Any LS50W owners have their speakers going into what seems like "protection" mode? I received the speakers last Friday. They worked fine for a few hours.
Friday evening, we were watching a movie, using optical input on the speakers, and suddenly I noticed the sound had dropped out.
Saturday, I'm using the speakers with PC input (coming from NVIDIA Shield) and I hear a slight "tick/pop" and the speakers turn off again. Power button flashes quickly. Can't get them to respond, unless you unplug and plug back in (sometimes once, sometimes several times).
This has happened to me at least 10 times in the two days I have owned them.
Only thing I can think of is either:
1) Speakers don't like the outlet I have available. I'm not sure if the same circuit or not yet, but in my garage on the other side of the wall, I have an air compressor, fluorescent light, and electric car charger plugged in. Once I noticed my air compressor kicked on, and the LS50W's immediately kicked off into "protection mode." I had to reboot several times to get them to work again. I do have one other outlet available, which I haven't tried yet.
2) Speakers are defective.
I am so frustrated with it that I just boxed them up and asked the seller if he'd take them back, I'd pay shipping both ways (he paid shipping the first time). So I'm out $140 to try these speakers for 2 days.
Other option is to assume the speakers are probably fine and keep them and keep fiddling. I would be more inclined to do this if I were super impressed with them.
Sound-wise, at first I didn't really care for them, then they started to grow on me. To me, they sounded mostly like the passive version. Probably a bit better, but same overall presentation. I felt the sound was more like a really accurate, life-like drawing or painting of the sound, vs. the REAL sound, if that makes sense. My 107' to me sound closer to the real sound. Not as VIVID as the LS50W, but somehow more real. They did start to grow on me though. When they were working for a good 2 hour stretch there, I was thinking I could live with them. Then the air compressor comes on, and the speakers kick off again. My main system has never had any issues with these outlets, which is the weird thing. My main system also doesn't have much in the way of a protection mode either. I know my McCormack amp has some sort of protection, but probably not as sensitive as the protection in the LS50W?
Does anyone have any troubleshooting guide for the LS50W? All I've found so far is the quick start guide that came with the speakers.
I will also say when I was running the LS50W's, my other gear was still all plugged in, but powered off. All of my gear is plugged into two different power strips, in two different outlets (I think different circuits but not sure).
Any input at all here is welcome. This was a frustrating, slightly costly, 2 day experiment!