RIP Creative DDTS-100

Colin M | August 30, 2008 | 2:21 pm

Sad day. Electronics from freshman year of college have finally given up the ghost… the Creative DDTS-100 was a pretty awesome little device:

It was essentially a multiplexer / digital multichannel decoder for powered speakers, such as what you would buy for a PC. Think mini-receiver with no amplifiers.  Nate & I used it in the dorms extensively to drive my Klipsch ProMedia 5.1′s, but it seems in the 2 years of transportation and storage since, the forces that be took it out on my poor DDTS-100:

For the non-techies: Broken circuit boards are bad.  Quite bad.

For the techies: Apparently (based on the smell and general not-working-ness) this connected a couple hot traces to a ground plane, shorted the power circuits, and fried the heck out of a bunch of stuff :-/
Rest in peace.

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2 Responses to “RIP Creative DDTS-100”

  1. Hero says:
    October 15, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Hi Colin,

    I’m grieve for your lost.
    In the contrary, I’m a new owner of Creative DDTS-100 here.
    But I already got a problem, the power adapter blew up due to electrical brown out.
    And I’m wondering if you are willing to sell your DDTS-100 power adapter to me?
    Please contact me on my e-mail if you are interested.

    Regards,
    Hr

  2. Hosé says:
    January 27, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Hello Collin,

    I am looking for a remote and a switch box for a ddts-100, since a got a refurbished model without those.
    Are you selling these items? Please contact me.

    grtz,

    Hosé

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