View Full Version : Help with speaker not working but speaker is fine!


Bibs4353
09-26-08, 11:20 AM
Hey guys first off i just want to say i am very new to the whole audio video scene but i know pretty much everything about electronics.

Last night i moved into my new place and what better way to break in the new place than blasting my system with a blu-ray.

So i set up my speakers mount them on the wall everything is looking good. I plug the connectors in and every speaker was working. so i place my receiver under my tv stand when i notice that suddenly my back right speaker is not producing any sound. i check the connections in the back and it all looks good.

So then i think its the cord that may have been severed or something when i was moving things, so i get my fancy new speaker wire plug it in.... nothing. so then i assume that its my speaker that may have fried. so i get another speaker and plug it in into the connector, nothing.....

now im getting frustrated. MY QUESTION, what am i doing wrong or is it possible that the connector on the receiver is busted and is there a way to fix it? any other ideas on how to fix this problem would be great.

Thank you for your time reading this

This is an Onkyo HT-S5100

robbyc30
09-26-08, 01:59 PM
If you tried different cables and different speakers, I'd say it's the receiver. Could be something as simple as a solder connection, or it could be something much more serious, like a bad amp or something. If you feel comfortable doing it, take off the cover and check the solder connections to the speaker terminal. Aside from that, I think you need to have it serviced.

Rob

Ratman
09-26-08, 02:04 PM
Or... check the receiver's volume setting for the right rear speaker?

Bibs4353
09-26-08, 03:56 PM
Or... check the receiver's volume setting for the right rear speaker?

i thought of that while at work.. i may have hit some button when moving it to turn the volume down on the right rear. thanks for the advice guys. it could be the solder but this receiver is a month old and has been moved once. it would be some really bad made receiver to have already broken and i trust onkyo in making a decent one.

Ted_und
01-25-09, 06:43 PM
Hi,

Do you know how to fix a computer speaker? I was trying to use the computer speaker temporally while waiting for the Infinity speakers I ordered from Amazon. After I hooked up my computer speaker to my Yamaha A/V receiver, I could not hear any sound from the speaker. I then put the speaker back to the computer and it is not working anymore. Thanks.