Over the years I have collected a large-ish amount of Squeezebox hardware - about 10 booms, 1 * SB2 (original device I started with - still going, albeit with the case being a bit sticky these days!), and about 10 SB3/SB Classics)
Of these, I have about 4 or 5 SB3s that are not working, and couple booms. One definitely has a dead screen (was dropped, and I watched the screen fade away very soon after) - but the rest all just failed in non-specific ways (e.g. have dim red lights in the optical port). There was a bit of a rash of these recently. I suspect the capacitors are just dying of old age. I also have two dead booms. And another few booms could probably do with new screens. Probably half the booms could do with the speaker re-foaming too. So all in all, quite a lot of hardware well past its prime and looking for some love. If I lived anywhere in Europe, of course I'd send them all to Joe of the famous https://joes-tech-blog.blogspot.com/2018/11/logitech-slimdevices-squeezebox-classic.html etc. But realistically form Australia, I think the shipping will kill me - although I am still tempted. I don't suppose anyone knows of an Aus. resource anything like Joe - even if they are not SB experts, just very good general electronics repairers? As I continue to adore the ecosystem and resist alternatives, I'd be willing to spend several hundred on all the refurbishments (more if I get all the boom speakers fixed too)? (I have at least some skills, but soldering/electronics is not really amongst them, unfortunately. I'd certainly not trust any SB hardware to my dodgy soldering attempts...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bossanova808's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116965 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
