Hi Everyone,
Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. Here goes:
I have an Odyssey Extreme Stratos I have been using CAREFREE and which has delivered HOURS, WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS of musical enjoyment. More than 10 to be sure. Perhaps, dare I say, 14? Not quite sure.
I, the moron, did the following:
I accidentally crossed speaker wires while adding a speaker cable to the amplifier outputs on the right channel. I was adding a second speaker cable to bi-cable my speaker(s). Don't ask, I've been doing it for YEARS with the amp. BUT, I had removed one set of cables to listen and when reattaching the second cable, hooked it up with wrong polarity while, yes the stupid part...playing music. So much for paying close attention.
So here's what happened. I realized the left channel was playing but that the right had gone out...only too late. Yes, this wouldn't normally be a problem, but Coltrane was playing on Kind of Blue and that's primarily left channel so with my head buried in the back of the amp, I screwed up and it wasn't until I had hooked up the cable for more than 10-20 seconds that I realized I had a problem and no sound from the right channel.
Blue light on. Amp playing out of left channel. No sound right channel I shut the system down.
I opened the unit. Two blown fuses on right channel near transistors.
I replaced them with SAME value 6.3 amp 250v fast blow. CERAMIC fuses rather than clear glass.
To be consistent, I did the same fuse replacement for the LEFT channel EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WORKING BEFORE I SHUT DOWN THE AMP.
I turned on amp. Blue LEDs came to life, in other words ON.
Started my source and preamp: NO SOUND FROM EITHER CHANNEL.
Turned off amp, unplugged unit, waited and pulled fuses from the LEFT channel with original fuses, which are clear glass and not blown. NO SOUND.
Left amp on for 3 minutes. No sound and the fuses never blew on the left channel.
Ear next to speakers, no sound AT ALL. Usually I hear a slight hiss or something. But this is dead quiet nothing.
WHAT DID I DO? KLAUS OR ANYONE ELSE? Should I take a multimeter to this thing and measure something? Any advice? Am I missing the obvious, which is highly likely given that I made this dumb error in the first place?
James