2016 242 x speaker problems

[Brad Dunn]

our swim deck speaker don't work. Our bow speakers barely make any sound. Muffelled. The tower speakers are intermittent. Very frustrating as dealer is 7hrs away. Even got a local stereo guy give a quick look.
Is there something I may be missing. Set conext balance in the middle. Checked amp plug ins jacks. Not sure what else I can check.

 

[Julian]

First thing I would do is to pull each speaker and see if their connections on the backs are still connected.
Then I would be checking the status of the amps, and the connections there.
Adjusting the amps is a Royal PITA-as Yamaha put the controls facing away from where you could possibly see them! I discovered that there is a button (or switch-don't recall) that changes the number of channels (or inputs) that was in the wrong position on mine....flipped that, and a pair of mine came on.

OK...I just googled it...

See the 4CH/ST switch...if that is in 4CH mode you'll lose a pair of speakers on each amp as they only have one set of input connected.

 

[Brad Dunn]

Thank you. The switch on amp was one of the problems. The swim deck speaker work now. I still have an issue. The tower speakers intermittent don't work. Sometimes they both work, sometimes one. Some times neither work. Took to stereo place. Gave them a n hour but did not find the problem.
They stopped working while they were looking at it.

 

[Julian]

Thank you. The switch on amp was one of the problems. The swim deck speaker work now. I still have an issue. The tower speakers intermittent don't work. Sometimes they both work, sometimes one. Some times neither work. Took to stereo place. Gave them a n hour but did not find the problem.
They stopped working while they were looking at it.

I must have missed your reply somehow....I assume you figured this out? What was the issue?

 

[Julian]

@Brad Dunn also just a heads up, but a few of us, myself included, have wired in another amp and used 2 channels to directly power the sound bar on its own (it is powered in series with the cock pit speakers from the factory). This made a HUGE output difference to the sound bar!

Here is how I did the wiring (the purple lines represent where I cut the stock wires and connected them together and inserted new wires for the tower):