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Yesterday my speakers were on and I was listening to music not loud or anything but just listening to music. Then I heard this POP and the green power light went out and now they don't turn on at all... They r right next to my monitor and my A+ teacher said that speakers too close to a monitor can eventually ruin speakers.... I just wanted a second opinion on what to do...

Seen televisions (and a couple of monitors) eventually ruined by unshielded speakers that were too close for too long, but I've never even heard of the opposite happening.

I think you just had a power spike that blew a fuse.

Absolute Rubbish. Your A+ teach doesn't know jack (which is the case with most A+ teachers IMO - they're teaching a memorization class to pass a test, not the logic and knowledge behind it).

No way the montitor can affect the speakers except to introduce noise from the flyback transformer and that's not going to hurt anything.

As previously noted, though, unshielded speakers near a monitor will distort the monitor's image due the the strong magnetic fields of the speaker magnets magnetizing the picture tube or interfering with the beam control coils. (not permanently - a proper degaussing will fix it).

It was it's time. Sounds like the amp or powersupply blew. You might get lucky and find it's just the power supply. Assuming it's one of those wall transformers, put a meter on it and see if it's putting out juice. If it's not you might be able to find a suitable replacement at Radio Shack.

If these are cheapie speakers then just replace them.

LoL well thx, but yea I got em with an old gateway computer, and this gateway keyboard is starting to die too so I'm just gonna try to replace em both.

For some reason people don't believe me when I say he's book-smart but doesn't really have any real world experience.

Knowing my luck he reads this board now, seems like every single other A+ class does now <img src=http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hipnotic_ ... es/sad.gif>

I garuntee u there is pretty much only one A+ class that reads these, and it's not even the class as a whole, just me and a few of my friends.... but my Teacher also says that the monitor can absolutely ruin speakers, and I should try them on another system. I'm gonna give that a shot and then try some otehr stuff and see what comes up....

Originally posted by Hipnotic_Tranz
For some reason people don't believe me when I say he's book-smart but doesn't really have any real world experience.

yeah, he'll tell ya anything you want to know about somethign out of a book, or any cram test question, buty I swear to god, whenever I ask him anything...I just don't get a legit answer. he just sort of sits there, and scratches his head...

In the words of FP "That's absolute rubbish!" I have a pair of JBL speakers mounted ON not sitting next to, but mounted on my monitor and they've been there for 2 years and not a problem out of them yet. One of my other boxes has the speakers mounted on the monitor as well and it's 4 years old and not problems there either. If the monitor was going to damage the speakers, they wouldn't make monitors with speakers mounted on them. My dad's Packard Bell is about 8 years old and its speakers are mounted on the monitor as well. I could go on and on about people I know, some with even older computers, that have the speakers mounted on the monitor and they still work just as well as the day they got them. I'm with FP when he says it's probably the power supply or amp... Maybe an inline fuse. But I'm pretty sure the monitor did not cause this problem. GL with fixing the problem.. eGo

That reminds me...my old Nokia 447L has speakers built INTO the monitor (downfire). Last time I hooked 'em up, they worked fine.