Thread: I need some help with my receiver or buying a new one. im a complete audio idiot

Alright, about a year ago I was on the lookout for my first HTIB. I didn't have much money so I resorted to Ebay. What I ended up buying was an onkyo LSV955, when the product arrived the reciever was completely busted. I received my money back and got to keep the faulty equipment. Out of curiosity I hooked up the speakers to a crappy receiver to see if they worked and from what I could tell the speakers were still good. So I ended up shelling out for a cheap receiver refurbished from onkyo. It was just the basic 5.1 receiver. When I hook these speakers up to the receiver anytime I turn it up to a decent level it like overloads or something and shuts off. I don't know why the receiver can't handle the speakers for some reason, or maybe the speakers are just bad. Since I don't really know anything about audio I couldn't tell what the problem is. My question is there another receiver you guys would reccomend me to use with these speakers? Or should I just get a whole new set of speakers and a new receiver. I don't have all the cash in the world so I would really love to avoide that option.



Here is a link to the speakers I'm using:


http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m...ass=Systems&p=i

and here is a link to the receiver I'm using


http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m...ss=Receiver&p=i

Do you have the polarity correct? Are the speakers clipping?

Originally Posted by charper1

Do you have the polarity correct? Are the speakers clipping?

I'm sorry but I'm not quite sure what your asking me. I know very little about home audio, I just only recently got into it.

Look here.

Originally Posted by navychop

Look here.

I was seriously considering those, any reccomendations for a decently cheap receiver to go with it?

I'll defer to charper1 on that one.

If the receiver is shutting down you likely have a short somewhere and the protection circuitry is kicking in. Can you try another set of speakers to determine if they are the cause?

Looking at the receiver specifications it looks like the ohm output is selectable. Is it possible that he has the wrong ohm output selected for the 8 ohm speakers?

Originally Posted by Stacy A

Looking at the receiver specifications it looks like the ohm output is selectable. Is it possible that he has the wrong ohm output selected for the 8 ohm speakers?

I tried going through the configuration on my receiver but couldn't find anything to set how many ohm's. Please bear with me, I'm a complete idiot on audio, video has always been more my thing. And unfortunetly I do not have any other speakers I could test it with.