from a reseller in Aus.
"Bad things; The Klipsch 4.1s have a serious known problem at this time in oz, there's been a 90% rate of return because of an overheating problem which is fixable, but has only recently been confirmed."
"The current problem with the Klipsch 4.1s in Australia seems to effect ALL 4.1 units and one supplier has stopped shipment to fix/track the problem themselves, they can't track batches because the speakers aren't serialised but it certainly doesn't seem batch related; people who bought the speakers more than 4 months ago have had the same problem as those who bought them a week ago. I know of at least one person who's had 4 different sets from 4 different shipments develop the exact same problem.
If you use them at low/medium volumes for short/medium times, the problem takes a long time to manifest, and may not even do so. However - so far every set that's been tested for around 2 hours at high/medium volume (3/4 hardware, 75% windows)has developed a fault which causes the unit to overheat and distort, from then on the unit wil overheat even at low volumes in a very short period of time (5 mins).
If you're looking at buying a set of Klipsch 4.1s ; WAIT - until the problem is cleared up, it's easily fixed apparently, but from what I've gathered, if they can't fix the problem 100% at least one of the suppliers is going to stop doing promedia altogether, which I personally think is a good thing (not that the speakers are bad, just that there's no point selling stuff you know has a high chance of being faulty)
There are no known problems with the 2.1s."
Something is definitely wrong with the klipsch 4.1 design.. I bet for those of you bass junkies, set software volume to 90% and hardware 3/4.. I BET most of yur sets will blow up.. The reason it hasnt blown up because its not pushed far enough. Appearantly if thats not enough.. the Australian version which was converted to 230V has problems with the transformer itself.. and the return rate is rising and rising. Those of you who are living in Aus.. or anywhere for that matter, think twice.
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