tweeter cutting out, what to do


I have a pair of Infinity Kappa 8.1 vII's powered off of a Adcom GFA-5500 & my receiver is a Denon AVR-3000 (yea, as old as the speakers, early 90's).

When I play a CD at close to half volume the tweeter on my right likes to turn off for a while. Any thoughts on what I should do to correct this? I do not want to damage them....

Should I buy a new receiver/processor or would a larger amp fix this?

thanks
viggen900

Showing 1 response by jsd52756

If I remember correctly, quite a few Infinitys have self-resetting tweeters. I know my Rennaisance 90's (aledgedly) do according to the manual. Although I have never heard mine go off then re-set, I have heard my friends Kappa 7's do it. I believe your Kappa 8's may be doing just that. If that is the case your amp may be clipping and causing the tweets to cut out. My friend increased the size of his speaker cable and mentioned that he is now able to crank it up quite a bit more before the problem happens again. No fancy cable stuff, just a larger Monster gage. It looks to me to be around 10 gage. This may be a cheap fix for you and make the system sound & work better as well. Perhaps try the wire & check all connections if you want. Hope it works out for ya.
Good luck, John