When I turn the gain up, my front speakers gets low by itself, the back speakers are fine. Do I need different speakers? if so what do you recommend?
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I will answer this question the best way I can coming from a female that likes loud music and nice cars... Sounds like u need new speakers in the front I suggest kickers but that is me I have kicker everything subwoofers L7 15 kicker amp kicker speakers inside with the kicker z 650. 4 to push them and the kicker crossover my car hits hard can only turn it up to 5 it is indeed quaking!!! Make a lot of men mad... Kicker everything in my opinion.
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The channels must not be bridged properly. My gain 1 is set to the front speakers and my gain 2 is set for the back speakers. Works fine for me
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Hello Louise, Buy a sub that has Speaker level inputs and outputs on the back ( many polk, sony, bic etc. do). Simply install right and left speaker wires to the amp as you normally would for regular speakers. Then conect those wires to the r/l speaker INPUT on the back of the sub. Then run seperate wires from the r/l OUTPUT on sub to your speakers. Works and sounds great! Hope this helps. S
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I am going through the same problem that you have and listen to the same type of music (classical music and folk music) and have been told the same thing. I have a friend who has the same system as me and I used one of his speakers in place of my one malfunctioning one and I don't hear the hiss anymore. I'm in the middle of a troubleshooting argument with their staff right now, and I fear that they would be wasting my time and theirs in insisting it is the amp in the back.
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Hi. It´s probably defective,, but I always use the headphone or aux "out" to an extarnal speakers, the sound from the built in speakers is not good, so before you return it, maybe try that, I got myself 2,1 speakers from Logitech and they are amazing and they only cost like 100 $...
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I think the match is acceptable... At the same time a more powerful amp will sure do better. I was hoping for more "umph". Im going to try the speakers with a more powerful amp to see if theres any difference.
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Answer contains more info then requested: If you are going to seriously test speakers, do so while system is still on warranty. Adjusting back, front and center speakers, is critical in regards to getting the best sound. I indicated my front speakers were twice as far from me, so that the sound coming from them would be louder. Sometimes the surround sound aspect can be overwhelming. Yes, it is possibly to damage speakers due to volume level. More so by maintaining speakers at a loud volume. I do not think you will damage them if you want increased sound just for a movie, or party, etc. However, and probably the most wise thing I can say. I am not an expert, and have no idea what I am talking about. Jusdt trying to use what limited common sense I have.
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run it clean,no gain it will sound great. if you use the gain ,its all you will need..it has plenty of gain
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i first of all am no sound engineer, nor electronics guru...all i can tell is what i did and what worked perfectly for me....i took output signal from xm radio...ran it thru a preamp...then the wa50 sys....split it to bose radio nearby...and remotely to bose radio two rooms away...my impression is it has nothing to do with speakers of any age...that is an amp issue...this only sends a signal...it drives nothing.
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Why are my rear speakers not playing anything. When I test them they work but when I play a movie, nothing. Help anyone
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Bill, I doubt anything "went wrong", but the Yamaha may not deal with potential impedance differences between your main speakers and your sub. Luckily, Yamaha allows you to set up levels for each set of speakers (front, center, back, sub) from within the setup menus. Using the remote, do the following: setup -&gt; speaker -&gt; level -&gt; scroll down to "sub" and raise the level (default is flat (0db)) until you like how it sounds. hope this helps, gfd
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Once your tone has been achieved or set with the pre -gain control, your overall volume of the channel is set with the post gain control. Hope that helps. It's an awesome amp!
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It's also quite possible that the Volume Pot is not the correct one or is defective and could be why you have to turn it up so high. Was the sound ever distorted? Or was it clean? If you did overdrive the output you might have gotten distortion. But if the sound was clean but low in volume, then it might be the Volume control , preamp setting or output amp.
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Dieckmann, you have not mentioned what watt are you speakers. i have the same problem too but my speakers are like 40W. i am usuing my old speakers till i get a deal on a new 80-100W speakers.so maybe if you upgrade the speaker is you have low Watt ones you will get good sound at 30-40 level.hope this helps
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The lead side had a pre gain and a post gain..either can be used as a volume control... If unwanted a dirty sound..turn up the pre gain and turn down the post gain... For a clean sound, reverse it.. The boost knob is great..it works regardless of what channel ur in.. Get the footswitch..the button on the right controls the boost...i think its labeled effects.. Good luck!
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Perhaps the speakers that you used were too large of a draw for this unit. It is a 45W unit so if your speakers had a larger draw than that you may have damaged the amp finals. At any rate, I would request a return of exchange as it could possibly just be a defective unit. Ours works great driving four high efficiency speakers.
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I would always suggest to use a dbx Drive Rack at the input and set up the amplifier. This is the best way. The amplifier would usually then be set up with a 12 o'clock gain position and you will have enough head room
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Dear Kyle. It's a pleasure to help you. About your question I will say that the sub working properly and these speakers are designed to resist distortion sound. For this reason, when you hear a song, you should raise the speaker volume so you can account for the difference. The levels of the sub must be the maximum and just can listen the real sound when the volume is high. I hope this review helps you better understand how great these speakers are. Regards Tomas