Have you sawpped the speakers out to make sure that it's not a blown tweeter?Are these modles new or older (surrounds can cause noise if they have deteriorated).Forget about the wires as you'd notice if it were rusted or had major kink/short.Most like;y it's in the reciever but swap the speakers to make sure there nbot blown.Overdriving or playing to loud causes distortion and the distortion will create heat and ultimately blow them.But you usually damage speakers by UNDEREPOWERNG i.e. trying to get more volume then they are capable of or in more cases your amp is not powerfull enough for insensitive speakers,their is clipping (on an aoscillioscope the rounded wave form looks sqaured off not round therefor is "clipped")and ultimately the power isn't there cleanly heat and blown speakers result.But I think it is much more likelly that the amp needs repair and it is not set up.But switch speakers to see if they are demaged first to see if good ones work where bad ones are.If the speakers aren't damged bring amp in for repair.
Chazz
Chazz