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Fixing your own gadgets, from HomePods to Harmony remotes
The Vergecast
HomePod Deathfarts - The Most Irreparable Apple Product Ever
There is too much what's called DC offset being generated by the amplifier and sent into the subwoofer speaker. For a while, nobody knew how to fix this. I did a whole bunch of Googling just DC offset DC offset in amplifiers. They said DC offset will get worse with heat. That was my Eureka moment. And that's when I found those capacitors that tended to go bad over time,. slowly start to filter less and less DC voltage before that audio signal is sent through the amp and to your subwoofer speakers.
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