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Hello all,
I'm a new ( and happy ) rotel user for over two months now. 1066 + 1095 feeding a pair of b&w n804 as mains, htm1 as centre and 2x705 as rears. To say that I'm enchanted with the system's performance is an understatement !
I found a buzz/hiss problem with the 1095 which was quickly addressed after careful checking of all my interconnects ( kinda ground loop, for sure ).
Now all is ok, but... there's still an annoying, yet not - apparently - serious issue with the 1095.
Let's assume the 1095 has been turned off all the night. Let's say, 8-10 hours. You wake up and turn it on. For my initial dismay, the centre-channel protection led will light up in that menacing red tone. A quick look at the manual states that "under rare circumstances, when the protection leds light up, the channel will be shut down and no sound will come from that channel".
First in the mouth. The channel not only doesn't shut down, but it sounds flawlessly ! Somehow, the protection circuit is engaged but not damaging sonic performance (??). The manual isn't very clear at this point : it talks about some kind of "overcurrent protection which has not sonic impact", if I remember well.
Now wait. As seconds pass, the center-channel protection led starts to... gradually turn off ! first starts flashing lightly... from solid-red to now-red-now-black ... as time elapses, is more often black than red.. and finally, is always black ( i.e., turned off, as it should have been always ) with occasional red flashes.
Within 2-3 minutes, the led turns completly off, and everything continues working just perfect. This is regardless of the use of the 1095 : wether you're playing music or not, is irrelevant : it will take from 2 to 3 minutes to "calm down" the center channel protection led.
With some experimentation ( and a termometer,duh ! ) I've been able to make somewhat of a relation, between temp/humidity and the time needed by the 1095 to "stabilise". The colder the ambience is, more time will be needed by the 1095 in order to shut down completly the led. With 10ºC, the unit need a "warming time" of about 4 mins. 15ºC will need only a round 2.
I use the term "warming", because I've come to the conclusion, that this is somehow a warm-up problem. How could you explain, that 2-3 mins. after being turned on, the protection led starts to fall off and finally turns itself off.
Of course, many things escape to my knowledge here. Why is only the center channel affected by this issue, for one. Why my local retailer hasn't been able to provide me with an acceptable explanation of this, for other. And, in the name of the Stygian Abyss, what the HELL is exactly going on inside my 1095 ???
I searched for rotel customer support, but I wasn't able to find any kind of email address for such a purpouse. If someone here could provide me with a clue about what's going on, it would be really the first help I'd had received with this issue.
many thanks in advance,
Jose
I'm a new ( and happy ) rotel user for over two months now. 1066 + 1095 feeding a pair of b&w n804 as mains, htm1 as centre and 2x705 as rears. To say that I'm enchanted with the system's performance is an understatement !
I found a buzz/hiss problem with the 1095 which was quickly addressed after careful checking of all my interconnects ( kinda ground loop, for sure ).
Now all is ok, but... there's still an annoying, yet not - apparently - serious issue with the 1095.
Let's assume the 1095 has been turned off all the night. Let's say, 8-10 hours. You wake up and turn it on. For my initial dismay, the centre-channel protection led will light up in that menacing red tone. A quick look at the manual states that "under rare circumstances, when the protection leds light up, the channel will be shut down and no sound will come from that channel".
First in the mouth. The channel not only doesn't shut down, but it sounds flawlessly ! Somehow, the protection circuit is engaged but not damaging sonic performance (??). The manual isn't very clear at this point : it talks about some kind of "overcurrent protection which has not sonic impact", if I remember well.
Now wait. As seconds pass, the center-channel protection led starts to... gradually turn off ! first starts flashing lightly... from solid-red to now-red-now-black ... as time elapses, is more often black than red.. and finally, is always black ( i.e., turned off, as it should have been always ) with occasional red flashes.
Within 2-3 minutes, the led turns completly off, and everything continues working just perfect. This is regardless of the use of the 1095 : wether you're playing music or not, is irrelevant : it will take from 2 to 3 minutes to "calm down" the center channel protection led.
With some experimentation ( and a termometer,duh ! ) I've been able to make somewhat of a relation, between temp/humidity and the time needed by the 1095 to "stabilise". The colder the ambience is, more time will be needed by the 1095 in order to shut down completly the led. With 10ºC, the unit need a "warming time" of about 4 mins. 15ºC will need only a round 2.
I use the term "warming", because I've come to the conclusion, that this is somehow a warm-up problem. How could you explain, that 2-3 mins. after being turned on, the protection led starts to fall off and finally turns itself off.
Of course, many things escape to my knowledge here. Why is only the center channel affected by this issue, for one. Why my local retailer hasn't been able to provide me with an acceptable explanation of this, for other. And, in the name of the Stygian Abyss, what the HELL is exactly going on inside my 1095 ???
I searched for rotel customer support, but I wasn't able to find any kind of email address for such a purpouse. If someone here could provide me with a clue about what's going on, it would be really the first help I'd had received with this issue.
many thanks in advance,
Jose
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