digitalstream dtx9950/15-150 bad "jl" caps.

[kc8adu]

this unit less than a year old. it started puzzling even on strong signals and had noise in the rf out since new.
a neighbor bought it with taxpayers money via one of those $40 cards.
i expect there will be a ton of these dieing off soon.
too bad there was no minimum durability standard required for coupon eligible units!
this plastic heap of shit brought to you by radioshack!

[japlytic]

Re: digitalstream dtx9950/15-150 bad "jl" caps.

I guess you are right about the durability standard for coupon eligible units, especially in the electrolytics department.

[Krankshaft]

Re: digitalstream dtx9950/15-150 bad "jl" caps.

I bought the all digital version (no analog pass through) last year around May and it had Daewoo caps on the PSU.

I replaced them all with Panasonics.

I couldn't resist opening the unit even though it was working good thing I did.

A very simple switcher utilizing a garden variety TOP IC.

Out of all the converter OSDs I liked this one the most.

I bought it for the hell of it with a coupon just to see what these boxes were all about.

I'm sure the new boxes still have that annoying ssssssing in one of the channels when receiving Dolby audio right?