awrite people, ive got a pioneer home cinema set up, ive not had any problems until now.the surround speakers are not working properly.ive put it down to the wires- which have fried(due to me linking up to many) :rolleyes: so ive went out and baught some speaker wire which cost me £20. however, the same thing is happening with this wire! its cutting out and appearing on the screen OVERLOAD. is there a certain type of wire hich is required for certain types of amps?

Only have 1 speaker per channel! If you have a Dolby Digital amp -that is 5 speakers (hence the 5.1 bit) and the sub, which is usually self powered.

If you have more than one per channel you may not have the right impedance (Load) for the amp.

Additionally you may also have a short - check all the connections and that no bare wires are touching at eh terminals at the back of the amp or behind the speakers. No "staples" through the cable?

If tha does not cure it - try running one chanel at a time and have a known good speaker - you may have blown one and be driving into a shorted voice coil.

Lastly - ya amp may be buggered but most of them on the market that are half decent will shut don on an overload but probably wont like doing that indefinitly.

Conclusion - 1 speaker per channel, chack cables for shorts, check 4 blown speakers.

J

Had exactly the same problem on my old Sony 5.1 set up...it would run for 15 minutes or so and then loads of white noise and overload on the display.

The cause was a knackered amp unit so had a completely new set up under warranty!

Dave

will it matter how thick the speaker wire is?i reckon cause its got so many wires it demanding more feed to it and overloading with the new wire...????any advice anyone?

Nothing to do with wire thickness. The wire will only flow as much current as the speaker demands - i.e. amp voltage divided by impedance of the speaker.

If anyone wants to be pedantic, conductor resistance has an effect on current flow, but it'll be insignificant in this case.

looking back at your first post, I'd guess that when the first set of wires "fried", they blew the output stage on your amp, whihc is now knackered, and that is what is causing the problem.

ok mate, your speaking double dutch to me but it sounds bad- think ill get the warranty slips out :) cheers for the help lads
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think i know eactly what your problem is:D the wires you have that go into the speaker terminals are touching and causing a failure;) had a power cut out on my denon amp so it didnt cause any long terms problems when it happened to me, just check every speaker ans av conection and make sure that none of them are touching each other failing that buy banna plugs and that should solve it:D