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I lent my receiver to a friend and in the interim I replaced it with an old Rotel integrated amplifier. I began hearing a "crackling" sound coming through both speakers (especially when I raised or lowered the volume). I hadn't used the Rotel in a while (and it is quite old) so I thought there was something wrong with it. I replaced the Rotel with an old (it's a regular A/V grave yard over here) H/K stereo receiver. Same "crackling".

Any ideas as to what the problem could be?

My next step is to replace all the connectors on the speaker wire.

Thanks,
George