Denon AVR speaker channel reconfiguration challenge

[Anands123]

Hi, looking for some guidance here. My 3 year old Denon AVR 4700H is producing a cracking sound from the ‘height1’ channel and it affects my front height speakers. I am trying to see if it can output the same signal on height 2 channel instead as it is free and hopefully not damaged. I can’t seem to do that as the various amp assign settings force me to use height 1 by default unless I have 4 height speakers, even in that case the height 1 will be in play for one pair and still introduce noise.

I have tried to verify that height 1 channel by changing speakers and cables but the issue seems to be in the channel itself.
Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[Anands123]

Hi just nudging to see if anyone has answers

 

[liverpool_for_life]

Any suggestions appreciated.

Looking at the manual, there doesn't seem to be a way to assign a single pair of height speakers to Height 2 on your AVR. If getting it repaired isn't a possibility, you're left with having to disconnect your heights and run the Denon's Speaker Virtualizer DSP for height effects.

 

[fLUX]

Are you sure it's the AVR and not the speaker ? Would be good to swap the left height and right height speaker cables & see if distortion is swapped.