# Cannot get Adafruit Stereo Bonnet to work

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 23, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/cannot-get-adafruit-stereo-bonnet-to-work/5105 "2017-06-23T21:12:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![zq8blazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@zq8blazer](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/zq8blazer)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/cannot-get-adafruit-stereo-bonnet-to-work/5105/1 "2017-06-23T21:12:05Z")

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I am trying to get the bonnet to work properly. I have it fully assembled and connected to a Raspberry pi 3. I’ve ran the setup found here [https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-speaker-bonnet-for-raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-usage](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-speaker-bonnet-for-raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-usage) At the end this is what it says:

[quote]Do you wish to test your system now? [y/N] y  
Testing…

speaker-test 1.0.28

Playback device is default  
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16\_LE, 2 channels  
WAV file(s)  
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

All done!

Enjoy your new i2s amplifier![/quote]

I try to test them and the following is displayed:

[quote]speaker-test -c2

speaker-test 1.0.28

Playback device is default  
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16\_LE, 2 channels  
Using 16 octaves of pink noise  
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory[/quote]  
The speaker never makes a sound, but when upon reboot it crackles when Raspbian is loading. What could the issue be? I’m running a fresh install of the latest version of Raspbian Jessie with Pixel. The only thing that is on Raspbian other than what it comes with is the Alexa sample program.

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**Author:** ![Philipp\_Th](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Philipp\_Th](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Philipp_Th)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/cannot-get-adafruit-stereo-bonnet-to-work/5105/2 "2017-07-14T08:00:02Z")

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I’m having the exact same problem. It crackles upon booting but other than that I cant get any sound out of it. I´m running the latest distribution of the jessie full.