What's that smell?? Someone please help.

[Trigger]

I have a Sony STRDE835 reciever and I was watching Titan AE (please refrain from making fun of me about the movie or reciever choice) in 6.0 DTS sound... I had it cranked up loud. It sounded crisp and clean - no distortion... however - during the early scene where they were escaping as earth was being blown up, I smelled something that smelled like burning electronics. I've smelled it before when I blew a fuse in a borrowed bass amp. This is the first time I smelled this and I was wondering if it's a sign of things to go wrong down the road or if it's normal to smell this the first time you give your system a work-out? Could this be a burning fuse? Can I replace it easily? Please don't tell me this is because Sony is crap - it's all I can afford - sorry. Anyway - aside from that - it didn't feel unusually hot (I've read alot of complaints that this model Sony can get scorching hot) and the sound didn't distort... Any help?

[BillumillAmerika]

must have been smelling the "earth being blown up" http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubb/smile.gif

[kuroiinu]

If it continues to work fine, I'd say don't worry about it. Perhaps a speck of dust/dirt landed on something that was hot and made that smell. Kind of like what you smell with new electronics.

[ZenerDiode]

Wow, is that like DTS 5.2, with the extra .1 being smell-o-vision? http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubb/wink.gif

[electronix_kid]

What did you eat for lunch that day??? http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Trigger]

Gee... thanks for the straightforward answers guys http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

If anyone knows what this is all about - please enlighten me.

[edclem]

It sounds like you're overheating a component on the circuit board.
I've done it before and fried a receiver, without the receiver feeling hot and without audible distortion.

You might pick up a little fan to put in your equipment rack so that it blows on the heat sinks of your receiver. (something like a computer case fan). They're available at Radio Shack for about 5-10 bucks.

HTH! http://talk.dvdtalk.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Trigger]

Thanks - I wanted a confirmation of what I was suspecting... so it's not really serious, but it should be taken as a warning sign that I'm overworking it? I will get a fan for it. I thought it might be a burning fuse, but I don't suppose the new recievers have fuses.