Repair of Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500

Hello all,

I have a Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500 stereo + subwoffer speaker system that stopped working.
I picked it up from my basement after around 6 months of rest down there... After plugin it in, it was working all right. but then I turned the volume a bit up, it gave its final high sound, not from the speaker unit... and havent made a sound since.

It Didn't smell,
The sound I can best describe as sounding like a stone hitting a window without breaking the glass - pretty loud also.

I think it would be a waste to throw it out, have good sound, and I have a feeling the problem is rather simple... so I opened the set, but I don't really know what to do inside it... I hoped to some some capacitor that was clearly sick, but I can't really see it...

I have some photos, perhaps you can see something, or can give me an idea of what to measure.

Here one pcb, the power distribution I think, I suspect it might be the capacitor bottom left of the right heat-dispersions thing.




Backside of power board:


and then there is a second pcb in there, it looks even finer, haven't taken it out so i don't have the back of that:



So, what are the odds that I can repair this given my very limited experience with electronics?
best regards.

 

Thanks for your feedback, I didn't think of replacing it, as I'm not sure there is more complicated than 'just power' going on in this board. But I think you might be right that it just is power.

only thing is that usually it has power all the time... and on the volume control there is a button that will do the actual 'power on' so there is also some standby functionality.

Here is one of two 'output terminals'

I see 12, 5 and 27V potential, but no indication of current.

and here is the other terminal:


I can't smell anything. but the following looks suspicious to me :

over that resistor i measure 790kΩ
if I am using my meter correctly, the capacitor is dead, i measure 0f over it:

(I measure with this selected and just put probes in the backside of pcb where the capacitor sits)

 

btw, here's the terminals from the backside:

 

yes... I was thinking that, afraid it is a bit over my expertise level to fix this nice fellow... Generally he just looks good, only a few areas that looks a bit to brown and then the exploded component i took a picture of.

Its much out of warranty, perhaps 5 years or older, don't really remember.
On the bright side, I will free up a chunk of space from the corner where it is standing

Thank you for your input.
I will use a couple of days looking at it before sending it to the recycle station.