in series with the speakers (due to the Onkyo's failed sub output), Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box connected via HDMI + coax audio (since the Onkyo couldn't reliably handle HDMI audio), homemade media PC connected via HDMI + optical, PS2 connected via composite, Sony SACD player connected via component and optical. Video output is HDMI to the TV. All components are plugged into a Belkin Pure AV power conditioner which lights up to indicate that that everything power-wise is fine.
Current setup: Mostly the same but now I can plug the sub into the receiver directly and HDMI works (halleluiah) so I have the PC and a new cable box (a Samsung SMT-H3270, very spiffy I might add) plugged right in via HDMI. I ditched the Sony SACD player because it has started to make a bit more noise than I like anyway and I made double sure no speaker wires were crossed.
Any suggestions as to what could be causing these shut-downs?
First off, sorry for the long post - i have no idea where to start so I just included all the details I know.
I had an Onkyo TX-SR605 that began to shut off its audio (but never its video - just sound) for no apparent reason. At first, it was just one channel that would cut out and then it might turn back on a bit later, but it kept getting worse. A power cycle might fix it, but as it got older, the problem got worse until a power cycle might not work at all and I'd have to wait until the next day. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the volume level - sometimes it happened with no sound playing and I only figured it out afterwards. It was unrelated to the activity I was doing at the time and it had nothing whatsoever to do with temperature or operating time - it could happen in 60 degree ambient temp after two minutes or after four hours on a 80 degree day.
I sold the Onkyo since it had always been a pile of junk anyway - the subwoofer output just quit working after less than a year and it could never handle HDMI correctly no matter what settings I tried. I just assumed it was a lemon and I wasn't too sad to wash my hands of it. I just bought a new Sony STR-DH810. Now this new Sony shuts down completely (not just the audio) also randomly. Every feature works when its turned on. I can turn it right back on and it works again. It just did it twice in the last two hours and all I've been doing is silently surfing the internet :-(
Do you think these two problems are related? I mean, I could have just gotten two bad receivers I suppose. Any ideas about the culprit?
Here are my specific setups:
First Setup: Onkyo TX-SR605, pair of Paradigm Titan v.3 speakers with absolutely no wires touching or anything obviously wrong (though one speaker was repaired once by the vendor I bought them from after my cat knocked one off its stand and something was loose inside - I can't remember problems before that but the powering down didn't start till a quite a while afterwards and it seemed like a simple repair), Hsu STF-1 sub connected in series with the speakers (due to the Onkyo's failed sub output), Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box connected via HDMI + coax audio (since the Onkyo couldn't reliably handle HDMI audio), homemade media PC connected via HDMI + optical, PS2 connected via composite, Sony SACD player connected via component and optical. Video output is HDMI to the TV. All components are plugged into a Belkin Pure AV power conditioner which lights up to indicate that that everything power-wise is fine.
Current setup: Mostly the same but now I can plug the sub into the receiver directly and HDMI works (halleluiah) so I have the PC and a new cable box (a Samsung SMT-H3270, very spiffy I might add) plugged right in via HDMI. I ditched the Sony SACD player because it has started to make a bit more noise than I like anyway and I made double sure no speaker wires were crossed.
Any suggestions as to what could be causing these shut-downs?
