Maintaining Your Speakers; To Clean Your Model 141 Speakers; Troubleshooting - Bose 141 Owner's Manual

Maintaining Your Speakers

To clean your Model 141 speakers

Wipe the Model 141 speaker cabinets clean using a soft cloth dampened with a mild
detergent. Do not allow liquids to spill into the speaker grilles.
No other regular maintenance is required.

Troubleshooting

If you have a problem with your Model 141 speakers:
1. Turn off your amplifier or receiver and check all connections between the speakers and
the amplifier or receiver.
2. Check your amplifier or receiver owner's guide. That component may be the source of
the problem.
3. Use the troubleshooting guidelines below. If they do not solve your problem, contact
your Bose ® dealer to arrange for service. Or, to contact Bose directly, refer to the listing
on the inside back cover of this guide. Bose Corporation will make every effort to
remedy any problem within the terms of your warranty.
Problem
One speaker doesn't play
or sounds defective.
Both speakers do not
play or sound distorted.
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Possible cause
Defective speaker cord.
Defective speaker or
malfunctioning receiver
or amplifier channel.
Defective amplifier
or receiver.
How to find out
Switch the speaker cords
at both ends. Connect the
right speaker cord to the
left speaker and to the left
speaker channel of the
amplifier or receiver.
Connect the left speaker
cord to the other speaker
and amplifier channel.
Switch the cords at the
speaker end only.
October 30, 2001
Solution
If the originally faulty speaker
now plays properly and the
other does not, the cord on
the malfunctioning speaker
is defective.
If the originally faulty speaker
If
still does not play properly,
the speaker is probably
defective. Call Bose or your
retailer to arrange for service.
If the originally faulty speaker
now plays, one channel in
the amplifier or receiver is
probably defective. Try
another receiver.
Reconnect the speakers to
another amplifier or receiver
that is working properly.
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