Anybody Blown a Tweeter?

[jeff1956]

Has anybody "blown" a tweeter & what is the failure mode? & how can you check

#1) Completely "no sound" open coil? (check with DMM for resistance)
#2) Scratchy,crunchy, shrill "sound" at a certain frequency?
#3) ???

How do you test for #2?

I checked with Grado SR80 headphones and the source sounds good?
Is there any tone sweep you can do or?

Any suggestion to eliminate me, "as hearing something" vs reality?

 

[TLS Guy]

Has anybody "blown" a tweeter & what is the failure mode? & how can you check

#1) Completely "no sound" open coil? (check with DMM for resistance)
#2) Scratchy,crunchy, shrill "sound" at a certain frequency?
#3) ???

How do you test for #2?

I checked with Grado SR80 headphones and the source sounds good?
Is there any tone sweep you can do or?

Any suggestion to eliminate me, "as hearing something" vs reality?

Switch your left and right speakers, and make sure the problem stays with the speaker and does not change sides. If that scrunchy sound is coming from the tweeter when you put your ear to it, you need a repaired or new tweeter.

 

[Chu Gai]

Such questions should be directed to ex-congressman, Anthony Weiner.

 

[twylight]

Has anybody "blown" a tweeter & what is the failure mode? & how can you check

#1) Completely "no sound" open coil? (check with DMM for resistance)
#2) Scratchy,crunchy, shrill "sound" at a certain frequency?
#3) ???

How do you test for #2?

I checked with Grado SR80 headphones and the source sounds good?
Is there any tone sweep you can do or?

Any suggestion to eliminate me, "as hearing something" vs reality?

Jeff I would consider doing 2 things:

-reset every device you have to defaults and check every connection to be nice and snug (this has solved every issue ever except when you have actually blown a driver...which would be 1 time out of 100 for me)
-blown tweeter is usually a gap in sound, compare 2 speakers by ear by switching the speaker wire - i blew a center channel tweeter and the range was very obvious once i played a 20-20k sweep. (available free online with google)

 

[jeff1956]

I wish you had posted this before I sent the driver back.

I found a loose wire after removing the driver and sending it back.
The driver tested"good"
I putting the speaker back together waiting for the returned driver I found the loose wire.

Duh, obvious check loose wires........

 

[ImcLoud]

I had a small clicking or ticking type noise in one tweeter a while back, I swore it was blown so I pulled it all apart and sent it in, they tested it and said it was fine, BUT sent me a new one just because they wanted me to be happy.... I put it in and the same thing happened, I checked all the wires everythnig was good, so I swapped speakers cables and it moved to the other speaker, I pulled the cable apart and the only thing I found was some splayed wires in the end of the banana plug, I soldered the end and dremmeled the excess off, noise was gone, about 3 months later the other cable did the same thing, I fixed it the same way and never happened again... It was driving me crazy for a while though, but you cant have a stereo with no wires...

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I've never blown a loudspeaker tweeter or any loudspeaker driver in my life.

 

[byromxvw1]

I can't say for sure that this will fix

 

[ImcLoud]

just pull out the bad tweeter and replace it with these bad boys Vintage Realistic Radio Shack Super Tweeters | eBay

 

[markw]

In '78 or so, I was blasting Springsteins "Born to Run" through a Marantz 2270 into a pair of JBL L-55 (rated at 35 wattts RMS) and one tweeter went silent. Cure - Replace tweeter.