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<blockquote data-quote="Disarmer" data-source="post: 8375970" data-attributes="member: 610630">Last season, we ended with only 4/6 speakers in the boat working. Now that it&#039;s about time to pull it back out again, I&#039;m trying to figure out what&#039;s up with this audio system. I know this is a car audio forum, but I figured you guys would be my best bet at talking through this with me.Setup: 4x coax 6.5&#039;s and 1 10&quot; sub inside the boat. 4x 6.5&#039;s on the tower up top. In-boat speakers wired down to 2 ohms and run off the front 2 channels. Tower speakers wired down to 2 ohms and run off the rear 2 channels. Subwoofer run off a dedicated sub channel all on a kicker 5 channel marine amp.Problem: At the end of last season, the tower speakers were fine, the sub was fine, and 2/4 speakers in the boat were working (both on the left side). Now that I pull it back out, 0/4 speakers inside the boat are working, the sub is working, and I believe the tower speakers are working (but they&#039;re not installed currently... not worried about them).What I&#039;ve tried: Tested all 4 channels on the amp to a stand alone speaker using a direct RCA connection to my phone. All channels on the amplifier function correctly. Checked the RCA outputs from the headunit using the aforementioned stand alone speaker on each channel, I get sound from all outputs. Plug it all up, and I just don&#039;t get any sound from the 4 speakers inside the boat.Is it possible that all 4 of those speakers happened to die at roughly the same time? Is there some kind of wiring issue that could be easily remedied? The amplifier does NOT go into protect, so I don&#039;t think there&#039;s a short anywhere (although not completely ruled out).The main problem is that it&#039;s extremely difficult to get to the speaker wiring/rear of the speakers, so it would be a very long process to check all of this manually (and I ran out of daylight). Thought I would post here and see if you guys can think of absolutely anything that I missed, or maybe give me suggestions on things to try.Thank you for any help!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Disarmer, post: 8375970, member: 610630"] Last season, we ended with only 4/6 speakers in the boat working. Now that it's about time to pull it back out again, I'm trying to figure out what's up with this audio system. I know this is a car audio forum, but I figured you guys would be my best bet at talking through this with me. Setup: 4x coax 6.5's and 1 10" sub inside the boat. 4x 6.5's on the tower up top. In-boat speakers wired down to 2 ohms and run off the front 2 channels. Tower speakers wired down to 2 ohms and run off the rear 2 channels. Subwoofer run off a dedicated sub channel all on a kicker 5 channel marine amp. Problem: At the end of last season, the tower speakers were fine, the sub was fine, and 2/4 speakers in the boat were working (both on the left side). Now that I pull it back out, 0/4 speakers inside the boat are working, the sub is working, and I believe the tower speakers are working (but they're not installed currently... not worried about them). What I've tried: Tested all 4 channels on the amp to a stand alone speaker using a direct RCA connection to my phone. All channels on the amplifier function correctly. Checked the RCA outputs from the headunit using the aforementioned stand alone speaker on each channel, I get sound from all outputs. Plug it all up, and I just don't get any sound from the 4 speakers inside the boat. Is it possible that all 4 of those speakers happened to die at roughly the same time? Is there some kind of wiring issue that could be easily remedied? The amplifier does NOT go into protect, so I don't think there's a short anywhere (although not completely ruled out). The main problem is that it's extremely difficult to get to the speaker wiring/rear of the speakers, so it would be a very long process to check all of this manually (and I ran out of daylight). Thought I would post here and see if you guys can think of absolutely anything that I missed, or maybe give me suggestions on things to try. Thank you for any help! [/QUOTE]

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