I own a pair of SOLO 9C's (a 2.0 active stereo floorstanding speakers with a built in AMP)
I woke up during the night to a sleight humming sound coming from the left (passive speaker).
I reached around the back and ensured the speaker wire (w/ B-clips) was securely fitted.
When pulling them out and pushing them back in again the 2 banana clips met and both speakers responded with a rapid succession of "popping" for around 3 seconds.
I thought nothing of it, (perhaps stupidly.) I re-inserted the B-clips into the left (passive speaker) and attempted to play some music lightly for me to fall asleep to.
Nothing worked at all, without changing a single wire set up - just by them meeting the speakers no long produce any output. No matter which source I change to manually and use they do not work. I did the battery test on the passive, the speaker gives back the expected response.
As the right speaker is active - as far as I know it's not possible to test it with a battery (as the amplifier is built into the back with 2 RCA inputs + HDMI and Optical.
They haven't worked in 3 or 4 days, I feel like I've tried everything but I'll list it below for you:
I have:
Removed from mains power for 20 mins+ to see if there was any charge held within the amp preventing it from running.
Tried a separate speaker wire (I borrowed it from a housemate so I'm not 100% sure it was a working cable but it most likely was)
Symptoms:
Powered on - indicated by volume and input channel being shown
No audio input on any channel - different cables tried.
Passive speaker responded to the battery test.
They don't seem to hum at all like the left one did the night before.
I am aware it could be a ground loop issue but from what I could tell these speakers do not need to be grounded (having read the manual for the little brother to this speaker the SOLO 7C as I couldn't find the SOLO 9C manual online.
I am really stuck, Amazon are due to collect on September 5th but I love these speakers, they have more than doubled in price since I bought them in March 2015.
I'd really appreciate any help as I can't find speakers like these in budget as far as I'm aware.
I would greatly appreciate any help, advice and humour that you guys can give.
I'm an audio newbie but I can appreciate good sound and these produce a fantastic, dynamic sound.
The Irony is I live with a Professional Sound Engineer but he's always on tour and would be lucky to see him once a month.
Thanks for looking in advanced.
I woke up during the night to a sleight humming sound coming from the left (passive speaker).
I reached around the back and ensured the speaker wire (w/ B-clips) was securely fitted.
When pulling them out and pushing them back in again the 2 banana clips met and both speakers responded with a rapid succession of "popping" for around 3 seconds.
I thought nothing of it, (perhaps stupidly.) I re-inserted the B-clips into the left (passive speaker) and attempted to play some music lightly for me to fall asleep to.
Nothing worked at all, without changing a single wire set up - just by them meeting the speakers no long produce any output. No matter which source I change to manually and use they do not work. I did the battery test on the passive, the speaker gives back the expected response.
As the right speaker is active - as far as I know it's not possible to test it with a battery (as the amplifier is built into the back with 2 RCA inputs + HDMI and Optical.
They haven't worked in 3 or 4 days, I feel like I've tried everything but I'll list it below for you:
I have:
Removed from mains power for 20 mins+ to see if there was any charge held within the amp preventing it from running.
Tried a separate speaker wire (I borrowed it from a housemate so I'm not 100% sure it was a working cable but it most likely was)
Symptoms:
Powered on - indicated by volume and input channel being shown
No audio input on any channel - different cables tried.
Passive speaker responded to the battery test.
They don't seem to hum at all like the left one did the night before.
I am aware it could be a ground loop issue but from what I could tell these speakers do not need to be grounded (having read the manual for the little brother to this speaker the SOLO 7C as I couldn't find the SOLO 9C manual online.
I am really stuck, Amazon are due to collect on September 5th but I love these speakers, they have more than doubled in price since I bought them in March 2015.
I'd really appreciate any help as I can't find speakers like these in budget as far as I'm aware.
I would greatly appreciate any help, advice and humour that you guys can give.
I'm an audio newbie but I can appreciate good sound and these produce a fantastic, dynamic sound.
The Irony is I live with a Professional Sound Engineer but he's always on tour and would be lucky to see him once a month.
Thanks for looking in advanced.