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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:50 pm

I have an AIWA stereo system in my computer room. Everytime my cell phone rings it turns on the stereo. Does anyone have any suggestions as how to stop this?

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:56 pm

Alienate all freinds, family and associates. Then no one will call you and the problem will stop Very Happy

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:00 pm

Call a priest, your phone is obviously posessed.
Failing that pm SP, he's a tech guru and will be able to help you out Wink

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

Sling the bastard out the window Smile

sorry not tech minded

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:17 pm

Outfit the stereo & cell w/ tin foil hats, this will protect both from signal interference.

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Chibuike wrote:

Everytime my cell phone rings it turns on the stereo. Does anyone have any suggestions as how to stop this?

Rodus wrote:

pm SP, he's a tech guru

Ok, it's an AIWA stereo, which was cheap Japanese crap until Sony bought the company, now it's Sony crap, do as Doodle Bug said and then buy something decent like a Kenwood, tech problem sorted Very Happy

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1269

Ooohh, give me your # and I'll make your stereo go on at 2am. Twisted Evil

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Umm unplug it?

I used to have a stereo that sat on top of a treddle sewing machine.
It picked up the local taxis.
Bit weird sitting alone in a room being told to collect Effie from the bingo.

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:12 pm

My Mom had a JVC system that would randomly turn itself on. No idea of why it started doing that, really. She did the only reasonable, rational thing that any Mom can do...

...she palmed it off on me and bought herself something nicer.

I "solved" the problem by turning the volume knob all the way down whenever I wasn't listening to music. Who cares if the thing is straight from "The Exorcist"? if you can't hear it, right? Smile

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:14 pm

Get a cat.

They have psychic powers to turn TV's on and off.

I have personally witnessed this.

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:24 pm

Hmmm, SP. I've got an 18-year-old Aiwa amp that still gives me 110W per channel of loveliness on demand.
Perhaps I got one of the defective ones... ?

Also: Phones don't switch it on, as far as I can tell.

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:24 pm

Wish I could help!

I once had a car and every time you turned left, the horn blew. Laughing

I just waved, even if no one was there. Razz

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:55 pm

^^^^I have to walk away from the computer now. The vision of you driving around waving at "no one" is making me laugh too hard. Laughing

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:20 am

Every time the girl in the apartment across the way starts undressing, my neighbor's lights go off.

Magic? Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:27 am

^^^^ Doubtful Laughing

However the stereo problem is probably because of bad RF shielding. See if it is all properly grounded. We see this problem with speakers sometimes sending out feedback right before a cell phone rings.

If it is grounded, then try following some of the above advice. It won't fix anything but you'll have fun.

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:28 am

# WhiteKing419,

I use to have a cat who loved anything electronic. He would answer the phone and drive the telemarketers nuts by sitting there silently listening to them. I use to come home thinking I had messages on my answering machine when in reality it was the cat purring and the telemarketer getting frustrated. Laughing

He also could open the cd drive on my computer and turn on my clock radio. I swear cats are aliens from another planet.

I have resolved the situation. I bought a Bose Wave and am anxiously awaiting its arrival.

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:36 pm

oh please tell me you DIDNT buy a wave?
overpriced peace on overrated clock radio
i used to be a bose dealer there the most overhyped peace of crap there is. there actuly made by zenith and we sold the zenith one too. there the same radio. 99 dollors for the zenith vs 399 for the bose.

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:59 pm

Cell phone blocker? This one is short range. Price is delivered sometime after Lunar New Year.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4355

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:11 pm

^^^ I think this device will keep the stereo on all the time.

Actually, the tin foil hat isn't such a crazy idea; as Stoker pointed out, it may be a case of bad shielding (is the case made of plastic? If so, try to open it and shield the inside with alu foil and connect that to ground - this may help)

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:57 pm

^^ Make sure it's unplugged first Laughing

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:34 pm

I think you should generously ship it off to one of your lads and then call them at 3am. They would be pretty happy for a while. Wink

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:03 am

Put on your tin foil underwear the problem is not the stereo. The problem is the cell phone. When it receives a call, it starts transmitting all over the electromagnetic spectrum. I bet your stereo only does it with that one cell phone. I hope you don't carry your cell phone in your pants.

@packman. I don't think Zenith is making anything anymore but I have a funny story about some Bose speakers. I had a VP once think I liked him. He invited me over for dinner and to see his cats. He also showed me a cat clawed Bose speaker that he said cost him over a thousand dollars. I told him no problem, just drive about three blocks from work and buy a dollar speaker and put it in. What about matching the rest of the speakers. I told him yeah, you could pay more but the Bose exact replacement raw speaker was a dollar. He comes over the next day after lunch and has me drive over with him to buy the speaker. I was wrong. The exact speaker was 67 cents and the nicer ones were just under two dollars. This was for the Bose 901s. He gets the nice one even though I tell him to go OEM equivalent. Two weeks go by and he has me over for dinner again. He's got tools but no idea how to replace a speaker. I take it apart and he's stunned that its all particle board. When you pay for advertising in Hi Fi mags what do you expect? I'm was a butt sucking wonder at the time and mumble something about higher density and better quality control, not the fact that he was a fool and got parted from his money. Two weeks later, I find myself putting in the cheap speaker into the enclosure because the two dollar one was too loud.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:41 am

Your mission, should you decide to accept it is to take apart the AIWA system. There is a hidden film there. This is top secret stuff, man. You see, your system was supposed to be sent to Iran as part of a spy ring, but they switched your system with theirs, so your system arrived in Tehran by accident.

So now, what happens is that the Iranians are REALLY TICKED. They're calling your system to try to find it. If you see some REALLY ANGRY middle eastern men hanging around your house, act like nothing's happened.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:59 am

Chibuike wrote:

I bought a Bose Wave and am anxiously awaiting its arrival.

I have one in my kitchen and absolutely love the sound quality!!!! You can turn that thing up really really high with zero distortion.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:34 am

Chibuike wrote:

He would answer the phone and drive the telemarketers nuts by sitting there silently listening to them.

Is your cat for hire? I need to try something different from my usual "You're getting paid to call me right? Here's the deal, I charge $50 an hour to listen, $75 to answer, and $150 to answer truthfully and not screw with your database or statistics. Hello? Hello?" routine. Laughing

BTW, you should've bought Marantz. I can sit my phone on top of any component and get zilch interference.