Hello All,
I am new here and was hoping someone could help me. I have the following setup at home:
Marantz SR8012
Marantz MM8077 7 channel 150watts per channel amp
klipsch RF-7III towers
Klipsch RC-64III center
Klipsch THX-5002-L rear surrounds
Klipsch RP-502S side surrounds
Klipsch PRO-180RPC atmos speakers x4
I am running the atmos speakers off of the sr8012 and all other speakers off of the amp (mm8077)
Everything was going fine until a week or so ago when I was changing some projector settings with my Apple TV on outputting only a screen saver and no sound what so ever. I was hearing an intermittent crackle or pop for about a span of 10 mins. Then I heard what sounded like a sizzle sound. Alarmed by this I put on a YouTube video and now my left speaker sounds normal but my right speaker is barely putting out sound.
I reached out to klipsch for support since I am still under warranty. They claim the following:
Speakers can work underpowered, but they will eventually fail. I would suggest to get a more powerful amplifier. It is likely that the drivers are bad now because of underpowering, but the same thing will likely happen again if you do not provide more power to those speakers.
Today I decided to look at my audyssey settings and the distance settings look correct and are nearly identical to the left speaker. I also changed the output of the right speaker as you will see below to get it to somewhat match the sound output of the left speaker. I did this with a very low overall volume to ensure I do not clip.
Have the drivers gone bad as klipsch is saying to me because I underpowered them? Is the Marantz going bad?
Below are some screenshots of my settings which includes the output setting I changed to try to match the left front speakers output.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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