Please help. My Klipsch 4.1 left front doesn't stop hissing!

Heifetz

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Ok, I thought that this was a SB Live issue, so I went out and bought a TB Santa Cruz, and install it, but the hiss is still there! I even clean installed Win XP, and its still there. I cannot get rid of it. So what causes the hiss? Well, the speakers has to be in a 4 speaker setting. When it is on a 2 speaker setting, the left front speaker doesn't hiss. Even when it is on a 4 speaker setting, I can set the balance to all left or all right, or all front or all rear, and the left front stops hissing! Its only when all four speakers are on, for some inexplicable reason, the left front hisses. And it does not constantly hiss either, it just hisses it seems at certain frequencies. What is going on here! This is REALLY ANNOYING! Please help or give me suggestions on what can possibly be wrong.

Thanks
Heifetz


To clarify what the hiss sounds like, I guess its like a static noise almost like paper rustling. It is not faint, yet not loud, and most of the time covered up by lower frequencies, but when I play something that has a part that is mostly higher frequency, it is very apparent!


Actually, I realized upon closer listening, its coming from all 4 speakers. Except that on the right front speaker, its the least noticable, even when I put my ear up to it, I can barely notice it, while on the left front speaker its the most noticable, and both rear speakers are in between.
 

Taylorm

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hello i have the klipsch as well

make sure to mute everything in your volume controls except for wave/directsound and play control

the only issue i have with hissing is when i adjust the volume using the knob on the speaker. the back left speaker will hiss. that is a known issue when klipsch 4.1..nothing major tho



 

Heifetz

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Nope. I muted everything except for the main, and it doesn't do anything. Is it possible that its a wire issue? If so, then how would it explain that fact that the hiss goes away when in two speaker mode?


Heifetz
 

tboo

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Didnt Klipsch have a hissing problem when the 4.1s 1st came out. I remember reading about something where they will replace your pre-amp free of charge to fix the problem.
 

MasterHoss

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Yeah, contact the Klipsch ProMedia representative. You'll probably get faster service if you look at the Klipsch bulletin boards. I think her name is Amy Platt or something like that.