Sony TV + Creative Soundworks Megaworks 250D 2.1 THX Speakers = HUM

I have a Sony KV29-LS60 TV. This TV has an audio out. When I have the TV connected to my Creative Soundworks Megaworks 250D 2.1 THX speakers, i can hear the sound, but there is also a loud hum coming from the speakers. When i connect my DVD player to the speakers with the same wires, there is no hum. Thus the wires are ok i think. When i unplug the antenna cable the hum remains. So the antenna cant be blamed too.
Can anybody think of a solution to this problem ?

I suspect your tv audio out grounding is at fault or even poor solder joint at the RCA to circuit board.

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Creative Megaworks 250D 2.1 THX: How can I find a new remote control & spare satellite(s)?

Hi all,
For years, we have owned and used one remarkable speaker set from Creative:
The Creative Megaworks (Cambridge Soundworks) 250D 2.1 THX-certified speakers!
I have no complaints. The sound this small 2.1 set produces is amazing! The 300 watts (RMS) power can shake the whole house - x50W + 2x75W are more than enough! Movies, music, games, everything sounds great - bass is deep and clear, mid-range is good, high frequences are clear! There's no noise and no distortion (I have connected the system to an SPDIF digital connector on my sound card), the Signal-to-Noise ratio is 99 dB, and the frequency response of the set is extremely good, too!
But I have a problem, now. We have broken, by accident, one of the satellites. Now I have only one satellite, and the bass/amplifier with the remote control... Looks like a . system... ;-)
This system was a present for us. Maybe we were lucky, but I am very happy with the build quality of this Creative spaker set. Until we have broken one of the satellites ourselves, yesterday, everything was OK, and the sound it produced was amazing all these years...
I tried to contact a Creative representative, asking if we can maybe order one (or two) spare satellites fot this set, but the only reply (up to now) was:
"You are out of warranty period. Buy a new speaker set."
Well, we could, I guess...
But:
First: Creative does not have (at present) a similar model, 2.1, THX certified, with digital (SPDIF input), 300W+ RMS, 99 dB Signal-to-Noise.
Second, to throw away such an amazing set just because there's one satellite broken? That would be such pity! :-(
I'd like to buy one (or two) new 250D satellites. I was thinking even that, in the worst case, I can maybe try to order 2 satellites from a Creative Gigaworks S750 set. They have very similar characteristics, 70W rms power, 8 ohms, so maybe this'll work. I was trying to check today if two satellites can be ordered, but with no luck up to now... :-(
Does anyone have any similar experience? What do you do if you accidentally have broken up one satellite from a 2./5./7. expensi've speaker set? Should you throw away the whole set? Try to find similar satellites?
I hope Creative support will help, but I don't have much hope, at present...
Does anyone have experience connecting an S750 satellite to a 250D system? Can I expect any problems? Or it'll work?
Finally, just one more question:
The remote control.
Currently, the remote control unit on our 250D model works OK. But I am a bit worried, if anything happens, that the speaker set can become useless. So I'd like to order one spare new remote control for this model, just in case. Can someone help?
Maybe, even if this speaker set is not produced anymore, a new remote control can be ordered from Creative?
I'd really like to make these 250D speakers produce great sound again!? I am a big Creative fan and Creative 250D 2.1 THX is one of the best sound systems I have ever owned (or heard) and I'd like to do everyting to fix things up...
Thanks for all the help!
Cheers! :-)
PS The satellites of the 250D look very much like these. But these Cambridge Soundworks satellites are more powerful (20W RMS); I was even thinking to order a pair of them, but not sure if they'll fit well. Maybe a pair of S750 satellites (70W RMS) is a better idea? But in any case, if I can find a new pair of satellites, what to do with the remote control?... Please, help!

After exchanging several messages with official Creative Support, I feel a bit disappointed... For years, I have believed that Creative is a company that makes amazing audio products. They probably still do, but now that I am a customer who owns an expensive product of theirs, but with expired warranty, they don't want even to suggest a solution that can work for both parties!
Why is Creative Support so un-supportive? :-( I am still a Creative customer, after all, right?
My communication with Support went nowhere. After it was established that our 250D system is out of warranty period (it is only 2 years, btw), they refused to sell me a replacement satellite (even if they still may have some left in stock, for such cases)!
Finally, I found S700 satellites on ebay and I hope that 2 of them will fit well with the 250D system. Impedance of 250D satellites is 8 ohms (S700 satellites are 8 ohms, too), power is almost the same (250D satellites are 75W rms, and S700 are 70W rms), Signal-to-Noise of both systems is 99 dB, and frequency response is similar, too (250D satellites should be around 50Hz - 8 kHz, I think, and S700 should be around 50Hz - 20 kHz).
Well, my final 'point of worry' was that if anything happens with the remote control, we won't be able to switch on/off the system, even if the sub/amplifier works. So, I tried to ask Support just to sell me one new remote control, if they can. To sell, not to give for free, mind this! ;-)
They refused!
My e-mails are either left un-answered, or the only kind of reply I get is 'We can offer you 10% off our new products'. Well, I don't want to buy a whole new expensi've system, if I can just get 1-2 replacement parts for my old one, and have it working for years! :-)
(Imagine you buy an expensive DSLR camera, you break the LCD screen, and imagine how Canon or Nikon refuse to sell you a replacement LCD, because you're out of warranty! I can't imagine that!)
Well, with Creative it looks like this works only this way: Buy a new system. While speaker system is within its warranty period, Creative may replace defecti've and/or broken parts. Once system is out of warranty period, you can simply throw the system away, as Creative will not sell you replacement parts, no matter how politely you ask (and no matter if such parts are available at Creative or not)!
I hope I will be able to use our 250D system for some more time (after the satellites arrive). I don't know how I can find a new remote control, just to be on the safe side.
And I am not sure I will buy Creative product next time. I will carefully look around and maybe will pick up a product from a company which will offer me not only warranty support, but out-of-warranty support, too. That would be wise.
I like how the high-end Creative speaker systems sound. I simply cannot understand how this company can be successful, if they make such great products, but then refuse to help its customers, when they have problems... :-(

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<FONT color=#330066 size=>If you have a Dolby Digital/DTS/DTS-ES/Dolby Digital EX external decoder (for example, Decoder DDTS-00), you can use it to decode Dolby Digital, DTS, DTS-ES or Dolby Digital EX signals to 5., 6. and 7. speakers from your Sound Blaster X-Fi audio card, Digital I/O Module*, X-Fi I/O Dri've* or X-Fi I/O Console*. With a home theater receiver like Creative Inspire GD580 Speaker System, you can use it to decode Dolby Digital or DTS signals to 5. speakers.
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I'm having this problem: When I connect my Live 5.1 card to the st analog input of the speakers (Megaworks 250D) I hear no sound from the left speaker, but on the 2nd analog input it works fine.
At the same time, no matter what analog input it is, the right speaker sounds weaker and distorted. But when, instead of the sound card, I use some other source and connect it with the same cable, the right speaker sounds good.
I tried to change the cable, but it didn't help.
I really have no idea what's going on, I'd appreciate any help.

I bought mine 8 or 9 months ago and it worked fine until yesterday when I noticed this. I'd say something was wrong with the speakers, if there wasn't the weak bad sound coming from the Live 5.1 card (the old model, not this new 24-bit card) which is heard in right channel (I tested it with headphones too, the same thing happens), so I suspect that the sound card is having its own problems too and I'm gonna test everything again with another sound card.
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Creative MegaWorks 250D, a little problem that sometimes is annoying.

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Regards Niklas.

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Message Edited by Blazter on 05-04-2006 10:34 AM

Cambridge SoundWorks MegaWorks THX 2.1 250D

Hol tengo este sistema de altavoces y queria saber si puedo ampliar mi sistema al mismo modelo del 5.1 osea comprar los 3 altavoces que me falta.
Tambien queria saber si teneis recambios para las bases de los altavoces ya que una la tengo en mal estado y no se sujeta correctamente a la pared
Saludos

This seems to be common amongst creative speaker sets.
I've experienced the same issue (poor build quality on the one thing that'll be used the most) with my Inspire T5900 and T7900 sets.
I don't understand why the controller needs each channel routed through it (or so it seems), and why the replacement part seems impossible to come by - coupled with a year warranty.
Defective By Design imho.
My next set of PC speakers will be Logitech if I can't obtain spares or a datasheet to make my own.

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Hello there, I've been trying to find some info on this on www and this board, but no result so far...
This is my main problem : Digital Input and Analogue input only plays right channel (left channel doesn't work).
Ie, left speaker doesn't produce any sound.
Analogue input 2 works completely fine, plays both channels as supposed so there's obviously no speaker/connection problem
(so I think it's the input - note that I used same cable for both analogue 1/2 when testing).
(Also, using headphones will produce same result, only right channel out for digital+analogue , work completely fine for analogue 2).
I think that I may happened to play both sound inputs (analogue/digital) simultanously at one point around the time when this
error started occuring. Can this have produced something? (why would it?)
Is it possible to fix?
I should add I've tried turning the system off completely and even resting it a few days unplugged...
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Message Edited by MrMarcusAur on 07-20-2009 06:28 AM

Update on the issue: if sound is being played at a "too low" volume (input via 2nd analogue input), eventually;the speaker system will remove left sound from left speaker (as with other two inputs) until I raise the volume quite a lot,
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Message Edited by MrMarcusAur on 07-20-2009 06:27 AM
Message Edited by MrMarcusAur on 07-20-2009 06:29 AM

Megaworks 250D occasional crackling noise

i have recently bought the megaworks 2.1 250D speakers and have noticed that about every half hour when im listening to music, the speakers crackle for about a second. . i have checked all the wiring connections but this doesn't help. its strange because the crackling happens almost every half hour...
why does this happen and how do i eliminate the crackiling? the speakers are connected to my notebook via the sound blaster audigy 2 zs card. when listeing to music through the notebook speakers, i do not experience the crackling.
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Regarding your hissing sound, your pc volume might had set too high probably around 90% and above region. Also check your treble level which also adds in to the hissing.

Soundworks megaworks 5.1 510d help!.

hi all
not sure if my speaker are fautly or something. when i turn the volume to 50% ish the sound get distorted/cracking sound. i have also try different soundcard & pc and still i get same result.
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This is weird. I am getting sound from my subwoofers but no sound is coming from the two speakers. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? I have an Audigy 2 ZS card.

Mattrc,
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http://us.creative.com//support/custsup/
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