Hello All,
I realize that a place like AVS might find more "experts" in this field, but I find that people seem more helpful and responsive here, so I figured it was worth a shot. We have a whole-house audio system which consists of something like 12 speakers, with 6 distinct volume controls. These are all hooked to an amplifier in my living room, and sourced via analog audio (RCA) from a receiver. This setup worked pretty good for awhile, but I always felt that some of the speakers weren't as clear as I expected, but I just chalked it down to my relative inexperience with in-home audio.
Recently I decided that I wanted to ditch the receiver and replace it with a SONOS connect so that we could control the audio easier and also tie in to our pool speakers, which I have wired independently to a SONOS Connect-AMP. When I got everything connected, I am hearing serious static/interference issues on low end frequencies. I have the SONOS output level set to fixed which I believe is correct since we have the volume control knobs. The treble/high frequencies sound pretty good, its just the bass/low end. The weird thing too is sometimes I can even feel the bass signal (vibration) coming through the volume control knob... maybe this is normal, I just never noticed it before.
I was just wondering if anyone had any hints, suggestions, etc for how I could troubleshoot this setup. I really doubt the speakers are blown as they are fairly new and we rarely play them a high volume levels, if at all. The speaker wire was done when the house was built, so that could be a culprit in terms of shoddy workmanship or me punching a nail through them (though I sort of doubt this as I know where the wire runs).
I am thinking I need to figure out way to test the wires themselves, then work back to the amp as a possible failure point. I thought about connecting my Connect-AMP to each set of speakers individually as a way to test each speaker pair and also removing the amp. I assume it would have enough power to carry even the largest set (in the living room there are 2 large speakers, not sure of size but definitely 10" or so).
I appreciate any assistance anyone might have. Love the setup, just have to figure out how to remove that static on the low end, as it is so bad that its not usable. It definitely seems worse on some speaker pairs than others (the large living room pair is the worse).
Thanks!
Slates
I realize that a place like AVS might find more "experts" in this field, but I find that people seem more helpful and responsive here, so I figured it was worth a shot. We have a whole-house audio system which consists of something like 12 speakers, with 6 distinct volume controls. These are all hooked to an amplifier in my living room, and sourced via analog audio (RCA) from a receiver. This setup worked pretty good for awhile, but I always felt that some of the speakers weren't as clear as I expected, but I just chalked it down to my relative inexperience with in-home audio.
Recently I decided that I wanted to ditch the receiver and replace it with a SONOS connect so that we could control the audio easier and also tie in to our pool speakers, which I have wired independently to a SONOS Connect-AMP. When I got everything connected, I am hearing serious static/interference issues on low end frequencies. I have the SONOS output level set to fixed which I believe is correct since we have the volume control knobs. The treble/high frequencies sound pretty good, its just the bass/low end. The weird thing too is sometimes I can even feel the bass signal (vibration) coming through the volume control knob... maybe this is normal, I just never noticed it before.
I was just wondering if anyone had any hints, suggestions, etc for how I could troubleshoot this setup. I really doubt the speakers are blown as they are fairly new and we rarely play them a high volume levels, if at all. The speaker wire was done when the house was built, so that could be a culprit in terms of shoddy workmanship or me punching a nail through them (though I sort of doubt this as I know where the wire runs).
I am thinking I need to figure out way to test the wires themselves, then work back to the amp as a possible failure point. I thought about connecting my Connect-AMP to each set of speakers individually as a way to test each speaker pair and also removing the amp. I assume it would have enough power to carry even the largest set (in the living room there are 2 large speakers, not sure of size but definitely 10" or so).
I appreciate any assistance anyone might have. Love the setup, just have to figure out how to remove that static on the low end, as it is so bad that its not usable. It definitely seems worse on some speaker pairs than others (the large living room pair is the worse).
Thanks!
Slates