I wish I had. I'm almost afraid to tell you where I got it from(shopgoodwill.com) I hope pandaman can fix it. If not, I'll have to wait and get a new avr. No more used for me. Live and learn, I guess.
Well you have learned a hard lesson. That was an unwise purchase. As far as a I can tell a lot of people are sorry they bought this receiver and I bet many others as well.
I have been on the Encompass site, and spent more time then I should on live chat with them. There are no mother boards available for your receiver. You can go to the bank with the fact that all that were produced have been used up long ago, and there are far more blown up receivers of this model than they made parts for.
So my advice is to stick with the receiver you have.
I have never been in favor of receivers and many here know this. They are a lousy contrivance and getting worse. They are far too cheap now for the complexity involved. Also, it is just a dreadful idea to cram all those complex chips in with that huge number of power amps. I know Peng will disagree, but it is insanity.
We need to go back to a simpler time. The vast majority of users would be much better served, with just two powered speakers with DSP driven from the optical output of a TV. That is what would work best in the vast majority of rooms, and be delivered within most people's budgets.
I know this as I have a good two channel AV system in our family room. It has excellent speech and music capabilities. In fact its speech discrimination is way better than the vast majority of centers. All these inferior speakers and amps are quality spoilers in most systems. They add enormously to the risk of failure.
So there are a lot of sore heads over this receiver, and I suspect many others.
The root causes of this debacle are just numerous.
We have ill thought out complex gear rolled out, with far too frequent model changes. All put together far too cheaply.
There are never enough spares produced in the production runs. Because of the design structure and lay out, they are virtually irreparable
The end result is that consumers are stiffed galore with no recompense.
This industry really is in a truly lamentable state, and currently not remotely fit for purpose.
We have a thread about about
Science over Religion, but the real issue is marketing over good engineering practice.
The public are much more aware of the shortcomings of the AV scene than members here realize. The public sees complex gear they feel they could not operate. Truly most probably could not. They feel the gear is architecturally a nightmare, and most often they are right about this as well. They feel they will fork out a lot of money and suspect most often correctly, it will soon end up in the recycling center contributing to electronic waste pollution.
Guys, most who would like to enjoy AV in the home on their terms, are out of luck.