From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019030422404192682-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > I spent time today looking at the EON 315 we blew up using it as a floor   
   > wedge a few weeks back. Hope was it was the common problem of a loose   
   > connector. It wasn't.  It's the eq rotary encoder switch, or so I believe.   
   > Can't find a schematic online. I'll try contacting JBL in a day or two.   
   > My thoughts on that cab is .... if it takes more than just a little more   
   > work to fix it ... I'd throw it away.   
      
   In that case, it's junk and JBL should also be thrown away!!!   
      
   > Told band girl that today. It's technically her cab.  Replacing the board   
   > with the bad switch would cost $85 plus shipping, and then I'd still have   
   > to install it.  Is the speaker worth that ?  Maybe barely.   
      
   That sounds awfully expensive. Self contained amp/eq/speaker cabs are as   
   much a Gimmick as are those silly 'all-in-one' devices for   
   computers...printer/scanner/copier/fax/etc... - when one thing goes, it   
   pretty much all goes. There's a very valid  reason for Component systems -   
   so that if one component fails, the rest keep going and only the defective   
   component needs to be repaired or replaced. That's also why I always   
   preferred component stereo systems too...although I'd also prefer a separate   
   amp and tuner, I'd settle for a 'receiver' amp/tuner 'module', but   
   everything else had to be in discreet component format!   
      
   > If it were mine, it'd be in the trash this weekend.   
      
   Sounds like JBL is also in need of some Integrity!   
      
   > I spent nearly $200 in parts on the last EON we fried and I tried to fix.   
   > Weeks of work, $$$ and it never did sound right.  I threw it away finally,   
   > and don't regret that one bit.  Those things aren't made to be repairable.   
      
   JimD   
      
   I've seen those Gimmicky pieces of crap mess up too, get 'fixed', and never   
   sound quite right after that - enough said, I'll have NOTHING to do with   
   them, unless they cost me nothing, which to me is  precisely what they, and   
   their manufacturers, are worth!   
      
   I want audio equipment to be built like a Ford Model A - with Integrity, and   
   with the full knowledge that they'll be used often, and often heavily, above   
   and beyond, and therefore also be designed to be easily user serviced should   
   that ever be necessary!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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