Make sure your soundbar remote control is working though because that's the only way you can control it now. NB: you can no longer use the sensor touch on the bar but who uses it anyway. Now I have a perfectly working soundbar again. Each time i turned it on.the vol shoots up to max.frustrating. Ok I was fearless because i was going to dump it as the soundbar was useless to me anyway. That ribbon only connects the touch sensor +/- on the surface. Just pull it out from the small black holder which attaches it to the board. On one end of it is a small electronic transparent ribbon. Open the T flap by unscrewing the 4 screws. Turn the soundbar over and lay it with the bottom facing up. Make sure there is no power going into the soundbar at all. The problem is the vol +/- touch sensor on the surface of the soundbar. If my embarrassment can help but one stranded listener, it will have been worth it.I got this idea from users of other soundbars having the same problem on youtube. So again - sorry if this is a simplistic, obvious tip (I'm embarrassed even posting this as I've been an audiophile, musician, and DJ for some 30 years) but the lesson here is that sometimes, the elegant, simplest answer eludes some of us power-thinkers. Left of the Microphone on/off button on the back of the Invoke speaker, there is a pin hole that is the factory reset button. Since I was trapped under my office desk with a flashlight and had all the other volume control sources up to about 9 (for troubleshooting, like you do) I then had to scramble out from under to quickly turn down the room-shaking Spotify stream that was now blaring at previously unprecedented volume in my office.Īfter that I remembered the same exact thing had happened a year ago and it is easy to nudge that button with your foot or a vacuum cleaner or a remote control car or a curious guinea pig etc. After plugging and unplugging all my connections several times, wiggling, fiddling, and getting ready to believe I had inadvertently fried the power amp with my intermittent, low-office-level volume streaming of Death Cab For Cutie - I somehow did NOT consult the manual or the online PDF manual but luckily had a hunch and pressed in the black plastic sub-volume knob and Voila - the light in the subwoofer came back on. (And this is the embarrassing one) I'm not sure if this is the same with the older models, but with the newer subwoofer (I have the II series with the black round speaker stands) There actually is a "power on" function on the same black plastic knob that turns up or down the subwoofer volume ON the actual Subwoofer. So anyone moving one (cleaning woman, your kid looking for the key to the medicine cabinet, you accidentally etc.) can easily mute them simply by grazing the "-" button briefly.Ģ. It's easy to forget that the touch volume buttons on the right-hand speaker are very sensitive and do not "click" or press in with any tactile notification. I apologize if this has been repeated elsewhere or if it's super obvious, but - even as these SoundSticks are works of art, they have some "hidden" aspects that are easy to lose track of especially if you "set and forget" them and control audio from your computer like I usually do.ġ. I've encountered this twice now and the period of time between each occurrence made me forget what the fix was.
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