Sighhhhh.. The very latest in our thrift-store IP-fed music system...   
      
      
   Two weeks ago, the music just got softer and softer, then   
   just faded away entirely, replaced by a nasty 60Hz hum.   
      
   A tech showed up later that week, removed and re-   
   connected some wires in back of the amp and the music   
   receiver, and got a faint trickle of music back.  The 60Hz   
   hum remained. He showed me that "CD/Aux" no longer had   
   any effect on the music volume.  Since I was curious, he had   
   me make a couple "Testing 1 - 2 - 3" pages over the thing -   
   A-OK.  He explained all this to the store manager and me,   
   indicating that the aux mode was shot and that they needed   
   a new amp.  The manager didn't want to eat into her weekly   
   budget to buy a replacement, so the tech examined a few   
   other options in the closet.   
      
   He then explained that he was going to reroute the music   
   receiver feed directly through the telephony box that fed   
   phone pages into the amp/house system.  Ten or twenty   
   minutes later... "..USED TO CALL ME ON MAH CELL   
   PHONE, LATE NIGHT WHEN YOU NEED MY LUV. CALL   
   ME ON my cell pho... ..ate night when you NEED my luv"   
   He hollered at me, "How's that?"  I told him, "Lower it just   
   a hair and its perfect".   
      
   He showed me how the music is adjusted now - it goes   
   through a small panel on the wall with some pots he needs   
   a tiny screwdriver to tweak.  He rigged it so it still cuts   
   the music when someone pages over the PA, but now   
   the music plays constantly through an outdoor horn   
   mounted by the back loading dock.  Music volume is   
   no longer regulated via "CD/Aux" knob on the amp,   
   but bass and treble still affect it.  The 60hz hum persists   
   in the background, but the music is actually a bit clearer   
   and punchier.  I adjusted the bass & treble on a return trip   
   to the closet after he left - the treble was too high again!   
      
   As a sidenote, for some time that Aux knob has felt   
   wobbly and turns loosely, like someone banged it by   
   accident or over-turned it.  Either way it was already   
   dying or dead by the time this tech was called in.   
   The only catch is now the music volume can no longer   
   be adjusted by anyone in the store, so it is playing   
   constantly, unless a manager switches off the amp,   
   which the #1 mgr is afraid to even touch that thing,   
   LOL!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)