Soundwave
pfm Member
Hi there was hoping someone might be able to help with an issue whilst I’m waiting for Witchhat to get back to me.
Had 52 serviced by Witchhat a few months ago, on its return It was unboxed and setup but just sat powered up muted and not used due to a new baby and other stuff getting in the way of listening. Anyway, finally got an hour to myself yesterday and noticed an issue. With no source playing and volume at zero, when you turn the balance you get horrible sound similar to when you clean your stylus with some volume and the speakers move in and out an alarming amount just on one channel. This happens at higher volumes too, and still only on one speaker. Weirdly as the balance goes fully to the other clean speaker, you still get the distortion on the faulty channel, but music only comes out the good channel as you’d expect from a fully turned balance pot.
The volume pot is also making a quieter similar sound on one channel and I have heard random static type pops and clicks.
If you play some music it comes through clear on both channels with no added fuzz.
I have double checked all connections and also swapped the 135’s around & speaker inputs to eliminate those 2 areas but the issue just changes from left to right as expected, so think those areas are good.
Is there anything else I can do to see what is at fault? Just leaves the 52 or my supercap as suspects which was serviced by Naim about 3 years ago. Bit puzzled as surely service would have noticed faulty pots and coming only from 1 channel is kinda odd. It certainly wasn’t doing this pre service. Any advice gladly taken whilst I wait for a reply.
Had 52 serviced by Witchhat a few months ago, on its return It was unboxed and setup but just sat powered up muted and not used due to a new baby and other stuff getting in the way of listening. Anyway, finally got an hour to myself yesterday and noticed an issue. With no source playing and volume at zero, when you turn the balance you get horrible sound similar to when you clean your stylus with some volume and the speakers move in and out an alarming amount just on one channel. This happens at higher volumes too, and still only on one speaker. Weirdly as the balance goes fully to the other clean speaker, you still get the distortion on the faulty channel, but music only comes out the good channel as you’d expect from a fully turned balance pot.
The volume pot is also making a quieter similar sound on one channel and I have heard random static type pops and clicks.
If you play some music it comes through clear on both channels with no added fuzz.
I have double checked all connections and also swapped the 135’s around & speaker inputs to eliminate those 2 areas but the issue just changes from left to right as expected, so think those areas are good.
Is there anything else I can do to see what is at fault? Just leaves the 52 or my supercap as suspects which was serviced by Naim about 3 years ago. Bit puzzled as surely service would have noticed faulty pots and coming only from 1 channel is kinda odd. It certainly wasn’t doing this pre service. Any advice gladly taken whilst I wait for a reply.