I Think

Under the floor of my storage building is likely where the possums reside. Rocky spends countless hours trying to flush them out. And that is where the paint was when it went missing, in the section next to that. It rains too much to put something like flour down there, as the floor in that section is earth and stays too wet.

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With these speakers, try the speakers with another system, if you have one or you can try it with someone's else's receiver.

If the trouble follows and the same results occur, you'll know it's in the speakers. However, if the speakers work, chances are that the problem is caused by an output transistor or power chip in the Fisher receiver.

If it's in the speakers:
With each speaker, take the one that quit totally- it could be the voice coil. With the one that can't adjust tone to sound good - one of the components, woofer or tweeter could have gone. You can always find a suitable replacement speakers for not too much.

When I switch speakers, the one that was dead now has sound, but the other is dead. And still can't adjust the sound to be normal.

ok..one channel is out...most likely the output chip or power transistor. The parts can be found. When I have replaced them in receiver, I always make sure to clean off the old thermal compound and apply new thermal paste...so that the power transistor or chip dissipates heat properly. Some chance it could be a fuse...but generally if the fuse blew both channels would have quit.

The other one could simply be one of the components of the speaker. How does the bad sounding speaker sound in the other side? still tonally off? is it highs, or lows..or is the just badly distorted? Could be voice coil too?

When I put the other speaker on the side that works that speaker works too.

Does it sound reasonable?

If you wanted to repair the receiver, the manual is on Ebay. I'm not sure if the schematics are there....but the manual is $6. I'd guess the power chip or transistor if it can be found might be in the range of $35-50 - just as a guess.

It will not adjust to a normal sound, no matter which speaker it uses.

sounds like both speakers are trashed.
Have you adjusted the tone controls of both the bass and treble?
can you try some other speakers with the receiver..just to borrow some portable speakers to see if the receiver is worth keeping?

I have been looking for speakers that use the same kind of connections, but so far with no luck. On some speakers you can splice the wires to other connections, but I have not checked into that with these.

typically the ends are RCA phono plugs. Whatever you want to make a connectioin..as the receiver most likely has an RCA photo female connector to plug into.

Still decompressing. The storms are predicted to begin before sunup. It rains so often, I need to find projects to do indoors.

Same here, these days. Right now, I'm refurbishing a telescope. Problem is, once it's done it'll still be too cloudy to use it.

Got up extra early this morning. My phone kept pestering me with those annoying weather alerts. The whole storm system passed through at a speed of 40 MPH. More rain expected forever. I read online that the rain may continue here through fall.

We are under a weather alert all night long. I will go to bed, shortly. Hopefully I will awaken in the morning. If not - Well, that's the way it goes.

Slept like a rock all night long. Woke up to a dry, sunny, morning. Being so near the Gulf, weather is not so easy to predict, as in Dallas or Amarillo. We have the weather off of the water to sometimes make things worse, but other times to make them better.

I've wondered about this before, in that case it was about tornadoes, I think. I'm used to California construction, which is earthquake wary; there is, or was, a lot of use of Simpson steel tie connectors there in building. My observations about the construction industry in New Mexico leave me with a lot of negative opinions, but those are just spotty observations these days.

Reading about the houses collapsing along the Blanco River, I can see water destruction wherever that overflowing happened in any state or country, but I'm perplexed that the framing went down so fast. I get it that it's the force of the water, but still wondering that some frames didn't retain shape. Aren't they tied to the slabs, etc. ? Did the slabs float too?

glad you made it through that one.

I used to frame and otherwise work on house and apartments construction. In the places I worked, speed was the primary concern. Sure, the floor plates are bolted down and storm clips are used to hold the walls and roof together, but it's just the minimum allowable. A lot of it depends too on the attentiveness of the workers and inspectors.

My phone kept giving me these alerts, until I went to bed. Then. it just dried up in my area. I appreciate the sentiment, however.