[quote user="Medogsfat"] Must be a POLO eater - mint with a hole...... [/quote] I guess it's still better than the mints you find in urinals...

[quote user="lausvi"]This one arrived to me at work today... recognize what it is?[/quote] Of course we do It's a fat box, did you get both halves from the same place?

I don't think the shortcut is to blame. You're right there's only one amplifier output per channel - if anything electronic had been fried, you wouldn't have sound from the L2 output either. There's not much else than can be at fault except the relay, the speaker socket, or wiring between them. You should check the solderings of

This would be a completely different problem on the Encore, which doesn't run on Windows XPE. AFAIK (I read it here somewhere) the Encore is using Linux - it should have no problems recognizing any drive you connect to it on the hardware level, but that won't get you anywhere if you can't access it. You won't be able to run any extra

[quote user="mattiasf92"] Why will it help if i clean it, and is it the contact points under the motherboard i shall clean? [/quote] No. You need to remove the relay, open it (the clear plastic case comes off some way or another) and clean the contacts inside it!

[quote user="mattiasf92"]Is it just to go to a local Bang & Olufsen shop and ask them if they can order a speaker relay to Beomaster 4500?[/quote] Basically yes - according to the service manual the part number for it is 7600093, which might also be helpful However, not all dealers are willing to order & sell spare parts to end users

[quote user="EdouardG"]I tried to scan the flashcode but doesn't seem to work...maybe due to its round shape???[/quote] Too blurred. Anyway, I don't think it contains any more than the URL you see beside it. I thought this topic was about these

There are no fuses to blow in the outputs. You have already pretty much diagnosed that you need a new muting relay (the one that clicks when you operate mute). The 1st speaker outputs are routed through it. Don't bother trying to clean it unless you want to do that regularly in the future, that fix will never last long. This is a common problem

This is the first time I see what is obviously missing on my 6000! (and the 4004 as well, or it doesn't have the switch at all, can't remember.) I just turn the axle with my fingers... It isn't exactly visible, so you could of course salvage a 4 mm(?) knob from any junked gadget.

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