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Hi,
I have the Lenoxx Sound HT600 & for the price it seems a good system, especially as it's easy to hack to multi region, thanks to the guys on the forum :)

I have noticed however that the small cooling fan makes it a bit noisy :(

The instructions make reference to a humming noise from the cooling fan (bottom right of page 22) but the way this is wrote gives me the impression that the cooling fan shouldn't be on all of the time. The fan on my system IS on all of the time, is this the same on your system?


Regards

Surely not all Lenoxx Sound HT600 owners are deaf.are they??

Hi,

Sorry, couldn`t hear you! Actually mine is quite noisy, but I`ve learned to live with it. The fan is certainly on at all times. The problem I had with the first one I tried was with clicks & pops on the AV ins, even without anything being connected. Some of these were incredibly loud, like pistol shots! I`ve swapped it for another one and this seems a great deal better, but now I`ve plugged it into a Maplin mains filter, which may be removing spikes anyway.

Meanwhile, I have had two other problems, both of which were solved by unplugging the unit, waiting for a few moments and then switching on again :

a) Everything locking up - no response from either the handset or controls on the front of the unit. The sound is interrupted too. This happened on the first unit too - looks like a software fault.
b) When using the FM tuner and switching to another (preset) station using the numbered buttons, suddenly got continous white noise at horrendous volume. Switching to other stations made no difference, although the RDS display was showing the correct station names.

I would be interested to hear if anyone has experienced the same problems. Another point which isn`t made completely clear from the manual is that the video IN on AV1 appears to be inoperative, so that you can`t (for example) send VCR input via AV1, then monitor via AV1 output to the TV. Has anyone tried to do this? The AV1 audio IN/OUT channels are definitely connected OK through the SCART. This is not really a major problem, it just means switching to VCR video input directly. Apart from this, everything seems to work fine and seems good value for 100 pounds. It would be nice to be able to change the eq settings and use the rear speakers for radio, though....

Richard

This item was edited on Tuesday, 14th October 2003, 14:45