Sound level

 

New member
Username: Rhyspect

Post Number: 3
Registered: Oct-05
one of my speakers sounds louder and clearer than the other.The balance is correct and I have checked the cable. Any ideas on what the problem is?
 

Platinum Member
Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 10232
Registered: May-04
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Uh-huh. Are they still under warranty?
 

New member
Username: Rhyspect

Post Number: 4
Registered: Oct-05
no the warrenty ran out about 6 months or so ago
 

Platinum Member
Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 10233
Registered: May-04
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How much cash you got?
 

New member
Username: Meatspin

Post Number: 7
Registered: Apr-07
who knows
 

Silver Member
Username: Alright_boy

Post Number: 175
Registered: Jan-07
Might be speakers, could be the source. Try connecting another set of speakers to your receiver/amp to help rule it out as the problem.
 

Gold Member
Username: Frank_abela

Berkshire UK

Post Number: 2049
Registered: Sep-04
rhys,

One thing you can do is swap the speakers over. Why swap them rather than just the cables? Because room boundaries can affect a speaker enough to make one seem quieter than the other. This is what the balance control is really for - if you have a room where the left side is appreciably different to the right side - e.g. the left speaker is close to the corner and the right speaker is in free space - then you can perceive a significant difference in level with the balance set in the middle. The correct way to deal with this is to play a mono signal through the system and redress the balance so it comes from the centre between the two speakers.

If you swap the speakers over and the same speaker still sounds louder, then it's not room interference and it's one of the speakers. If the speakers are biwirable (i.e. 2 sets of connections on the back) and you are single-wiring, check that all four terminals are screwed tightly - your treble unit may not be making a connection on the less clear, duller one.

If there is no way the room difference is accounting for the problem, then the other cause could be an imbalance in the electronics, as mentioned earlier. You can check this by swapping over left and right interconnects between source and amp (mono signal again). If there's no change it's not the CD player. Swap over the speaker cables and if there's a change it's the amp. If there's no change it's the speaker again...

Regards,
Frank.
 

Gold Member
Username: Thx_3417

Bournemouth ...

Post Number: 3538
Registered: May-05
If you have mismatched loudspeakers placed in three positions over the front and at the same height placed off the floor about mid height of the room with equal spacing between them, then yes they will sound tonally different.

Equalization is the only way to solve this and for that you'll going to need separate amplification an RTA and a SPL db metre, it takes hours if not days to get done right.
 

Gold Member
Username: Joe_c

Atlanta, GA USA

Post Number: 1467
Registered: Mar-05
Earth to Ashley, come in, over.

























nobody home
 

Gold Member
Username: Thx_3417

Bournemouth ...

Post Number: 3542
Registered: May-05
Houston, here come back over (((Bleep)).
 

Gold Member
Username: Nuck

Post Number: 6896
Registered: Dec-04
Coon, if the problem just happened, I doubt that placement is an issue.

Back to the cash/replacement parts dept.
 

Silver Member
Username: Gavdawg

Upstate, New York

Post Number: 619
Registered: Nov-06
how did you make out?
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