z560 volume knob static?

[Dark54555]

If it's not one thing, it's another. Anyhoo, just had to disassemble to put in a new dvd burner and put my Santa Cruz back. Now, when I turn the volume knob on my z560 control box, certain levels exhibit huge static. Any ideas?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Try turning the volume knob up to max and back down to nothing a couple dozen times. There may be some dust caught in there that's causing the issues.

 

[alcoholbob]

The static thing with the volume dial is usually a sign of low-quality capacitors on the tweeter (can you say Klipsch Promedia?) but I've never heard of this with one-way designs.

If its only certain (I'm guessing high) levels, you could just max out master/WAVE volume on the Windows side to minimize volume changes on the Logitech (or just put the windows volume dial on the taskbar, or use your keyboard volume buttons instead).

 

[Dark54555]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Try turning the volume knob up to max and back down to nothing a couple dozen times. There may be some dust caught in there that's causing the issues.

you called it. blew it out with a little canned air, spun it a could times, fixed.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Dark54555

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Try turning the volume knob up to max and back down to nothing a couple dozen times. There may be some dust caught in there that's causing the issues.

you called it. blew it out with a little canned air, spun it a could times, fixed.

I figured that was it. Had to do that for mine, my gf's and a few friends who jumped on the z-560 bandwagon a couple years ago too 🙂

 

[alcoholbob]

Thank god for canned air. 😀

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
Thank god for canned air. 😀

I'm out right now 🙁

 

[neogodl3ss]

Try turning the volume knob up to max and back down to nothing a couple dozen times. There may be some dust caught in there that's causing the issues.

Strong longs - just did this 2-3 times while blowing really hard with my humid lung air! Maybe not ideal but it worked! (For now...)