Hello everyone, I bought an HT-SS2300 and last week I noticed that my FR speaker makes a clacking noise on higher volumes leading me to believe that the speaker is blow. I actually have 15 days on my warranty still left so I called Sony for a repair but unfortunately, I would have to send in my entire system, sub woofer included to get a single speaker serviced. So I continued to call and find out that Sony sells this speaker alone but it costs $51 which is probably comparable to the cost it would be to ship my entire system in for repairs. I continued to shop online a found a 5 piece speaker set from BDV-280 going on eBay for $50. I contacted support again to ask if switching out those speakers with mine as a set would work and they told me yes. I'm pretty confident now that such a replacement would be possible but wanted to double check for any opinions here. The Sony speakers are rated 3 ohm impedance on almost all their HTIB systems and usually the set as a whole is labeled 1000 watts. Also if anyone owns an older and newer version of Sony's HTIB I wanted to ask if there is a difference in quality between the speaker sets. I noticed that mine have a metal grill on the front in seem to be of higher build quality than the newer versions which have a cloth front cover. Essentially, will i loose quality by making the switch to a newer speaker system (seem counter-intuitive to even ask). Both systems are rated 1000 watts so both should sound the same, correct? I am just worried that over the years Sony could have gone with a cheaper manufacturing process and the theater systems may have suffered.
Anyways, thanks for reading and I'm looking forward to the options before I make a decision and purchase.
