(I'm also sending this to FiiO's customer support, but figured I'd pick the brains of you guys in case anyone has experienced any similar issues
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Last night my E17/E09K combo stopped working, it was completely fine earlier in the afternoon but when I went to watch a movie later that night (the computer had not been turned off between these points) it wasn't playing audio through the usual channel I use (USB>docked E17>E09K>Hifi Amp via line-out). The E17 has also stopped turning on/off with the amp, and just turns on itself when the PC gets turned on and doesn't shut down when either the amp or PC get shut off. After unplugging and redocking the E17 the PC also fails to recognise the E17 as an audio device and defaults to the onboard audio. Today I've investigated the issue further and discovered the following;
*The E09K does not output audio from either the docked E17 (on account of it not being recognised) or from my Xbox 360 which is connected via aux-in, from either the line-out or headphone-out
*The E09K
will output audio from the pre-out with audio coming from the aux-in, but the volume control does not work (which I'm led to believe is the point of the pre-out, or is this just when receiving audio via the dock?)
*When connected via the standard mini USB cable, the E17 works perfectly.
So yeah, this leads me to believe there is definitely an issue with the dock connector, seeing as the E17 goes from functional when connected directly to the PC to completely unrecognised, and with whatever circuitry controls the line-out and headphone-out but possibly not the pre-out, and not the aux-in. Has anyone experienced any combination of these problems before? Any help would be appreciated!