So I finally had some time to myself tonight and figured that I would undertake the task of finally installing my new speaker cables. That task took all of 10 minutes and I settled in to give the system a quick once over. Fired up the 1050, ran the test, no right channel. Figure something must be wrong with the new cables, break out the DMM, nope continuity tests fine. Decide to try the cables in situ, cable tests fine with L channel. Decide to see if problem is limited to front Right, nope Surround Right is dead as well. Decide to check and make sure that it is the amp, not the speaker that is the issue, plug cable into Left channel, tests fine. So I figured maybe it was just bad luck, power down the 1050's main power switch, triple check all connections and fire it back up. Run Test program, no right channel, although this time I detect that there is just the slightest amount of signal leaking through the Left channel even though I'm testing the Right. Try to turn up volume a bit to see what happens, oh dear, the word "System" starts to scroll across the display and it instantly goes into shut down mode (standby). I'm guessing that can't be a good thing. So I'm sad, very sad, that my 1050 appears to have gone tits up. Any suggestions? I'm not sure I can see the value you in shelling out ~$100 in shipping plus whatever parts to repair a it and the timing of this is rather unfortunate.

Sounds like you may have shorted the output, not a good thing. I have had problems with channels dropping from the amp section myself and feel the same about getting it fixed, it just doesn't seem worth it.

Does the pre-amp section still work? My plan is to add an outboard power amp for the intermittent center channel, and I've been using my tube amp for the left/right channel for a long time anyway, but only for movies. Tv watching is done using center and rears only.

Hello.

Doesn't the 1050 have breakers for each output to protect the amps against shorts?

Ack, I really should have updated this but since I solved the problem it wasn't a priority.

Long story short (pun fully intended) there was in fact a short on the output of the right channel. There was a small strand of wire bridging the right rear channel. Now, what's crazy is that I haven't used the rear channels for going on 2 years now and it was only because I tightened the unused binding posts when I installed my new front-channel cables that caused the problem. D'OH! Most importantly I'm now happily enjoying my 1050 again. For a while there I saw a 970/7075 in my near future! I'm hopeful that I found the short before it did any real damage.