why when i turn my receiver up pass a certain point it shuts off on me?

Answer 1

You could have a bad spot on the volume potentiometer. Take it to a qualified repair shop and have them look at it. It couild also be dirty in a particular spot, and just need a good cleaning.

Answer 2

What model receiver do you have?

What model speaker system are you using?

Knowing the specs of these items can help troubleshoot as to whether it's a compatibility issue or a malfunction with the receiver or the connections.

For example, the impedance of the speakers may be too much for the receiver to handle, so when you turn up the volume to a certain point, the receiver's protection circuitry shuts it off.

RULE OF THUMB: Never turn your receiver up past the half way point. If it's not loud enough, then you either need more efficient speakers (i.e. 92 dB @ 1m/2.83v) or a much more powerful receiver (i.e. at least twice the power of your current one).

Why? Because if you go past that point, not only will you run the risk damaging your receiver and speakers, but the sound will thin out (the highs and lows get flat).

H a p p y
L i s t e n i n g !

Answer 3

Could be a lot of things but sound like it could be that you are playing your speakers too loud and it is trying to protect your speakers and receiver from blowing up. Most receivers have some sort of built in protection for your speakers.
And your receiver is sensing some sort of overload, either distortion or too much power for your speakers. Either way it is causing your receiver to shut down.
Do you know what the power rating is for your speakers?
How about your receiver, what is it's power rating?
If the receiver has a higher power rating than your speakers, under the right circumstances it will fry your speakers. Would not go pass a certain point on your receivers volume until you can get a pair of speakers that can handle the power rating of your receiver. Say your receiver is rated for 100 watts, then your speakers should be rated also at 100 or more watts, then it should be able to handle the volume without shutting down.

Answer 4

Well unforunately this is a very general symptom. Most receivers have an autoprotect that turns the receiver off for one of two reason. Over heating or electrical shorting. The first question is which one are you experiencing? If your receiver is stone cold and you turn it on and then turn it all the way up to volume level X and then it immediately turns off then we can rule out overheating. So lets move on to shorting. Basically this is when there is when you pull too much power from the receiver and it shuts itself off to prevent damage. The most common cause of this is a tiny piece of speaker wire that is touch bare metal of the opposite speaker terminal, to fix this you re-trim all of your speaker wires at both ends. Another possible cause is if you have your speakers out of phase, ie you have switched the negative and positive terminals on your receiver or speaker, to fix this check all of your wires to make sure that black goes to black and red goes to red. Now on to the less common and more complex external causes. Perhaps you have connected more than one speaker to a single terminal you naughty, naught boy; stop that. OK, I'm going to assume you didn't do that. So it wasn't any of that stuff huh? Well let's check each individual speaker then. Unplug all of your speakers from the back of the receiver and try turning up the receiver, does it turn off? it's inside the receiver somewhere. It doesn't? plug in your front left speaker, turn it up, wait for a short yes/no? the repeat with each speaker until it does turn off. Once you come to the speaker that is the culperit it is either an internal problem with the speaker or it is one of the previously mentioned wiring problems

Answer 5

You are leaving out some important information, If your receiver shuts down at loud volume levels (loud sound coming from the speakers) it is being overloaded, and you need a more powerful amplifier or more sensitive speakers. If the receiver shuts down at a particular volume control setting regardless of how loud the sound is, then you have a defective volume control.

Answer 6

your receiver is not sufficiently powered. increasing the volume or whatever forces more energy consumption which it obviously isn't getting. get a stronger amp.

Answer 7

Try getting bigger guage wires. The wires that go to your speaker, if they're not RCA's.

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Haven't you heard of the Slartibartfast Turner Offer?

I'm selling at least 55 trillion a day.
At least!

What happens is - next door turns their receiver up.
So bloody loud the house down the bottom of the road on the corner can hear it - because they've got all their flippin' windows open. They just HAVE to share their favourite music with the whole damn world - whether the whole world likes it or not.

This is where the Slartibartfast Turner Offer comes in.
You point it in the direction of the selfish twit with the blare coming out of every window - and

CLICK !

It turns it off

And what's more - after 10 clicks it will make your receiver blow up.

So keep it down - or else