AIWA TS-CD20 Speakers

[LindaD]

Hi. Hopefully you guys can help me because I can't figure it out. I've had these speakers, AIWA TS-CD20, for quite a few years now. My husband got them for his laptop and now I have them since my old ones broke, for my desktop. The sound is awesome but for some reason, and I just timed them now, they go on "standby" or whatever in about 50 seconds. I am a transcriptionists and it's SOOOOO frustrating when I walk away for about a minute, come back and have to hit my pedal a few times just to "get the speakers going again". I have looked under my sound options, i've looked under Multi-Channel Sound Manager. There is nothing anyway that says to put them on standby or take them OFF standby.

And of course can't find the manual and can't find one on line.

[tg77master]

Check your pwer saving settings in the control panel and set everything to "ALWAYS ON" not the default "laptop" power saving mode. Also, I would disable any screen savers to see if that's part of the cause.

[LindaD]

Hi. Yes, I have everything to power always on and also, i have NO screen saver set...

[tg77master]

Are you playing back CD audio or mp3 files?

[LindaD]

I'm a transcriptionist and i listen to ALLLLL types of files all day; wav/dss/mp3/wma. Right now, when I got the email saying I got a new reply, I was typing, WITH SOUND. That quickly, from the time I stopped typing to the time I started typing the reply here, I'm looking over and see that the light is off and the speakers are "not on". Now, if I hit the foot pedal or if I get a "sound", it will come back on again. Yes, it's like a standby/hibernate/power save type thing but nothing is set. It does NOT hibernate or anything DURING use. Only when I'm not using the sound.

Funky, huh?

[tg77master]

Sounds very odd to me. I have 99.9% ruled out anything to do with Windows.. It sounds like it's something to do with your speakers or they are defective..

[LindaD]

yea, kind of figured that. It's sooooooooooooooooo frustrating. And I was watching the light earlier....it fades out, just doesn't turn off....

[tech1]

If this is something that just started recently, or is it an ongoing problem? If it just started, I ould say they are going bad. If it's always been like this, it's probably some internal settings or the speakers.

[LindaD]

it's been for a while but I'm just getting more frustrated now...

[GZsound]

Sounds like it's time for some new speakers.