What is going on with HifiEngine?

[rayma]

Just ask. Lots of people can access these, and it only takes a couple of minutes.

 

[ManUtd]

HiFiEngine does not allow external links to a file. You have to get it through their home page.
The KEF PSW-2500 service manual is attached here.

Thank You.

 

[as_audio]

This is where all their paranoia started a few years back.Electrotanya mirrored most of the hifiengine database.That's a hungarian site that shares his servers and ip's with some Romanian networks and that triggered both our countries being banned like 5...6 years ago.They litterally blocked all ip adresses coming from my country for many years.I had an account on hifi engine for years before that...since then I can hardly download few schematics, but for most they ask me to make a new account then they block my access after I do it from here.

Are you sure this is the reason ? It would require the removal of a watermark everywhere,
i. e. first page of each pdf. I know one owner of Elektrotanya and maybe I will ask him.

The problems are known for ages. 2015 I wrote here :

In the meantime I will not recommend HIFIENGINE any more.

Being a valuable site I do not understand their policy.
They cancel hints to other websites with useful information or better scans for a particular unit.

I have been completely banned after trying to help somebody in their "requests forum",
hinting at a readable diagram in Elektrotanya.

This happened after I contributed tons of material: service manuals, diagrams
and repair tips over the years.

Now they call me "Anonymous" or "(not verified)".

"Thanks again to as-audio for the scans": it will not happen again.

There is no particular responsible webmaster, he is really anonymus.
The site is owned by some company.

All in all a strange form of british behaviour and not adequate.

 

[dreamth]

How do you know it's a british site? I always thought it is smerucan...Is this a new mirror?
https://www.hifiengine.info/

 

[as_audio]

I talked about https://www.hifiengine.com/ and think I made a "lookup" at the time.

No idea what Hifiengine.info is. I tried to open some documents as example, but no
success, error "Not Found .. The requested URL / ... was not found on this server.

Have a look at https://www.hifiengine.info/copyrights.htm .

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[ManUtd]

I talked about https://www.hifiengine.com/ and think I made a "lookup" at the time.

No idea what Hifiengine.info is. I tried to open some documents as example, but no
success, error "Not Found .. The requested URL / ... was not found on this server.

Have a look at https://www.hifiengine.info/copyrights.htm .

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Being a member for eight years i forgot my Password, then i was lost.
Now i Am banned. This site is a joke.
Will never visit them again. I Will do my request elsewere.

 

[StevenOH]

hifiengine.com info:
https://www.zoominfo.com/c/hifi-engine/351795854

 

[ManUtd]

hifiengine.com info:
https://www.zoominfo.com/c/hifi-engine/351795854

????

 

[biosfera]

I´ve had the same problem for the last few weeks:

Blocked​

Proxy Server/VPN Service
Sorry, but this action is not possible from cloaking services such as proxies or VPNs.


I´ve checked with my internet provider, and there is no cloacking services, and no VPNs on my machines. I managed to log in using my iPhone on 4G though. So I guess HiFiEngines log in settings are too strict now.

 

[Ultima Thule]

I did read HifiEngine's site policy page, and scrolling all the way down to "Abuse" subsection they mention using Stop Forum Spam service, so it can be worth and check if ones IP address is on their black list, link below.

https://www.stopforumspam.com/removal

My IP address is ok, but I don't have any account registered with them, I have tried some years ago but failed so have given up on them.
A quick look at their registration page it seems like new registration is currently closed for maintenance, I will give it a new try soon.

 

[StevenOH]

Another thread discussing HFE issues:
https://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=398980

But for me in Ohio everything works fine.

 

[HomeMadeSin]

For me, I get blocked if I use Duck Duck Go but works fine with Chrome. So perhaps privacy/ad blockers/etc

 

[wasja78]

Hi guyes,

could anyone please, who has a login to the site of course, download a multilingual owners manual for Aiwa ST-R22 from hifi engine from here: https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/aiwa/st-r22.shtml, because I cannot register a new account, unfortunatly. I was looking everyther for this manual, it exist only on this site...

 

[rayma]

This should be it.

 

[wasja78]

Thank you very much, rayma!
Could you be so kind and download anover two manuals?! I want to see the difference between them.

 

[Kay Pirinha]

Being a member for eight years i forgot my Password, then i was lost.
Now i Am banned. This site is a joke.

Same here. Once having forgotten my password, I'm not able to log in again, nor to create another account. Supposedly I'll never be able to do it again. The password restore function doesn't work at all. It's somewhat paranoid.

Besat regards!

 

[rayma]

Thank you very much, rayma!
Could you be so kind and download anover two manuals?! I want to see the difference between them.

Here you go.

 

[wiseoldtech]

https://elektrotanya.com/keres is where I sometimes get my service info (among other sites).
Screw that hifiengine crap site..... and it's sister site vinylengine.

 

[wasja78]

Here you go.

Thank you very much, rayma! You are the best!

 

[wasja78]

Thanks wiseoldtech, I look also on this page and I found the service manual for three components together, I thought there is a separetly more detailed service manual only for this component.