Crackling Problems

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

I've got components up front, 6x9s in the rear off a 4 channel amp. Suddenly, I've got intermittent crackling coming from all four speakers and when I turn it up the sound sometimes jumps between the left and right channels. Any guesses as to what it could be. I hooked up my ipod and a y-adapter to my amp and the same thing happens, so the head unit is out.

Grounding?

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[DukeNut 10+ year member]

possibly a speaker wire is shorting out by touching metal that's not part of the speaker.

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

can that affect other speakers too?

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

Yes it possibly could effect the other channels. If the ground through the speaker wire was a better ground than the actual ground wire on your amp, it would ground as much as possible through the speaker wire. Check to make sure you don't have a bad speaker wire and also check your ground wire at the amp.

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

thanks I'll be troubleshooting later today.