Why do my rear speakers have problems?
Posted by: HuwJ on 20 October 2008
I currently use a Yamaha AV amp for my surround speakers and my SuperNait for my front pair.
It may be a coincidence but, after about 3 years of use, the woofers on my rear speakers broke. I use good cable and I don’t really drive them that hard.
In my old house, on my old system, with a Sony AV amp running the surrounds and Meridian driving the front pair I had one of the rear speakers go after about 3 years.
They were different makes of rear speakers on both occasions.
Anyone had similar problems?
Posted on: 21 October 2008 by garyi
My e800 has settings for large rears or small rears, if set to large then the full spectrum of sound will be sent.
If your speakers are small, make sure you specify this.
Also mine are perilously close to young fingers which occasionally need to be slapped away, have you some kids knocking about?
Posted on: 22 October 2008 by HuwJ
Gary, I don't have young kids. My first set of rears were high on a wall. My current speakers are on quite high stands. I use good quality speaker cable too. The rears are set to large now although I think they used to be set to small previously.
Munch, I set up one of the buttons (AV) on the SuperNait and followed the instructions in the manual. I have analogue pre-outs to the S/N input. I don't remember exactly what I did but it seemed straight forward and worked straight off. Anything I should pay particular attention to? The volume level is set at about 20 to / quarter to 12 for most of the time when playing CDs.
Regards,
Huw
Posted on: 22 October 2008 by garyi
Unity gain should not effect you rears.
Posted on: 23 October 2008 by joe90
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I currently use a Yamaha AV amp for my surround speakers
There's the problem.
The gutless wonder of all brands. Bright, thin, hollow, aggressive, dry, splashy and sloppy sounding amps.
The Bose of components.
Your Yamaha will have trouble properly controlling speakers when compared to other amps in the same class.
They're simply poorly built, dreadful sounding and well marketed.
Posted on: 24 October 2008 by HuwJ
The same thing happened with a Sony and I'd say the Yamaha sounds significantly better than my Sony did.
The rears don't really get pushed that much on a regular basis and I have not noticed any lack of control from them. Though I agree they could not control my front speakers in stereo as well as my SN can.
I will eventually get a higher quality amp (when I've recovered from buying my speakers) but am stuck with it for now. Which AV amps or processor and power amps for the centre and rears would you suggest?
Would the NAPV 175 work with the pre-outs from the Yamaha as a stop gap? The SN o/p 80 wpc and the 175 50w. Though I guess ideally a NAP200 & NAPV145 would be an expensive aternative. There don't seem to be any HD audio processors available at a reasonable price.
Cheers,
Huw
