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?

128x128doug1234

not to be argumentative, but just add some perspective and balance to this thread, which seems to be trying to make bluesound’s node (and their other products) seem unreliable as a blanket, generalized statement

1 - details matter, specifics matter... i believe early versions of the bluesound vault (which has built in hard drive memory to store music, in addition to stream) had some issues with reliability at roll-out, mostly with the storage drive failing... not good, but this isn’t the node, which doesn't have an internal drive

2 - nodes, from the 2, 2i now n130 are the big big seller... think of it as the honda civic of streamers, for everyman, offers huge value at a very modest price point (yes i know new civics are 25-30k cars now... ugh, but you’ll get my point i hope) - so oodles of them are sold, and some small percentage, very small percentage, have problems... but you go onto honda web user sites, and they are full of complaints about honda civics because only these owners self-select and post angrily... does this mean civics are a crappy unreliable car? heck no, if 300,000 are sold new annually and 200 of them have issues, and 80 of the those customers are pissed and complain bitterly on the forums, should you buy a vw golf instead ’because civics are unreliable garbage’???

this isn’t to minimize the frustration of the few civic or node owners who have ones that go bad, this also doesn’t mean nodes won’t start failing en masse when they stay plugged in 24-7 for 6-7-8 years, doing what they do...

but we should maintain some perspective...

doug I have the ps for the node 2. If you want ...PM me and I will send it to you.

I have a BS Node 2i running continuously since February 2020 with zero problems.