audio sleuth at work - fault finding in audio installations

audio sleuth at work fault finding in audio installations The finding of a fault in an audio system would have been very much to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"s liking. Like Sherlock Holmes, you should sit down and calmly reason out what"s wrong. Take the symptoms one by one, put them in logical order and then try to find the solution by deduction. First of all, we are not going to suggest that you open up each item of your installation, heat your soldering iron, and prepare your- self for "surgery". On the contrary, the hints in this article deal with fault-finding without special tools and without expensive test equipment. As a rule, start your fault-finding with a list of questions. How did the system behave before the fault? Was everything all right? Was there any noise, hum, or crackle? Has it ever worked satisfactorily? Such a list often points to the most likely area of the fault. You then carry out a quick check of whether this is indeed so. If so, all well and good; if not, a mo...