B.S. Node 2i brick (yet another one)


Mine died after 3 years, like so many others, ordered and replaced the caps (they looked fine) and still doesn't turn on. My problem is a bit different - no red light at all on the top, although I may have disabled led's in the setup, and I'm not sure if that setting carries over to bootup.. Anyway, its dead, does nothing, no lights, no network lights at the cable when I plug it into ethernet.

 

This POS BS company will discount me a whopping $75 on a REFURBISHED unit. This is pathetic service for a $600 piece of equipment. I'll never buy another piece of hardware from Bluesound. Audiophile gear priced like that should last 20 years imo. 

What would you guys do? Try and find a full power supply, or do the aftermarket upgrade? My worry is that my power board is fine and its the main board that's bad. I'm not sure how to test this. I did some high level probing on the power board with an electrical engineer, and it looked ok.. Is there a way to hard reset it via usb or something? Does the service button at the back provide any function?

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I've got one vault over the 3 year mark and 4 nodes that have been flawless. I bought a couple of the nodes on eBay a couple of years ago so I'm not sure of the age of those units.

I’ve had my node for over 7 years now, I’ve put in a linear power supply from Poland, and have never had problems. I have two other nodes in other parts of the house that work flawlessly. Now, software issues yes, I have had my share, but hardware reliability is flawless. 

Would highly recommend the excellent new Zen Stream. Or if you’re willing to use an rpi based unit with upnp/variable software then the new Mercury streamer by Pi2design (well I believe) will blow away the node 2i in sq.