Thanks for posting this. I had the dreaded loud pops and crackles for years. I did it slightly different than you, but probably wouldn't have tried at all if I hadn't found your step by step guide. I didn't peel the bottom pad off, I found the two screw locations and just made two holes in the pad to remove the screws. I didn't want to drill the center, so I sprayed D5 through the two holes in the circuit board where the light post goes and hoped it got to the volume pot underneath. It did. After reassembly it was completely silent. I also used rubbing alcohol to remove the deteriorated & tacky rubber coating on the volume ring, which left a nice looking shiny metal surface. Thanks very much for your post!
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Subrata Dey: I wouldn't. WD-40 will attract dust. Honestly, I'm starting to think that D5 does, as well, since it leaves behind lubricant. The crackling is back on my knob. I'm going to test cleaning with WD-40's Specialist Electrical Contact Cleaner Spray. I'll update this guide if it works better.
Well, you can either lower the price and mention the issue in your ad, or you could contact Elektron and ask for a replacement Volume knob. It wont be expensive and you can then either fix it or include the replacement knob as part of the sale.
So, I've had a pair of Logitech Z623 desktop speakers for about two years now. They sound great, get plenty loud, and have more than enough bass for any and all of my music. My only problem? The volume knob is analog, and not digital, which means it uses a potentiometer. If you know speakers, you know what this means: they get dirty. When they get dirty, they often make hissing and scratching sounds when adjusting volume levels. I need to do this often, as throughout the day, volume levels go down as we approach night. Whenever I adjust the volume, the scratching, hissing, screeching, etc is awful. Often-times it will pop, and it gets surprisingly loud. I've heard of a few solutions to fix it, which 'do" work, but only temporarily. Such as turning them off, and turning the volume knob back-and-forth for a few minutes. it takes me about twenty or so, and it only fixes it for a day or so. Then it's back to banshee screaming.
Note: Turning them up all-the-way and using Windows is not an option. If it were to happen; the volume on Windows going up, these speakers could wake up my parents across the house at night. I can't have that.
I also have these speakers but haven't noticed any significant buzzing popping or other artifacting at high volumes. I'll be sure to follow the guide though if such an issue ever arises. Could check about the warranty but since they're so old they may not still honor it
It's not a volume issue, and it's not a buzzing. It's a dust buildup on the potentiometer, which is what allows the volume to be adjusted. When you turn it, the dust is outputted as a signal, which is played through the speaker. it sounds like static when adjusting the frequency on a radio.
Once it was all open and the knobs pulled off (required a lot of force) I used the electrical contact spray to loosen it up and free the dirt. It took about 4 goes to be honest and a bit of spray. The final time I was a bit more liberal with the spray and now they work as good as new. I just used bluetac to reattach the thx badge as I'm not game to glue it in case it happens again
For this problem is very simple solution. You need to turn your volume knob fast many times left and right until grease that is inside is soft and all around where it suppose to be. I did it and no crackilng noise when i change volume on speakers. In my case i set 50% of volume on speakers and rest volume change is done in windows so this knob is not in use so grease hardens after a while.
OH MY GOSH. YOU ACTUALLY SAVED ME!!!! I have a set of Logitech 2.1 Z623 speakers and every single time i turn the volume knob it makes that super annoying noise which is so loud! But with your solution i turned it left and right many times and the annoying sound is gone! I signed up for an account just to post this post lol. Thanks!!
Hey there. i've just bought these speakers and when i read people were mostly saying it is dust so i said to miself what the hell lets try it, it probably won't work anyway, so i took the speaker, put my mouth like 1 cm away from the knob and starter just rotating it and blowing between the know and the case in attempt to maybe get through with blowing the dust off without having to open it and strangely enough it worked completely! After the first try there was still some crackling left so i just repeated the blowing when the crackling occured and it seemed to clear itself out. I'm sure doing it with a compressor would solve this problem equally, as long as you keep slowly rotating the volume knob, enabling the dust the space to leave the unit. Happy listening!
dude. your suggestion sounds interesting. will def try it out. up till now was doing the old 'rotate the volume knob several times' routine, which seemed to fix the problem for a day. then it was back to the crackle. maybe blowing air into the knob itself would help.
I've been turning my speakers off to adjust the volume for like 2 years now lol. I know this post is super old but I was just about to take them apart to replace the pot when I found this. Thank you so much.
Hi, I have PreSonus Firepod 8 channel interface plugged into 2 KRK rokit 5 monitors. Every time I turn the volume knob on the interface, my left monitor crackles and stop sounding until I play with the knob long enough so that it's at the perfect spot where I can get clear sound out of it, but it's only temporary until the sound disappears from that monitor again.
I have a Marshall JCM 900 I'm trying to sell. Went through it today to clean it up all nice and to attempt to fix the crackling I get when I turn up the clean channel volume. I just sprayed some compressed air - didn't do it. I know a lot of people seem to think that contact cleaner is best to use here...unfortunately it's hard to get at the pot (only a little room to spray anything in there).
The problem is a crackling from 0-3 on the clean channel's volume knob. It doesn't crackling anywhere else and doesn't crackle when the knob is static (just when turning it). Wondering if this could be a bad preamp tube as well?
Earlier this week I heard a crackle or popping noise coming from my speakers. It occurred a few times, randomly, as I was watching TV (which I use my system for). The crackling wasn't loud, and it continued even as I turned the amp's volume knob all the way down. The volume level on the amp didn't seem to affect the crackling volume. Later, I heard the noise when the TV was off and no source component was being used. (I keep the amp on at all times) 2ff7e9595c