Please help me with a stereo!!

I'm sure there are some of you who know about stereos. My problem is that the speakers keep clicking now when I turn the receiver on. I would hit the back of the stereo and it would be fine, than it goes back to the popping. I've done this for a week and still it keeps popping.

I'm wondering if there is a problem with the receiver or the speakers themselves and what I can do about it.

Can anyone help me? I don't have the money to get it fixed right now but I will later on.

Might want to specify car or home.

I would never suggest hitting the back of an electronic device as an efficient way to resolve a problem... maybe you should kick it? ;)
Just kidding. Sounds to me like a connection problem. As Jefferson mentioned, car or home stereo would help a bit. Either way, usually if there is a loose connection with any of the speaker wires, you will experience "pops." The fact that it stops when you hit it, shows that your interaction is changing the overall connection of your stereo. When it does stop and you go back to watching, it is probably the speaker vibrations that are loosing the connection again. If nothing changed when you hit it, I would expect it to be an electrical issue. My suggestion... pull it out, re-wire it from scratch... making sure that all metal is connected and not in a position that it can contact any other metal. It might sound like the last thing you want to do, but putting out the flames of your freshly scorched receiver is much less fun. Hope that helped a little. There has to be an audio specialist on this forum somewheres... Stay :D and Keep :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by TheMetal1

I would never suggest hitting the back of an electronic device as an efficient way to resolve a problem... maybe you should kick it? ;)
Just kidding. Sounds to me like a connection problem. As Jefferson mentioned, car or home stereo would help a bit. Either way, usually if there is a loose connection with any of the speaker wires, you will experience "pops." The fact that it stops when you hit it, shows that your interaction is changing the overall connection of your stereo. When it does stop and you go back to watching, it is probably the speaker vibrations that are loosing the connection again. If nothing changed when you hit it, I would expect it to be an electrical issue. My suggestion... pull it out, re-wire it from scratch... making sure that all metal is connected and not in a position that it can contact any other metal. It might sound like the last thing you want to do, but putting out the flames of your freshly scorched receiver is much less fun. Hope that helped a little. There has to be an audio specialist on this forum somewheres... Stay :D and Keep :jointsmile:

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It is a home stereo. One of those mini stereo systems. This was a Philips stereo. I forget the model or anything related to that. I will try to fiddle with the speaker wires. Thanks!

Our little Onkyo bookshelf stereo had the clicking/popping when we tuned it, meaning changed the radio station. If it has a mechanical dial, it's usually because dust and/or static have gotten in there on the workings. You can try pulling off the knob and blowing some of that compressed, canned air on there to blow the dust off. Also do the same thing on your plugs and speaker connections or wipe them off with a lint free cloth dampened with a little rubbing alcohol.

Well my brother fixed it and I feel very stupid. lol. Apparently I had the speaker wires too far in the receiver. I stripped it, and put the wires in the receiver and whola! I was ready to throw it away man.