HI-FI DIY! I FIXED a TOSLINK Optical Port with My Own Hands! AMAZING!
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- I'm pretty handy!!! I McGyver'd (fixed) an Optical/TOSLINK Port on my Wiim Mini Streamer! Learn my Jedi ways so you will have no pauses in your musical enjoyment! Please Like and Subscribe! I'm not kidding!
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You're definitely amazing to us all. Keep on doing the magic. Thanks for sharing your solution. Enjoy the music stream, my friend. All the very best.
Thanks, Simon! I get lucky sometimes... usually I cock it up! Thanks for watching my vids!
Thanks. I damaged a receiver's toslink port a while back. I remapped a 2nd port to replace it, but if I get the urge to attempt a fix, this will be useful.
Worked for me! Thanks for being here!
Clever fix! Please don't give up on the channel, it's one of my favorites!
So nice of you to say! Got lots more stuff in the works!
I'm also amazed anytime I manage to fix something (no matter how trivial) without making it worse. Clever fix, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the support... you just bought me another 10 days!😮 Appreciate you!
@@UnitedStatesofAnalog I'm happy to help! 😀 Have you considered setting up one of those Patreon thingamajigs?
It worked!!! saved me a major headache!!! Not to mention a ton of money!!! Thank you!!!
The optical conector on my tv headphones box broke just as your one did. I did exaclty as you explained and its fixed . I would never have thought of this by myself. You saved me at least$100 . Thank you so much
Congratulations on your fix, aways feel good when you figure something out no matter how small
Makes me feel like a man! Like learning how to change your own oil or making coffee in the company break room! Thanks for your support!
Please don't go anywhere Bob! Love this channel and checking out your videos!!
Thanks, Clint! I hope you're learning something here!
That bar is looking good Bob. You did some great work setting that up!
Thanks, my friend. It gets a lot of use!
I've also had great CS with my first Wiim mini. It died after an update and Wiim was quick to replace it. Also, you hang in there. You have awesome content.
Appreciate the support... and WiiM on!
Excellent fix sir! I repaired office machines for 40 years and I fixed a couple of ribbon cable connectors that way. What a miserable product that is. The first time I installed an optical cable I didn't know I was supposed to remove the little rubber tip. That was almost a disaster. I had two Rocket Fish HDMI cables. One totally separated when turned the receiver 90 degrees and the cable was not tight. One separated when I grabbed it properly at the connector and pulled. Total junk.
Thanks, Mike! Dealing with these little audiophile problems is our superpower! Thanks again for watching!
Hang in there man, Randy started out the same way!
Stick around. Your videos are always great. Hang in there.
Thanks! I'm in it to win it!!!
Cool. As they say in the trades, "shim it" to fit!
Shim is a word I should have been a word I used! Oldest fox in the world! Thanks for being here!
the same thing happened to my smsl su-1. now I am going to try to fix my DAC the same way you did, Bob. thank you for sharing this video! cheers from GDL, Mexico
I love this channel and even built a Kissa Bar following your template. Not sure how to send you pictures of it though. Just trying to do my part to forward your master plan!
Thanks, Michael! I'll get an email address to you to send pics! I wanna see it!
Keep the content coming. Nice fix thanks for sharing.
My door broke on my wiim as well. Your solution is more elegant than my duct tape fix. i have one piece of tape holding the wiim down and another piece holding the optical in. I hope to be as fancy as you one day! Looking forward to your c3050 review.
Listen to Roxy Music Avalon on it right now!
Bob, if you build it, they will come. Keep building and Believe.
My OG Wiim Mini was violently crushed between my concrete basement floor and a falling speaker. I used the jaws of life (needle nose players) and CPR (moved/poked some wires around solder joints like nobody’s business) and…purchased a new one. Glad they’re cheap!
Hey... you gave it the ol' college try!
Thanks for sharing!! I'm going to try that. The door on my mini shattered into a million pieces!! Love the channel stick with it...and for the love of all that is good please keep your shirt on!! Lol.
Good luck with your repairs!!! Shirt on!
You are a genius. My spring loaded door broke the same day I finally figured out how to get my surround sound going. Great fix. Thank you so much 🎉
It's what I do! Glad I could be of service! Thanks for watching!
Tanks for sharing this value video Sir.
I got an issue of my Samsung tv optical input and now I will try this😊
Hey I got all 3 of those Japanese volumes on vinyl. Super stuff!
Yeah... really great!!!!
Keep going with the channel. Nearly 4k subscribers already. I was going to say "keep your shirt on", meaning to 'stay calm' - until I got to the end when the phrase took on a whole new meaning.
No greater joy than that of a mechanical idiot fixing something ( I'm thinking of myself here, not you, Bob). My subwoofer LED failed (I thought it was the whole sub, but I was testing it with solo piano music. Duh !).
Despite it being well out of warranty, Tom of BK electronics sent me a new LED for free, and I fixed it, then broke it by shorting the legs, then fixed it again last week.
Almost as good as the birth of my first child and much less messy
So great customer service and a successful fix. Awesome.
No offense taken! Thanks for your story!
Keep up the good work!
This gave me a good hint toward a fix: With my optical cables I can't lay down a piece of plastic on top of the whole connecter: the connector is a lot bigger than the actual part which goes in to the (in my case) soundcard. I ended up cutting a small piece of plastic from an old creditcard an put it on top of the piece which goes into the soundcard, this I taped with very thin painters tape. this worked also great. Its now tight :)
Great fix for the optical input. Let's see if Focusrite ships out a new $500 unit to replace the one I have a broken $0.0005 plastic door on. LOL. :)
Hey if someone is willing to pay more, you know they come in different qualities 😂
Follow the money!
Thanks, it totally worked!!
I had the same problem , only with a brand new LG $1300 TV! I inadvertently pulled the cable sideways and broke the door. Replacing the jack was out of the question. My solution was to use a small double-stick pad. I cut a hole in the pad to pass the cable through so that the pad stopped at the first step on the digital cable barrel. I then trimmed all around the pad to make it round. When I inserted the cable with the pad on it into the broken jack, the front side of the pad adhered to the surface around the jack, keeping it in place. The very small thickness of the double stick pad did not interfere with its ability to optically couple with the transmit probe inside the jack. As long as I don't remove the plug often, it will hold indefinitely. If the pad eventually loses its stickiness, I'll just replace it, OR I'll try your solution!
Way to go, McGyver! Well played!
Way to go, McGyver! Well played!
Genius. Hopefully will save me replacing my aiyima T8.
Keep it going. You’ve got it. (Whatever it is)
An English friend.
Thank you, I will
omg thank you sir i follow what you did samething happened on my tv opt port and i fixed mine
I had to come back to this video. I'm having problems with the other kind of port, and I think I might have to replace my vintage 90s Nakamichi CD player because of it. I'm feeding an SMSL SU-1 dac through an optical switcher (J Tech Digital, I love it. Allows me to hook up my TV, Wiim Mini, and CD player to my DAC and they all sound awesome through a Yamaha receiver with Boston Acoustics A100s). But the sound always drops out after a few songs (or sometimes not at all) from the CD player and to fix it I have to unplug the Toslink from the back of the CD player and plug it back in. Which is a pain. I end up just pushing the CD button on the receiver and skip the DAC (the SU-1 definitely has better resolution than the stock DAC in the old Nakamichi).
It's not a fancy CD player but it has a fancy name and it looks good and I hate to have to replace it.
The challenges of being an audiophile. I hope you find a path to fix it!
Good idea---expensive mcIntosh preamps use the same cheap gated port, and I broke mine too. A piece of gear I have will only connect optically so I bought a convertor "cube"--optical to HDMI or some such. Would never have thought about a field expedient fix of the port itself. Doesn't youtube require like 10 or 100K subscribers or some gigormous amount before they even start throwing pennies? Anyway keep making content. Not all about making $$.
5000 Watch hours is the $ threshold. I hit that sometime ago! I need more subs before I can start implementing my master plan!
Thanks for watching!
Your master plan doesn't involve world domination, does it ? If so I'm unsubbing. Actually, considering the potential alternatives, you might not be too bad.
If the Wiim had a single coaxial out port. Would you use the coaxial or the optical out? Which would sound better?
Jury is out on that. I would probably go coaxial because of my optical failure. WiiM Pro has coaxial out. Should upgrade that Mini.
Yeah the Wiim optical cable is cheap. I think the connectors vary as the Monoprice optical clicked with no fuss. I now use coax with the Wiim pro.
Yeah... I'm going to pick up another WiiM Pro at the next price drop!
@@UnitedStatesofAnalog nice grab the pro plus and have the complete collection.
Can we get a United States of Analog Tshirt?
Yes
Have a coffee on us😊
Thanks so much! Sunday morning coffee it is!!!!