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  1. Thanks JJK. I took my 4.1 to a local repair guy who works out of his house and he feels the Power Supply is blown. Does anyone know where parts for the 4.1 can be found? I think I read that the components are not obscure proprietary ones, and common readily available parts. Is this true? Thanks for any input on where to buy. Steven
  2. Hi Razzz, My 4.1 stopped making sound and the pod light is out. I found someone local in NYC who works on stereos and home theaters, etc. and is looking at my system and feels the power supply is out. I mentioned that I would email here to see if anyone knew where components could be purchased. So that's question #1. But I'm also interested in the mods you mention and what's involved. You mention you charge a fee but I wasn't sure if that's for the work, the instructions or both? I'm trying to figure out what would be best since your mod sounds amazing. Please advise what's involved and if he can do the work with your consultation, or if I need to get the amp and pod board to you? Or???? Thanks Razz, Steven
  3. Hi.. I've had my Promedia 4.1 THX for ever and loved it. It finally stopped working the other day. Being a tinkerer, I opened the subwoofer and while I don't know how to test currents and things, I wanted to at least look to see if the fuse was blown, or some components were fried. All looks perfect. I next opened the pod and the top looks a bit messy. I realize an eye ball "test" doesn't compare to a true electronic test, but I thought I'd post and show what it looks like in case someone has looked at theirs and can say if mine looks "suspicious" and then since Klipsch doesn't make these any more what might I do. The symptoms are: green light on pod is out and there is no sound. Dead, dead, dead. The 4 orange-ish are they resistors? look very odd to me. I don't know much about these but I've seen enough circuit boards and these look like they got hit with some heat and looked fried. The opposite side doesn't show any suspicious melting or discoloration like these 4 do. If the orange resistors on the opposite side are the same value, then for sure the 4 on the bottom are fried. Right? Thoughts? If these 4 resistors are indeed fried, can someone tell me their value? And should I first simply try to replace these and see if my system comes back to life? Thanks for any input and help. Steven
  4. Does any one have any insight into how Klipsch expected the average computer with just a stereo output to create 4 channel sound? I realize the subwoofer or .1 of the 4.1 on, in this case, my ProMedia 4.1 is created within the Klipsch system. But what about the 2 front and 2 rear speakers? How are we supposed to get quad sound? I bought my PM 4.1 new and use a Mac Pro tower, which only has a single stereo headphone out jack. In order to have the "semblance" of surround sound, I merely "Y" jack the 2 PM cables together and thus get the same left audio in the front/left and rear/left and same right audio in the front/right and rear/right. But in the old days, a company called Creative Sound Labs made a sound PCI card for the Mac (and PC too), which had front and rear out jacks and software, which I assume artificially created 4 discrete audio signals to make the quad signals. They no longer make cards for the Mac and neither does anyone else, so unless some one knows something, the only solution seems to Y jack the front and rear PM cables together to get a pseudo surround sound by virtue of speaker placement. Any one know what Klipsch originally had in mind? Any ideas on what to do with a quad Klipsch system when you only have 1 stereo output? My Mac also has a digital audio out, but I don't know if it is stereo, 4.1, 5.1 or 7.1. Not that it matters since the PM is analog, I guess. Thanks, Steven
  5. The ProMedia 4.1 system has two mini jacks, one for the front and other for the back speakers. Does anyone know of a way to hook them into a Mac Pro which only has a headphone mini port out. Well it also has a digital out port, but since the PM is analog I don't know if there's an adapter that would interface between the digital port and 2 PM mini male stereo plugs?
  6. This just started last week. I've had this computer speaker system forever and it is amazing. I hope I can get it fixed as I'd hate to lose it. Intermitently I just started getting a pulsing beeping like; beep, beep beep... beep, beep beep... beep, beep, beep. And then it stops sometimes for hours. It is not very loud and the quality of my music playback is not degraded. If I press the off button while it's happening, it stops. If I unplug the wires from the back of my computer, the beeps continue, so it's not my computer sound card. I can't know or tell if the problem is in the amp in the subwoofer or in the preamp under the satellite speaker. But I REALLY would love to get this fixed and hope the fix isn't more than the unit is worth as other than this, the system still sounds awesome. I live in Los Angeles/Hollywood area. But I'll ship if someone knows of a repair shop proficient in Klipsch ProMedia systems. I can't believe Klipsch stopped making this and the 5.1 model. They are the best! Steven
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