No guarantee that it isn't a design flaw that caused the unit to fail in the first place.
Could be. The speaker system has a built-in sleep mode that powers down the speakers if no sound is played after a set period. Not sure of the point of it as I only found it annoying. The constant powering up/down probably caused a cap to blow, I reckon.However, I am starting to suspect my surge protected powerstrip. ALL the caps on my mobo blew a couple of months back, and when I say blew, I mean BLEW - they made a very loud bang! :/ I put that down to a fubared PSU at the time, but maybe the powerstip caused the PSU to burn in the first place!?
Save your pennies and get a proper hifi amp + speaker setup from richersounds.
Nah, I'm not bothered about quality sound. I'm currently using the mono speaker built into my monitor. Nice. ;P