What caused my surround speakers to both break?

[isasir]

I own a Pioneer VSX-811S receiver. I have two Klipsch Quintet speakers I picked up off Ebay about a year ago as surrounds. Now it seems that both of them have gone bad. Some sound comes out fine, but other sound emits static from the speakers. (Maybe a bad tweeter?) What I'm trying to figure out is why both of them went bad at the same time. From what I can tell, these speakers were capable of handling the load of the receiver. I did get them off ebay, so I'm thinking that's why, but since I"m not the most tech-savvy, I wanted to get other opinions, before I buy new speakers and repeat this process again.

 

[StageLeft]

You could try, at LOW volume, running the tweeters on your front, and see if it is indeed the speakers, as opposed to your receiver - see if you can or cannot replicate the particular static sound, when using the front receiver outputs.

 

[Savij]

maybe it's the source that has static? does the static always show up on certain cds, and dvds or does the static show up randomly

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: Savij
maybe it's the source that has static? does the static always show up on certain cds, and dvds or does the static show up randomly

Well I hooked up my surrounds as fronts (so I could better hear the speakers) and played a couple of different CDs and still heard the static. I don't hear it all the time, but that I assume is due to the frequencies of sound that a given song might be producing.

While testing though, at one point, the receiver did give an "Overloaded" message and shut off.

My fronts play perfectly fine.