Megaworks HISSING real solution

I wanted to give you guys a possible (tested) solution for this problem because I guess I'm not alone with terrible hissing sound problem out there. It was driving me mad as well Mind you, I am using 3(?) year old Megaworks 50D speakers which worked like magic from day one. Recently they developed the infamous hissing sound. NO it's not how expensi've speakers should work and NO it's not solved (fully) by soldering in a resistor on your speaker power cable. After trying all the obvious solutions I came to a conclusion, that the cause of the hissing sound was located inside the subwoofer cabinet.
To make a long story short, you get hissing on your speakers because of faulty or failing capacitors on your subwoofer internal electronics power supply (at least in my case). This is easy enough to fix by yourself if you have basic soldering skills. You can even check the faulty capacitors with your finger. They have a bulge on the back side (facing you). There are a total of three large capacitors in the Megaworks 50D power supply. Two were failing in mine. I replaced the one that had the larger bulge (because the other one was not immediately availably in my local electronics store, had to order) and the hissing sound went away. I'll replace the second one as well as soon as it arri'ves, but even now I'm not getting any noticeable hiss. The price for both capacitors should not exceed $0.
(picture of Megaworks 50D power supply)
http://soften.ktu.lt/~vytavaic/megaworks-power-supply.jpg
On a side note...
I blame Creative, of course I wonder how they (speakers) held out for that long since they don't even have a human accessible on/off switch which forces me to leave them on all the time. Almost forgot, my volume control failed on the Megaworks as well Along with my failing Audigy Platinum which kept crashing my pc every time I switched cables, **bleep**ty drivers for all these years(!), all I can say is that my trust and respect for Creative has dropped considerably. I switched to using on-board Realtek sound solution, just because I couldn't stand any more of that bull**bleep** (yeah, even these simple Reaktek drivers are better But what can I say... I still can't get enough of that lovely Megaworks sound

OK, here is something extra wonderful.
i called apple and they suggested that i do a pram reset.. So i restarted my 10.5.8 and did the pram reset.
When it started it was at 10.4.11. The Rep had never scene that before and transferred me to a higher level a second time.
Long story, short.... I had to start from scratch with a fresh drive and all.

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Hey there !
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How much megaworks hissing

hi,
I 've bought megaworks thx550 about a week ago. Quite dissappointed with the constant hissing sound that comes from the speakers. I can easly hear the sound about a meter distance.
By the way, hissing is unrelated to the sound card. It comes even if i mute the sound form the remote.
My question is how much noise (hissing) is normal for megaworks? I need to know this because i am in desperate stuation. Where i li've, in Turkey, creative's support next to nothing. I am trying return my set, but they say the noise is normal.

the hissing is actually a normal thing...
it even happens with the most expensi've speakers...
even with the most expensi've stereo and speakers, you will still here a hissing noise.
you should of heard the hissing noise i had before my Creative Megaworks THX 250D Speakers died.

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