Possibly Broken reciever with new speakers-Danger?
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My sisters reciever shorts out using her speakers at medium volumes and only one speaker emits a sound. I brought her receiver to my place and I plan on using it with my speakers, which do work. But is there a danger hooking up the possibly broken receiver to my speakers?
Its possible her speakers are the problem and not the receiver, which is what I want to test.
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Re: Possibly Broken reciever with new speakers-Danger?
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I wouldn't try that receiver out on your nice speakers. Take your sister's speakers and swap the good for the bad, see if it's the speaker, the amp's channel, or whether the receiver will blow the good speaker.
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I agree. Don't risk your own speakers. Make sure you're not shorting the amp channels with stray speaker wires, also.
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I wouldn't risk it. How did the problem show up? Was everthing working just fine and then one day it was shorting out?
Yes, the speakers could be at fault, a bad tweeter or driver would definitly cause a short. Even a single strand of speaker wire would cause this.
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Re: Possibly Broken reciever with new speakers-Dan
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Before you get too much further, do the simple stuff. Check the connections on the speaker wires. The stray strand tleigh mentions above is a likely culprit. Also, inspect the power cord to see if there are any breaks with bare wire showing.
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Re: Possibly Broken reciever with new speakers-Dan
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In reply to:
Also, inspect the power cord to see if there are any breaks with bare wire showing.
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Re: Possibly Broken reciever with new speakers-Dan
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you should try testing the receiver with some garbage speakers first---see if someone will let you borrow a pair of bose....ron
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Re: Possibly Broken reciever with new speakers-Dan
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well I went ahead and tried it despite your advice and common sense.
The reciever works, and so do all of my speakers(5.1 set up).
Unfortunately the HK AVR 20 my sister gave me is 5 years old and is fairly crappy for surround sound. When playing music the Qs8s sound terrible.
thanks for the concern though
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