Let's do a group buy, send it to Bob's Electronics (specializing in TV and HAM radio repair) to get modded*, and let Rick know what happened. I think it'll go a little like this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpEiE3-CYGA
* (the mod was a simple tightening and re soldering of the input jack, which was causing an intermittent shorting of the signal. It was a bit loose. Bob gave an honest appraisal of the work and charged minimally for it as opposed to shipping it back and forth to Wizard, getting charged a fortune with no disclosure on what the actual repair involved).
Someone had to say it