Got the Shakes
500+ Head-Fier
Sounds like basically the same symptoms, but different causes and solutions I think? Once my sound is working after playing the preset game, I’m good. It will work for the duration of my A16 being powered on. It doesn’t seem to exhibit any issues switching inputs, but switching inputs will also not fix the missing sound issue. My issue is at this point 100% repeatable and the solution seems to work 100% of the time.not sure we’re discussing the same issue but, for as long as I’ve been using the A16, it’s always been a nightmare to switch sources (in my case going from HDMI4 to optical). I endup having to switch inputs multiple times from the main panel, go to the preset and reload it, switch presets and reload, go back to target preset and reload, go back to front back switch inputs and reload , continue this merry go round until I final hear something.
In some cases, when it really won’t switch, I reboot the unit. In other cases, the unit works on an input (one it works, it works for good), I turn it off, restart it the next day, it’s no longer working on the same input and I end up going back to the procedure above.
Basically, I’ve never found the exact process to make this input switch systematically work (I tried enabling/disabling the input selection from the main panel but that doesn’t help), it feels like the hardware behind isn’t catching all the calls being sent and you need to be lucky for the remote command to actually percolate through the system.
I also did some more testing as trying to solve issues like this or at least gather as much data as I can about a problem is just kind of my nature. Reloading presets does not bring sound back. However, if I boot my A16 up and preset 16 was the one selected when I powered down last making it the preset the A16 will boot to on the next power on, then I will have sound and don’t have to play the preset switching game. Seems that the “fix” is to always have my A16 load preset 16 whether that’s by switching to it after power up or having preset 16 be the one that loads on power up. I guess for the time being I’ll just setup my most used PRIR on preset 16 to save a little bit of effort when I want to use my A16. An annoying bug no doubt, but at least I know how to work around it. Fingers crossed it’s something the Smyths care to dig into and that if they do they can find a permanent fix.