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Hi CV,

Have you tried leaving that ADA1500-5 unplugged for a few hours and then seeing if it comes back to life? It's possible you sent a zap of static through the system which could have locked up the protection circuits on those amp channels. That's the only thing I can think might have happened.

Thanks,

Andrew

Charles, do you have carpet in your basement?

Hey, Andrew, thanks for responding. It had been unplugged for a while, so I just tried hooking it back up to those channels, and they're still not doing anything.

Mojo, semi. It's shag-type as area rugs.

It did feel like static discharge when I touched the top of the case. So is it ever extreme enough to do damage beyond pushing the amp into protection?

Fried! If your place is at 40 to 50% relative humidity on shag, you may have built up a difference in potential of 10 kilo Volts...maybe more. You can build up to 40kV although 5 to 10 is more common.

Ouch. That's not what I wanted to hear!

Baked? Does that sound better?

Debbie and Andrew are amazing, and I'm being taken care of. It will be a little while before the new Actives are made, but the process is underway.

A 40,000 Volt static discharge?

I'm picturing a Tesla Coil.

Actually Charles, you are a biological capacitor.

They made them faster than expected, and they arrived faster than expected after being shipped. They showed up today. The right one seems pristine, but the box for the left one came with the straps off, and there was, in fact, cosmetic damage on the front of the speaker this time. So I've left the original left speaker in the chain, since that one's damage (also entirely cosmetic) is on the rear of the speaker. The original right speaker had a midwoofer with performance-affecting damage (pained noise that wouldn't stop), so I was running that without the rear mids hooked up. Slighty lopsidedness to the sound, but I wanted to get the passives boxed up for return.

So now I finally get to hear them in their full glory. I'm listening to Mon Laferte's live album right now, and I'm very happy with the live sound. I don't own a ton of studio albums that I would consider audiophile showcases, but I'm more generally happy with live material being fed through my system. Still, I'll have to revisit a lot of my favorites just to see if I can notice new details.