I need some help trouble shooting a speaker.

Nattles
Nattles Posts: 6
edited August 2013 in Troubleshooting
I have a Monitor 15C that maybe in trouble. This afternoon I was listening to music when a pop ended my enjoyment. I have an Onkyo tx nr616 as the receiver. It gave me a check your speaker wires warning. After some process of elimination I have a speaker that is giving me 3.3 to 3.7 ohms of resistance and I am fearing that is a bad sign. Is there something else that I can check? I love this speaker and am disappointed at this development.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited July 2013
    Can you post pics of the speakers? Did you check that no wires are not touching?

    EDIT: Are you talking about the 15C center channel? I was thinking you might had the vintage Monitor 15T's. Sorry....got excited there for a second. lol
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,546
    edited July 2013
    After some process of elimination I have a speaker that is giving me 3.3 to 3.7 ohms of resistance and I am fearing that is a bad sign.

    Seems about right to me.
    After some process of elimination

    What process was that?
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • Nattles
    Nattles Posts: 6
    edited July 2013
    I visually checked speaker wires. Not seeing any obvious issues I began removing speakers one by one till the Center channel was found to be the source. I took the wires and checked them closely for kinks, breakage, and continuity. Once I found the wires to be correct I checked the Ohms resistance on the speaker. I have not had this speaker for more then four months. Really sucks that this has happened.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,546
    edited July 2013
    At what volume level were you listening?

    Try hooking up one of the other speakers as the center channel and see if the problem is still there.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    edited July 2013
    I would follow F1's advice. If the issue occurs with another speaker, the pop you referred to (if it came from the area of the receiver) could have been a capacitor giving up the ghost.
    Any smell of ozone (burning electrical stuff) along with the pop?
    "Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."

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  • Nattles
    Nattles Posts: 6
    edited August 2013
    Thanks to ZLTFUL and F1nut. I got in touch with customer service and replaced the crossover. Great service and now I am back in 7.1 surround heaven.
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