One rti12 louder than other
Polka_sound
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Hi I have a full Polk rti series 5 speaker setup and I like to listen to music in 2 channel mode with a sub. I have noticed that in 2 channel mode with music one speaker is louder than other. I switched the speakers to the other sides and now the other side is louder. I used the avr management thing to even out the volume but can't seem to get it just right. Is it normal for one speaker to be louder than the other speaker? I bought them 8 months ago and use them occasionally and reasonable volume.
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I should add my left and right speakers are rti12s.
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No, not normal. You've either got a blown tweeter or driver or something wrong with the crossover. To start, swap tweeters and report back.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Before you start swapping tweets, go in the receivers menu under channel levels and see where the front left and right are set at. Chances are one is off a tad. Adjust until to sound is balanced to your ears. Also the sound can sound off balanced depending on where you sit in the room and the speaker placement in that room.HT SYSTEM-
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Is one of your front speakers closer to a corner than the other one? A speaker close to a corner will sound louder due to bass loading.My humble setup...
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Polka_sound wrote: »I switched the speakers to the other sides and now the other side is louder. I used the avr management thing to even out the volume but can't seem to get it just right. Is it normal for one speaker to be louder than the other speaker? I bought them 8 months ago and use them occasionally and reasonable volume.
Sounds like he has done the first steps. I agree, pull top three drivers on the lower volume speaker. Check and make sure all tabs are connected and in phase. -
No, not normal. You've either got a blown tweeter or driver or something wrong with the crossover. To start, swap tweeters and report back.
What do you mean swap tweeters? Take them out and switch them? :O -
Before you start swapping tweets, go in the receivers menu under channel levels and see where the front left and right are set at. Chances are one is off a tad. Adjust until to sound is balanced to your ears. Also the sound can sound off balanced depending on where you sit in the room and the speaker placement in that room.
Hey Tonyb I use the avr to try the balance them out but it's not working oh and they were all at normal settings in the beginning too -
goofyGAguy wrote: »Is one of your front speakers closer to a corner than the other one? A speaker close to a corner will sound louder due to bass loading.
You know you are right! The loud was in the corner! I did swap sides and the loud speaker still was the loudest compared to the other tower
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Sounds like he has done the first steps. I agree, pull top three drivers on the lower volume speaker. Check and make sure all tabs are connected and in phase.
Deronb I will do that but how do make sure there are in phase? Loose connections? The tweeter and midrange work with music I can feel and see the midrange shaking and the tweeter putting out music when I stick my face in front of it -
I will pull them out today and see what I can find
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Polka_sound wrote: »What do you mean swap tweeters? Take them out and switch them?
Yes.Political Correctness'.........defined
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If you are using a AVR, are you using any type of auto calibrate or anything that you had to provide a mic for? I know on my pioneer sc27, where I put the mic sets the balance or makes one side louder because where the mic was put was not exactly center between the speakers.Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
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If you are using a AVR, are you using any type of auto calibrate or anything that you had to provide a mic for? I know on my pioneer sc27, where I put the mic sets the balance or makes one side louder because where the mic was put was not exactly center between the speakers.
Great idea but no. I don't have any audio equalizer software or a calibration mic. Just my ears and the basic channel levels for each speaker in the avr. -
I listens to them over the weekend with the speakers swapped to the other sides and now I'm even unsure than before. Now it sounds like the weaker speaker is the louder.
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Don't take this wrong but, with myself, if my sinus are bugging me, the volume of one side or bass sounds lower. Have you had a cold or sinus issues? Every go under water and your ears feel like they plug up and you hold your nose and blow to get the pressure out? Sometimes for me that helps.
Sometimes when my system sounds off to me but my woman or kids say it sounds fine to them I do that and the bass or level comes back and it was just sinus or head pressure even if i didnt have any kind of sinus dripping it helped.
Sorry to take it in a different direction but its just one of my life expierences on sound.Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
