Sony DAV-S300 Review

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caribman's Review of Sony DAV-S300 DVD Home Cinema System

28th Nov 2004

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Image Quality
    4 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    4 stars
  • Time Home Cinema System Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Sound Quality
    3 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars

I have the DAV-S300 for 4 years now...It's an US system, I moved to Europe and I am only using it as an amp. and of course region movies. Now I have the following problem. the right front speaker doesn't work...when the device is "cold" it works...after a couple of minutes when the device is warmed up I only hear a very soft static, sound is gone. If I wiggle the connection in back of the player sometimes it works, but never stays on. Anyone have any experience with this on how to fix it? Another forum gave me this advice:

'Probably a bad or at least an intermittent connection. Have you tried swapping out the speaker and wire with the left front to make sure that it is in the receiver itself. If so, try taking the cover of and taking a look inside at the terminal. The fact that it works and then quits as it warms up could be indicative of a cold solder joint that just needs touching up. This should be no big deal to do unless your not comfortable with soldering. If that is the case I would suggest bringing it in for repairs or perhaps to a friend that is capable.'

I did the following:

I opened the device, solder the joints, unfortunately the problem remains...very annoying! I am very happy with the DAV-s300.
I think it's a heating problem...after appr. 5 minutes the sound is gone.

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  • bdb316 on 18th Jan 2005

    I also have the very same problem with this system which is annoying as you wont fined a better system on the market for the money. I've even tried the gentle approach bating it but only seems to work for a short time.

  • Pauliri on 6th Feb 2005

    Same problem here, only that the right channel stopped working completely. There was no correlation between the system warming up and the right channel working. It just stopped working. Once I tried moving the connections and I got it back, but now that is not working anymore. Shame because this is a fine systems.

  • caribman Rank: Lance Corporal on 7th Mar 2005

    Got mine fixed for 80 euros...don't know what they did, so I guess it's not a huge problem. It just went to a local electronic shop...

  • miha21 on 11th Aug 2005

    Hi,
    I've got also a SONY DAV S300. Could you tell me if you solve the the problem with the free region and how?
    Thank you in advance for your response.

  • Acho1 Rank: Lance Corporal on 21st Dec 2005

    Same problem here but with SONY DAV-S400 sony is not good.
    This problem comes from the DRY JOINTS whatever that means. 80 euros is too much i have paid already for the system i don't see a reason paying again to fix it.
    It is a problem with ALL SONY SYSTEMS be aware. Every 2nd system has this problem.