New Vista problem?

[beek]

This morning the other channel of the new Vistas
LED was on after being off for at least 10 hrs.
Will keeping amps on all the time cause this?
Thanx
guys

 

[roberto]

Hey Bill, talk to them, try them to like you!. No. Just Kidding. Contact Dana at ML service dept. He will guide you better than us. To me it is a minor problem at the sensing circuit. It is at the power supply PC Board. Nothing to worry about. On the other hand, how are them? They must be singing by now. How are the female voices. Is the plastic man playing drums? Thanks in advace for your report. Happy listening my friend,
R.

 

[Bernard]

Is the plastic man playing drums?

What are you smoking chico?

 

[roberto]

Well, we all know that sometimes a weed helps the hearing... but this is not the case. There are other planar speakers that, to my ears, the drummer is like the plastic man. You have the drums back at the stage, and the cymbals are at front. It is like the plastic man playing drums. That happens with the piano on certain notes, or vocals too. And you Bernard, are you also smoking something good for the hearing? Please invite us!

 

[beek]

You & Bernard watch for the fed ex man! Hope it docent smell through.... Only kiddin

 

[tsv_1]

I like how some threads can go off in the weeds on occasion

Beek, you mentioned your amps were on (and presumable connected to your Vistas)... perhaps an alpha particle, or some sort of EM intrusion, was picked up by your amp and sent to that one speaker as a transient noise event. That would trigger the speaker to wake up... but it would have had to have happened within the sleep-timer period prior to you discovering the LED indication. What I'm getting at is, does the LED stay lit all the time even if you have the speaker cables disconnected? If so, I suspect (with Roberto) that a sensing circuit peculiarity has manifested.

If, however, the LED goes out as designed upon sensing zero input signal, then perhaps you could disconnect the speaker cable, pull up a chair, along with libation or two, and proceed to monitor (or take a nap and check the LED later). If it's back on... sensing-circuit-drama has occured and a call to ML is warranted. If not, then I would flag it as a one-off and get back to those libations and audio-nirvana, ASAP.

Cheers

 

[Bernard]

And you Bernard, are you also smoking something good for the hearing? Please invite us!

Roberto, I'm a life-long non-smoker. Drug-free too.

 

[tsv_1]

Just stratospherically high on life then Bernard?

 

[roberto]

we are in the same boat! my dear friend... I quit smoking long time ago too. Good for us! and for the people that are surround us. The smoke is bad for the ML diaphragm. Getting back to our friends problem with his new Vistas, I am with tvs_1. EM is a possible cause. I wish to all a very happy listening!!!

 

[Bernard]

Just stratospherically high on life then Bernard?

How did you guess?

 

[beek]

Thanx for the info-will do

 

[amey01]

Will keeping amps on all the time cause this?
Thanx
guys

In short, yes. I've seen this on my Vistas.

With the amps on, you always have the ability to drive the speakers. If (through a ground loop or power fluctuations), the amp delivers small current to the speakers - yes, this will happen.

I've seen it specifically when my refrigerator turned off once. The power fluctuation and subsequent "pop" was enough to turn the Vista power on for five minutes.

Keep the amps off when you are not listening for extended periods. I'm not a greenie, but that's just environmental vandalism.

 

[beek]

Thanx Amey01 just what I needed to hear,
Also thank you to the other responders....

 

[|Tch0rT|]

Is the plastic man playing drums?

Ever since I got my ML setup I've noticed that a lot of drums sound fake (especially in rock and metal). I don't know much about drum recording but from talking to some drummers in my time it could possibly partially to blame with drum triggering.

http://www.drumjunction.com/drum_trigger.html


Sorry to take this OP but here's my attempt to steer it back. It might be your receiver or source (I don't know what your setup consists of) keeping the LED on like there's a signal. All my major connections are optical and if my source (HTPC, PS3, etc) has no signal the receiver shuts down all indicators (L,R,C, RS, LS, LFE) and LED on my ML's will shut off despite the receiver still being on. Maybe an analog input would send a "false" signal, I'm just guessing though.