paradigm titan v.3 problem

[mcghee33]

today I was listening to the john mayer blu ray and when I turned my onkyo hs560 to 50 I heard a weird "pop" sound from my front left speaker. I turned it down and it went away. But when I turned it back up it came back. I thought at first maybe it was my receiver clipping but it only comes out of the front right. I thought that I blew the speaker but when I removed the back and looked at the speaker it did not appear that the seal was broken. I still think I blew it. But at low levels it sound perfectly fine, Any advice? and if I did blow it can it be repaired for a reasonable price? Thanks

 

[TLS Guy]

today I was listening to the john mayer blu ray and when I turned my onkyo hs560 to 50 I heard a weird "pop" sound from my front left speaker. I turned it down and it went away. But when I turned it back up it came back. I thought at first maybe it was my receiver clipping but it only comes out of the front right. I thought that I blew the speaker but when I removed the back and looked at the speaker it did not appear that the seal was broken. I still think I blew it. But at low levels it sound perfectly fine, Any advice? and if I did blow it can it be repaired for a reasonable price? Thanks

I doubt it is your speaker, I bet it is a wiring whisker or the front left amp channel. It would be just about impossible for a speaker to develop that kind of fault. Switch the wiring over from left and right speakers, so that the right speaker is now connected to the left output and vice versa. While you are about it make sure you have no shorts or whiskers in the speaker wiring.

If the fault now moves to the right speaker, it is the Onkyo.

What you describe is a very typical symptom of an output device breaking down, They often arc through the semiconductor and eventually weld a bridge inside the power transistor. When that happens the device is shorted and then the receiver goes into permanent protection mode, until repaired.

 

[j_garcia]

If you swap the speaker to the other side and the problem follows it, it is the speaker. If it doesn't it is something else - wiring or amp.

 

[mcghee33]

Still a problem

Thanks so much for the help. So I did what you guys said and i flipped the speakers and checked for frays in the connections and when i did this i began to get the popping noise from both my front R and L titans. So I guess this means it is the receiver? All the advice is much appreciated

 

[TLS Guy]

Thanks so much for the help. So I did what you guys said and i flipped the speakers and checked for frays in the connections and when i did this i began to get the popping noise from both my front R and L titans. So I guess this means it is the receiver? All the advice is much appreciated

That is unfortunate. It seems strange to me that two channels are involved so close together. Any chance that it was both channels all along but you did not notice?

I can't seem to find anything on an Onkyo hs560. Are you sure that number is correct?

Those speakers seem to be a standard two way, and I would not have thought they would present an unusually difficult load. I did however run into a number of requests for the impedance curve of your speakers, but I was unable to locate one.

Unfortunately the Paradigm site is most unhelpful, with very limited and pretty useless specs on this speaker.

I suppose it is possible that there is something about these speakers that your Onkyo does not like. How long have you been using this combination? Also were you playing your system very loud when this problem started?

 

[mcghee33]

yes I did have the volume up loud. I'm sorry I did have the model number wrong it is the ht-r540. I went thru my settings again and I found that my fronts were set to large speakers which I beleive was the problem because it was trying to push the lowest frequencies down to 20hz to the fronts and that's why I got the popping thru both speakers

 

[TLS Guy]

yes I did have the volume up loud. I'm sorry I did have the model number wrong it is the ht-r540. I went thru my settings again and I found that my fronts were set to large speakers which I beleive was the problem because it was trying to push the lowest frequencies down to 20hz to the fronts and that's why I got the popping thru both speakers

Now it makes more sense. You may have bottomed your woofers, and that was the popping. Do the speakers sound OK? Do you still get the popping after resetting the speakers to small with an 80 Hz crossover?

 

[j_garcia]

I've run those guys of a small 20w bedroom system with great results (full range), so you don't need a lot of power to drive them at all. I've owned 3 pairs of them; good speakers.

These guys are OK run full range, however with a lower power receiver it is definitely not a good idea. Any sub at all will help immensely.

 

[mcghee33]

yeah the speakers sound just fine now and I am having no popping what so ever! I have 2 other questions tho.
1. Is it ok to turn "double bass" on? if so should I
2. When I change channels on my Tivo I get a crackling noise through all my speakers? This was happening way before I had the popping problem

 

[TLS Guy]

yeah the speakers sound just fine now and I am having no popping what so ever! I have 2 other questions tho.
1. Is it ok to turn "double bass" on? if so should I
2. When I change channels on my Tivo I get a crackling noise through all my speakers? This was happening way before I had the popping problem

I would not turn on double bass, and the Tivo problem you need to ask Tivo about.