Tick-tick-tick sound in surround sound speakers

wagonmaster2 · 11-24-2009, 10:43 PM

I have a 2004 Meridian with the surround sound speakers. When the button above the selector box is set to radio instead of TV and nothing is turned on I get a tick-tick-tick sound from the speakers. Not a loud sound, just loud enough to hear if there is no other sound in the coach. Is there any simple way to eliminate this sound, other than switching the button back to TV or changing the radio power switch on the dash from Auxilliary Power to Main Power, which I don't like to do for fear it could run down the chassis battery leaving me sunk for power to start the engine. Maybe this can't happen as long as the ignition switch is turned off.
Really not an earth shaking problem, just a nuisance.

Wagonmaster2

ernieh · 11-24-2009, 11:32 PM

My 03 Journey does the same thing. Mine does it in TV or Radio position. Just flip the source switch to main. The other "solution" seems to be to turn off the battery charger. That also "fixes" the static on AM radio.

LK23 · 11-24-2009, 11:55 PM

Mine does the same thing when the speaker switch is set to radio. Annoying

I would like to find a fix.

RCtime · 11-25-2009, 08:04 AM

Ok, so thats where its coming from. I thought my wife had hid a clock somewhere and was fooling with me.

cbeierl · 11-25-2009, 09:18 AM

As was mentioned above, the 'fix' is to leave the radio power set to the chassis batteries rather than the house batteries. That way it only gets power when the ignition is on.

jdsr · 11-25-2009, 10:48 AM

theres a dash rocker switch(radio pwr) top is radio and bottom is house. Switch it to house and the clicking will stop. I believe it has to be in radio position for surround sound to work.

LK23 · 11-25-2009, 11:21 AM

I was hoping to find a noise suppression filter to eliminate the noise.

Navy Flier · 11-25-2009, 11:50 AM

I am told that my system does the same thing. The reason that I say that is that I cannot hear it (too many years around jet engines) but my wife can and that makes it my problem. Since I cannot hear it I don't know when it occurs or stops but I am told that no switch position I have tried with any switch has stopped the noise.

wagonmaster2 · 11-25-2009, 03:40 PM

When I was at Forest City 3 years ago they said there was a "Fix" for that but I was afraid to let them do something that would affect something else that I wouldn't know about until later and would regret letting them mess with it. Suppose I should have but it wasn't that big a problem and I had much bigger problems to have them working on at that time. Seems like once you get the big ones taken care of then you start concentrating on the little frustrating ones.

Wagonmaster2

Nick Russell · 11-25-2009, 06:27 PM

I have that in the bedroom speakers, drives me crazy. Nothng I have tried so far (including all of the above) has worked.

Jim · 11-26-2009, 06:14 AM

hi..if you call the distributor riverpark in chicago they can send you a filter or tell you how to eliminate this..technically the amp is supposed to shut down after 30 seconds without receiving a signal but without this filter the signal keeps resetting it..i had this happen after 6 months on my 2001 itasca and it has been fine for the past 8 years..jim..