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if my speakers crackle and pop when i adjust the volume, what does that mean?

The volume pot probably has some dust in it. Compressed air while turning the pot clockwise and counterclockwise should help.
 
Get Caig'd.

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Never have a problem with noisy pots again!

Believe me when you have thousands of sliders/pots on a board that get changed daily during performances you CANNOT have crackle!
 
happens with klipsch/cambridge speakers as well.
pots pots pots...sucky sucky pots.
give the spray a try.
not sure why they are designed to suck that hard, maybe its a cheapness thing.
but even relatively cheap recievers with big old knobs tend not to develop the crackle pop like computer speakers do.
 
0roo0roo said:
happens with klipsch/cambridge speakers as well.
pots pots pots...sucky sucky pots.
give the spray a try.
not sure why they are designed to suck that hard, maybe its a cheapness thing.
but even relatively cheap recievers with big old knobs tend not to develop the crackle pop like computer speakers do.
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In the old days, back in the 8track era, the stereos had felt with slits cut into it that the shaft or slider would stick through to protect dust from getting into the pots. Now they just stick a plastic knob on the shaft and hope for the best.
 
Modelworks said:
In the old days, back in the 8track era, the stereos had felt with slits cut into it that the shaft or slider would stick through to protect dust from getting into the pots. Now they just stick a plastic knob on the shaft and hope for the best.
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Better gear uses conductive plastic pots instead of carbon.

Stuff these days is so cheaply made, however.
 
Wow. I just gave away a perfectly good pair of Klipsch 2.1 computer speakers for doing this very same thing. I thought it was Klipsch so I replaced them with Axiom Audiobytes which were/are great until they started doing the same damn thing when I turned the volume. I just used air to clean the volume knob as recommended and it totally eliminated the popping.

I had to sign up just to say thank you for this no brainer (now that I know) solution.
And thanks for the caig.com link too, looks cool.


Tiamat said:
The volume pot probably has some dust in it. Compressed air while turning the pot clockwise and counterclockwise should help.
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Hah wow ... I have an old stereo reliever from the 80s hooked up to my main PC with some 70s era Epiphone speakers... I rarely adjust the volume, as usually the volume adjustments built into windows or winamp usually take care of my needs, but I'll have to try shutting it off and maxing/minning the volume a bunch of times .... would be nice if I could adjust the volume properly!
 
YOyoYOhowsDAjello said:
Turn the speakers off. Then turn the volume knob all the way up and down 20 times in a row really fast. Then try again.

(To get dust / dirt out of the volume controller)
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I can't believe this worked. Thanks. All this time almost from new. Then I did it and it worked. I thought you were gee-ing up lol
 
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