Okay, so I'm hoping someone who is more technologically savvy than me can help me out with this. My computer speakers have mysteriously stopped working. I have a Klipsch 5.1 setup but am only running a L, R, and center speaker and the sub. The input comes from my headphone jack into the sub (hence why I don't have the full 5.1 going, not enough outputs, too cheap to buy a better sound card) and the sub is plugged in. There is a control box for volume and switching between speakers and headphones which plugs in to the subs. I can get sound through my headphones plugged in to the control box, so obviously the sub is getting an audio signal. I can get sound directly from my computer, so it is putting out sound. I just can't get any sound through the speakers. I've blown speakers before but that's not the case here. One day they all just stopped working. I've checked all of the wires and those are all plugged in fine. I've power cycled the sub and restarted the computer but no luck. Any ideas what might be wrong? I miss my boom booms :emo:
It could be the controller on the Klipsch sub. If you are getting sound out to headphones, it can be one of two things...the cable you are using from the jack to the speakers, or the speaker system itself. If you can find another audio cable to swap out, try that first. Otherwise, maybe bring the speakers over and I'll go at it with a multimeter.
see, what's weird is that the audio jack runs from my computer directly into the sub, then the speakers are connected to the sub with normal speaker wire, and the little volume control box is connected to the sub with what kinda looks like an s-video cable. my headphones actually plug into the control box, so that's why i'm confused. if the sub can get audio to the box to power my headphones, wth is up with my speakers?! here's a good pic of the setup i have (only my speakers are older so don't look the same, but the control box is identical) http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/promedia-ultra-5-1.aspx and here is where these guys dissect some wires to get a broken setup working. the diagram of the cable they draw is identical to the cable i have, and the back of my sub looks very similar, just laid out a little differently. http://www.lehigh.edu/~evb209/projects/klipsch/klipsch.html ps: for some reason, "i'll go at it with a multimeter" is just making me laugh a lot
I've got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz you can have if you swing by and pick it up. Its a Dell OEM from 2002. Had it in many computers just finally bought a mobo with a great built-in.
turns out that while this was one of the nicer setups klipsch sold, they for some dumb reason used an amp made by infiniti and it's caused a lot of problems. not a shock they discontinued this line some time ago. a lot of people have had success in fixing it by just wiggling the one part around which is notorious for causing problems, so i opened it up to look at it and so many of the little thingies that are soldered on are all crooked from being rattled by the two giant magnets inside. genius design, klipsch. :rant: hopefully i can get it fixed by just wiggling it around, if not then the replacement piece is $25 and i'll just have to sucker someone into soldering it in for me and if that still doesn't fix it, i think klipsch will fix it for around $125. :dunno:
That's why I said, bring that crap here. I'm an electronics field engineer. This is what I do for god's sake. Although, word of caution, the place is an utter wreck. Neither of us is home anymore thanks to work, and the computer operation that went on last weekend pretty much did the office in. But I would have no issue looking over your speakers if you want.
