Hi fella's,
I come with my head hung low. I'm sorry my first post is asking for something but it is. I've been lurking for a while, but now I've got a BIG problem...
My Harman Kardon AVR - 525 has no audio output.
Here's the story, my 2 year old daughter got ahold of the remote (while everything was powered up) and now my receiver has no audio. All of the front panel lights and displays work, all of the remote funtions work (as far as the display is concerned) but no sound. The unit will switch surround modes (op the display), Nothing from the speakers on any input; Am, Fm, DVD, DirecTv. Nothing. Not even the little thud I get from the subwoofer when the receiver is powered up after the sub amp.
Nothing.
I tried to turn it off for awhile.
Nothing.
I unplugged it for twice the lenth of time the manual says to.
Nothing.
The next step (as far as the manual is concerned) is to perform a factory reset.
Now this erases EVERYTHING, ie... all programed inputs, outputs, radio stations, channel delay settings, channel output level, ect..ect...
I paced around for quite awhile before I actually did it..
NOTHING.
The unit is not under warranty anymore.
On the 'off-chance' that every audio input feed into the receiver happened to fall out at the same time, I checked that. Ditto for the eight output speaker wires. Obviously that doesn't/didn't happen.
No electrical storms in the area. No power failures. (surges unknown, but every other electronic device in the house functions)
I listened to it less than hour before I left, and it worked fine. A few hours later (son was playing xbox) daughter grabbed remote and pushed some buttons. No audio, my son INSTANTLY yelled at mom, HEY, where'd the sound go to??
I don't see how pushing a button could do this, but that's one helluva coincedence [sp].
Any help/suggestions would be great.
Bob