Rad09

How's it going fellow ifi owners, I wanted to check in too as I've had mine for a year now. These things have gotten the police called on my apartment parties more than once, the cops came to the door saying "we can here that from the middle of the street" I let my friends borrow them and they got an eviction warned the first night. But anyways, mine too started popping again recently after I replaced the capacitors in December however I found out that when I turned the computer volume down to 75 percent and turned the ifi up to compensate the popping diaapeared.

Yeah its upsetting. But I figured i don't mind replacing the capacitors every 6 months if it keeps them working.

I've had mine working for about 3 weeks now. I made the mistake of using standby the other day for about 5 minutes and they started blasting really loud out of one speaker again. I haven't used standby again since and they've been fine. Its best to just not use the standby button at all. I've been shutting mine down from the back everytime i'm done with them

one other question for you dbert. ive been shutting mine off from the back every time i'm done using them? do you think thats worse than leaving them in standby?

I've soldered a bit before but i'm not a pro by any means. The process took me about 10-15 minutes. you can do this for your self pretty cheaply. 1.) 15-30 watt soldering iron (low wattage is needed to keep your board from being damaged by heat. this is like 10 dollars.) 2.) desoldering braid (to clear the holes once the old capacitors are removed 3.) very thin solder. i used .015 diamater you can get all that from radio shack for prob 15-20 dollars. once you remove the board and identify the capacitors you can apply the gun to the nubs protruding from the board to melt the solder and simultaneously tug gently on the capacitor and remove both ends one at a time. (when pulling out the first lead you can twist the capacitor a bit but the second lead will come out much faster if you re straiten the component before hand) ( i also replaced my capacitors one at a time to prevent confusion.) once the capacitor is removed you need to apply the soldering braid to either of the holes with old solder still in them. use the gun to gently grind the tip into the hole with the braid between the gun and the board for about 5 seconds insert the capacitor and with the gun melt the solder on the side of the board with all the nubs. be sure the capacitor has no wiggle to ensure a solid connection. and you can repeat this process for all you capacitors. I'm glad to help any ifi user. also my question still stands about whether i should leave my ifi's in standby overnight.

ofmg!!!!!!!! it worked. I just replaced those 5 capacitors. dbert you are the boss!!!!! im blasting my ifi's rite now. now i read earlier that this volume control problem started after leaving the speakers in standby. I would leave mine in standby over night every night too. should i just turn them off from the back now?

Hey i just wanted to say i have this same problem. I bought my ifi's used and after 6 months the sound has started going out of the right speaker and subwoofer. I've noticed that when i adjust my remote volume the same sound distortion also happens so the problem shouldn't be something physical with the remote but inside the amp.