Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

JBL – Home Audio. I think I’m one of the unlucky ones. If you have an Onstage speaker system from JBL, then the thing either breaks or volume gets stuck. For me, it just doesn’t work.
What happens is that there is a chip gets zapped. The conditions are:
a) you have both the on stage and the iPod on at the same time. So its the hot dock scenario.
b) There is a static charge that hits the volume control
c) You are unlucky enough to have the bad chip.
The bad news is that the only way to tell if you have this before it breaks is to go to a special onstagesupport.com and check the serial number.
JBL will fix the thing and you pay shipping.
You’ve been warned!