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Update: I used DeOxit on the control pod, the speakers are less poppy when I turn up and down the volume now which is nice, but I'm still having the white noise issue from the front right speaker.

I'm not very familiar with the 5.1's, but if it has a control pod similar to the 4.1/2.1 systems, try pressing in gently on the volume button and wiggling it latterally while you have an iPod or computer hooked up and playing music, sometimes this makes my 4.1's less quiet. Additionally, try wiggling the DIN plug around gently or pressing it in further. If the first helps, try the deOxit cleaning fix on the control pod, if the second helps, then get a DIN repair.

hello? Anybody out there? :: knocks on computer screen ::

What is required for a din repair? Is it just a repair of the male connector, or also the female DIN-port on the sub?

Hello all, Thanks in advance for help. I've searched around the forums and have found nothing quite describing the same issue that I am having with my Promedia 4.1 system, so here goes: PROBLEM: With or without my promedia 4.1 system powered on, and with or without it being connected to an audio source, the front right speaker makes a loud hissing/white-noise-like sound, much like static on the radio. DIAGNOSIS/TROUBLESHOOTING: I was informed by Sysbema's audio repair that this sounds like a grounding issue with the speaker, so I tried another of the 4 speakers in place of the current front right speaker, and the problem peristed. I have found that plugging the black/ground/(-) wire of the front right speaker into the (-) jack on the subwoofer for the front left, rear left, or rear right resolves the issue and the speaker works perfectly. I infer from this that I have a grounding issue in the subwoofer related to the front-right (-) jack. I pulled the sub apart and visually inspected the circuitry (of which I am by no means an expert) but I didn't see any burning, disconnected wires, or solder points that had come loose in following the circuit from the FR(-) jack back as far as I could. Any ideas? Possibly a capacitor that ahs gone bad? (I read this was common for the 5.1 system). Could I use a multimeter to check the circuit? Though, if I understand how capacitors work, I shouldn't see a close circuit through the capacitor unless it has fully charged, correct? Any help or suggestions would be great, because I do not have the money to send this thing in for repair, but I have a degree in physics so I should theoretically be able to figure this out, one would think. (that's a bad pun, because my degree is theoretical physics, not applied). Again, thanks in advance!