Hi all,
I've bought some time ago a secondhand 30SL G2 (D revision). After some months (yes, my fault to not have checked this before) I've found a problem. Pre is working perfectly apart from the balance, which has a very strange behaviour. If I balance sound towards the left side (for example), and the front panel led cursor goes towards the left side (i.e. the correct direction), there is a very very very very little change in sound balance towards right (i.e. on the wrong direction). Reached the end of the balance control, the sound balance switch completely to the right (i.e. on the opposite with regards to the indication on the front panel led). Same behaviour both with the remote and with the front buttons. And of course same behaviour with viceversa directions.
All cables have been double cheked and are ok.
I've contacted my local Spectral distributor (I live in Italy) but since I've bought my 30SL directly in US they refused to give me any assistance, even if I clearly said that of course I'm willing to pay for the repair. I've tried to contact Spectral via mail with no luck (I'm not english mothertounge so I prefer to write).
All in all, it seems to be a very stupid problem, most probably related to the micro controller and not to the analog circuitry, I can easily live with it, but I would like to repair the pre.
Can you give me any reccomendations or suggestions?
regards
mike
I've bought some time ago a secondhand 30SL G2 (D revision). After some months (yes, my fault to not have checked this before) I've found a problem. Pre is working perfectly apart from the balance, which has a very strange behaviour. If I balance sound towards the left side (for example), and the front panel led cursor goes towards the left side (i.e. the correct direction), there is a very very very very little change in sound balance towards right (i.e. on the wrong direction). Reached the end of the balance control, the sound balance switch completely to the right (i.e. on the opposite with regards to the indication on the front panel led). Same behaviour both with the remote and with the front buttons. And of course same behaviour with viceversa directions.
All cables have been double cheked and are ok.
I've contacted my local Spectral distributor (I live in Italy) but since I've bought my 30SL directly in US they refused to give me any assistance, even if I clearly said that of course I'm willing to pay for the repair. I've tried to contact Spectral via mail with no luck (I'm not english mothertounge so I prefer to write).
All in all, it seems to be a very stupid problem, most probably related to the micro controller and not to the analog circuitry, I can easily live with it, but I would like to repair the pre.
Can you give me any reccomendations or suggestions?
regards
mike