Airline fu#!ed up my TF10

[forbigger]

I was on the way up to US from Asia and transit at HK and bought airline adapter. As soon as the plane took off I plug the TF10 with the adapter into the airline seat. I leave the TF10 for a while and do some reading. When I'm ready to watch some inflight entertainment, I hold the left IEM and it burned my hand. Apparently the plastic right in between black and blue part melted (in the inside part) and I can faintly smell burning smells

When it cold down I tried and have lost the bass responses. There's no bass at all on left channel. I guess the low driver was burned. I dont have any idea if I buy a screwed up airline adapter or its the headphone port thats causing this.

Now perhaps a member here have some leftover amazon deals that they willing to part with some profit ? I have grown to like it a lot and been using it constantly as my travel rig. With the recent purchase galore of headphones I'm very low on cash......

[Dusty Chalk]

That sucks, dude. Engineers correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like DC -- nothing to do with the adapter.

[n_maher]

Yup, sounds like DC offset. Probably doesn't take much to cook a set of IEMs.

[forbigger]

so who's fault is it? The airline ?

[Dusty Chalk]

I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. I mean it's your fault in as much as you trusted the airlines and stuck your plug in their jack; but in your defense, unless there's some sort of crossover, even their headphones should not have been able to handle DC offset -- it would have fried theirs too.

[forbigger]

the dick wit steward with the stupid grin just handed me another set of their headphone and i use it, no probs there.....

[mypasswordis]

Be glad he actually helped you and tried to look amicable. A fucking dipshit of a twat tried to get me kicked off the plane when I told him not to move my luggage in cargo holds all over the fucking plane.

[Ypoknons]

I mean it's HK airport - stuff is expensive but legit. Plus consumer protection laws here are crap anyways even if the adapter was at fault, but then again I'm a loooong way from finishing my law degree.

[thrice]

I mean it's your fault in as much as you trusted the airlines and stuck your plug in their jack;

Let that be a lesson to us all.. don't go stickin' your plug in public jacks.

[Torpedo]

TFT that's why only stick my plug on the safe jacks I have at home...

[forbigger]

is there such thing like plug condoms ? if so, is it safe enough.....

[The Monkey]

Sounds to me like you tried to create an international incident that will lead to the banning of IEMs on all flights. Well done.

[forbigger]

well, either ban iem or there's a new clause on every purchase of iem that the warranty void if u stick it on the airline in seat jack

[manaox2]

is there such thing like plug condoms ? if so, is it safe enough.....

adapter with inline film capacitor?

[forbigger]

anyway, just got off the phone with UE support. They promised to send me a replacement once they got my fried driver. Will cross my fingers on that.

[Dusty Chalk]

is there such thing like plug condoms ? if so, is it safe enough.....

Yes, it's called abstinence.

[laxx]

anyway, just got off the phone with UE support. They promised to send me a replacement once they got my fried driver. Will cross my fingers on that.

Very nice of them.

[Landis]

anyway, just got off the phone with UE support. They promised to send me a replacement once they got my fried driver. Will cross my fingers on that.

My store does some good business with Logitech/UE and their handling of issues like this is usually pretty satisfactory. I know for example if we have any problems with our cheap Logitech speakers, they get a rep to bring by replacements in a day or two-- not so great given other company's responses.

Although, I tried speaking to the Logitech rep one time about us carrying the higher end universal UE IEMS and he had next to no idea what I was talking about.