Right channel speaker overpowering my left

HTguru1982

For whatever reason, it seems my right RT1000P is a few decibels louder than the left. As far as I can tell, all of my drivers seem to be working correctly. When running the auto calibration on my AVR, it doesn't want to change a thing. In fact, when running the test tones, both speakers sound perfectly balanced. But during normal listening, the right side always seems to overpower the left. I haven't swapped the speakers yet as I seem to have hurt my back at work and lifting a 50lbs speaker doesn't sound particularly fun. Of course, when my back is feeling a bit better, I do plan on swapping them to see what I find.

On the left side of my room, there is a wall. On the right side, the room opens into the kitchen so there's nothing to really reflect sound on that side. So is it even possible that the layroom out of the room is the culprit? I wouldn't think so. Or is more likely that the crossovers on my speakers are in need of refreshing?

At the moment, I have set the delay and channel levels so that the volume difference is not noticeable at all. But it still bothers me that I had to increase the left channel by 3.5db to compensate when, if anything, it should be the right channel I should be increasing because that side has no wall. Am I incorrect in assuming so?

nguyendot

Caps going?

HTguru1982

That's what I'm thinking. I have some crossovers for them that I just purchased on Ebay that I'm hoping to update. I'll most likely send them to Trey as I don't want to mess anything up. I'll probably have him update all of my crossovers.

wayne3burk

Maybe the left ear needs irrigatin'. Until you swap them between the left and right you won't know for sure. In my family room the right speaker is open to the eat-in kitchen and the left speaker is near a perpendicular wall. In my experience the left speaker is louder due to the reflection off the wall.

Take care of that back.

Cheers,
Wayne

monepolk

I guess you could swap the channels on the AVR, if the back permits, to make sure it's not the AVR.

HTguru1982

Thanks for the help guys. I did get to move the RT35's up front and after going back to the default level and distant settings, I did not notice any volume difference between them. So there's gotta be something off about the one RT1000 speaker. Like I said, the midrange driver and tweeter both seem to be doing their job. I have a few extra drivers lying around so I'll play around with it this weekend. I'm sure it's just the crossover.

Thanks again!

nguyendot

Check the binding posts for corrosion as well.

HTguru1982

Well, I decided to mess around with things this afternoon. I was able to move the RT1000's and found that the sound difference does indeed stay with the speaker. I didn't think it would matter but since I had a spare laying around, I decided to swap the tweeters out. Turns out it was the tweeter after all. The old tweeter still works in a sense but it's just lower in volume than the other.