System problem


Hi all, wonder if anyone can help me here. Was listening to my system last night at a pretty high volume level. I went to turn it down to shut it down for the night and when I hit the down volume button on the remote the system dropped in volume and went almost mono sounding. Both left and right sound the same. Like someone put heavy. heavy blankets over the speakers. I thought a tube had blown in my preamp so I replaced them with new spares and no difference. Today, I plugged my monoblocks directly into my DAC/streamer and the same thing so I’ve eliminated my preamp as the culprit. Any ideas? My system consists of Wilson Maxx 3’s, Classe CAM600 monoblocks, EAR 912 preamp and PS Audio Directstream with Bridge 2. I won’t mention my turntable setup as I wasn’t listening to it when this happened. All drivers in the speakers are working, there is just minimal and muffled sound. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you
gnaudio

Showing 1 response by uberwaltz

It is definitely possible to have blown the resistors in the Wilsons crossover unit, they truly are suspect when playing at high volume.
Dont ask me how I know......
But there is also plenty of web information on lots of similar occurences with blown resistors under similar circumstances.
I had to call Wilson to get the right value resistors for my speakers and just decided to order them right then even though not cheap.

Good luck.