Surround sound speaker problem..please help!

[Skav]

I noticed a problem yesterday when watching a dvd. The rear left speaker seems to make a "clicking" noise. It sounds like as if, say someone lightly taps the speaker shell with a coin. The dvd in question had two surround formats, one stereo and one 5.1.

If I put it into stereo, the clicking in the left speaker starts but when switched to 5.1, there is no clicking noise.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

 

[JeffD2.]

Sounds like a cooked driver. I'll assume when running 5.1 the crossover is engaged and sending bass to the sub, thus no click. If you have sound from the rears in stereo mode, that's not stereo, it's Dolby PLII kicking in. Make sure the crossover is active on the AVR in that mode. Set rear speakers to small on the AVR. That'll buy you some time.

 

[Skav]

Jeff,

yes, there is no click and the sub works when in 5.1. When there is a stereo source for DVD (not music CD, strangely), the system automatically turns on DPL 2 mode and cannot be turned off, thus I am forced to watch the film in DPL 2 anyway.

But what I meant was that the source was stereo, turned into Pro-logic of course, and that's when the clicking in the left back speaker occurs.

When you say the driver has been cooked, you mean it's been damaged? I always listen to my surround at a loud volume...74 DB with my system's max capability of producing at 86DB.