Recent content by Themerkle

Sorry, typo. I meant illiminates* the speakers.  That said, I've pulled the amp and touched up the solder points. I'll try it again tomorrow. 

I got a chance to play around with it a little bit today. I figured out at least one piece of useful information. Currently, the right channel plays, and the left will cut in at high volume, but cut out at low volume. However, if I swap the left and right speaker wires, the issue mirrors itself...

The first time it did it, the right channel cut out. Some air duster into the gain potentiometer got it back on. Every time since, it's been the left channel, and the air duster comes to no avail.  My local installers free - though reluctant- advice was to open it and resolder the potentiometer...

Sony Xav-ax100 HU, Polk Db6502 components, Pioneer GM-5500T 2 channel amp. Speakers are 4 ohm, left channel is wired to left passive crossover and, in turn, to the tweeter and woofer. Same for the right channel to the right x-over. 

RCAs have been checked and are good. Speakers do not touch the chassis. Amp is not going into protect.  That just leaves the speaker test. Unfortunately, I don't have any access to a test speaker at the moment. I'll see what I can do tomorrow. 

Right, I'm with you so far. The "normal" setting on the amp gain represents a 2v preamp outout, and the Sony Xav-ax100 matches that 2v preamp output, so I set the gain there to start. Next, I verified that the full range of frequency tones, from 50hz to a little over 1500hz, was all a clear hum...

I suppose this could very easily belon gin the speaker forum, but I think it's an amp issue. I've searched the forum and did some Google searches for my question but I can only find results for speakers cutting out when the volume is too high. My problem is speakers cutting when the volume goes...