ArtG
05-27-2008, 07:36 PM
Hi,
My first post - pretty "green" at this stuff. Just inherited an "old" receiver - Nikko NR1000. It looks to be in very good shape (if that alone has any value), but I can't get any sound (using speakers or headphones, so it would seem to point to something other than a speaker problem), unless I play with a "control" on the back labeled "Muting Threshold". It is a round "screw head" recessed into the case. If I turn it with a slotted screwdriver left or right to the "correct" position, I can get full, normal sound out of the speakers or headphones. But as soon as I remove the screwdriver I lose the sound completely. I stumbled on this "solution" simply as a "try anything" approach.
Stranger still - once I'm able to get sound using the method I just described, if I touch the (metal) case with the screwdriver right next to this "screw head" - not the "screw head" itself, the sound comes back - until I stop touching the case. It's all very much touch and go. It isn't reliable or consistent. Each time I attempt this, it can take 5 or 6 attempts to get it to work.
Obviously using the screwdriver is not the solution, but what the heck is going on?
Anybody have any ideas? Is this something I should be able to resolve or is this a matter for a paid professional? TIA.
Art
My first post - pretty "green" at this stuff. Just inherited an "old" receiver - Nikko NR1000. It looks to be in very good shape (if that alone has any value), but I can't get any sound (using speakers or headphones, so it would seem to point to something other than a speaker problem), unless I play with a "control" on the back labeled "Muting Threshold". It is a round "screw head" recessed into the case. If I turn it with a slotted screwdriver left or right to the "correct" position, I can get full, normal sound out of the speakers or headphones. But as soon as I remove the screwdriver I lose the sound completely. I stumbled on this "solution" simply as a "try anything" approach.
Stranger still - once I'm able to get sound using the method I just described, if I touch the (metal) case with the screwdriver right next to this "screw head" - not the "screw head" itself, the sound comes back - until I stop touching the case. It's all very much touch and go. It isn't reliable or consistent. Each time I attempt this, it can take 5 or 6 attempts to get it to work.
Obviously using the screwdriver is not the solution, but what the heck is going on?
Anybody have any ideas? Is this something I should be able to resolve or is this a matter for a paid professional? TIA.
Art