I volunteer at a local Repair Café and we had one of these toasters brought to us on the weekend as the handle would not stay down. I am an electronics engineer and I narrowed the fault down to the control PCB but couldn't do much more due to the limited tools and time we had. If I had the toaster in my workshop I probably could have repaired it. I have contacted SMEG as they say on their website they can supply "wiring diagrams" for most models - and they have come back to me to say it's not available for this model (TSF01BLAU)! I have now gone back to them to ask what I do now, and how do they repair them if there is no service info? The reality is folks, these toasters are made in china with a SMEG badge slapped on the side. There is no service info, no spare parts etc - when it breaks down they want you to throw it in the bin and buy another one. I have been dealing with this mantra for many years in my work.
This was hard to watch with you sighing about everything and explaining nothing. Not even showing what it can actually in any capacity apart from on your keyboard for 10 seconds. You bought cheap your buying twice mate.
I a/b/x compared the Wiim to a NAD 3020 using a Van Alstine ABX comparator switch. They were very close, but the clarity of the more modern Wiim made it the winner. Add in the room correction available in the Wiim and it isn’t even close.
Interestingly, Yeti says both, the Flip 12 and the Roadie 15, hold 16lbs of ice and the Flip, 2 more 12oz cans, but if you multiply the internal dimensions, of both, the Roadie 15 has about 161 cu inches more, of internal space and the Flip 18, another 189 more than the Roadie 15. Now you need to do an Ice test comparison, between the three. I bought a Flip 12 just before the Roadie 15 came out because it was the best fit, for me, when packing up for a 2 day/night off-road weekend but it might not make it for the occasional 3-4 nighter, so I may buy the Oyster Tempo cooler, with it's 1420 cu inch, 36 can interior, while only being a little bigger than the Flip 18.
Tough decisions. I learned to like my Roadie 24 again on a week long trip that involved over 1k miles of driving. It was nice for the wife to reach over for a soda, water and easily access it. That would not happen with my Flip 18. It also fits standing in my trunk if needed. Though it was a little heavy full for lugging around. It also held some fridge items we put in there superbly. The 18 and Roadie 24 were a great tag team. I am eyeing the 32 with wheels, the only negative for me is that it won't fit in my car trunk. I am learning fast there is no such thing as a perfect cooler.
I was looking to get an iBasso DX180 and then I came across this video. Should I avoid the DX180 due to these problems, or should I not worry too much?
Mine also kept doing the menu thing. At first it let me actually set the device up and I had just started scanning my music when all of a sudden screen went dark and then it just kept going to that weird menu screen. Apart from the menu thing I also noticed the 3rd button down didn’t click as well as the others. I got mine through Bloom Audio and ended up sending mine back. I was going to go with a replacement but this is the second device now so I decided to just get a refund. My first device had issues with the 3.5 and the cables slipping out easily.
what you saw at the 1:00 mark was a bootloader menu, judging by the way it was constantly scrolling through options there might be something wrong with the board or buttons. However heres a quick way you can attempt to repair it yourself. You can enter this mode again by having it fully powered off, then hold the very bottom button and power button together at the same time. Use the track forward/track backward to scroll through the menu, press the power button to accept the option. Try to restart again from the bootloader menu by highlighting restart and accept. If this doesnt work, go back into the same bootloader menu but scroll through and lick recovery mode, theres an option to wipe/reset the device to default. btw, if your in the bootloader menu and things just keep scrolling through then its a physical issue, send it back.
I think it is in a bootloop. Maybe one of the 3 playback buttons got stuck, thereby triggering booting into some kind of recovery or fastboot mode. I faced a similar issue with Hiby R5 when I accidentally pressed the Next Track button and Power button together. I would suggest that you could just try to press and release the 3 playback buttons to possibly loosen them and then try booting again. You could also install Minimum adb and fastboot application if on windows and then try to check whether it is really one of those boot modes and possibly proceed from there like factory resetting or just clearing cache etc. Best is, just send it back if you are still under warranty coverage without fiddling further. I also have DX180 and will try to test those button combinations and will let you know later.
thank you for the review! speaking of spaciousness, will the dx180 or the the go blu throw sounds further into distance? And which of them does the layering of sounds on the depth axis in front of you (for example a large orchestra) better?
13:00 i too had issues but with the 3.5. When comparing the 3.5 on the DX180 to the Hiby M300 i noticed that the Hiby made that click and was secure, even when slightly pulling on it, it would not slip out. However on the DX180 it just didnt make as much of a click and slid out pretty easily. Sent mine back to Bloom Audio and they did a free replacement.
The WiiM amplifier is typical ChFi and load dependent but for $300 it would be decent for a garage or shop or as something to use until you could afford something legit. I would get a NAD 316BEE over that NAD.
Thank you, Petey, for posting this interesting video!...Looking to duplicate the setup and if possible, please provide details of the great-looking speakers...
