Blown Driver?

[Hostility]

Well i decided to play a few tracks loud tonight on my set up, and i was getting some distortion out of my 1 driver on my paradigm studio 60. It was coming out of the midrange driver. Now i just added an xpa-5 to the mix last night so was trying it on 2ch. It seemed to do it more on higher notes, a bit staticky sounding. Now could that be distortion? or the driver on its way out? Also could power cables cause a dirty signal to enter? i try to keep my cables away from power cables as much as i can.

*i first noticed when i turned bass up a few notches, but i just tried it again at 0 and still the same*

 

[markw]

You do know that if something sounds distorted you're supposed to turn it down right away, don't you?

That means something is complaining. Amps can generally get over that pretty quickly but speakers can hold a grudge, perhaps forever if it goes on too long.

 

[Hostility]

i know about distortion, ive used o-scopes to tune my amps when i was into car audio. Now with both speakers running the left plays fine, the right one doesn't. when i lightly push on the speaker to see if the voice coil rubs it seems fine.


also was playing music at -18.

 

[slipperybidness]

Are you certain that you don't have a loose cable or wire? Maybe knocked something loose while putting the emo into the system?

 

[Hostility]

i set the amp in then wired. Could be, but i dont hear that scratchy sound on all songs, i just tired this 1 song off a burnt cd on my bd player and could really hear it. Its just a bit odd to me as i thought i would have heard this a while ago as ive had these for some time now and really haven't pushed them. -18db was loud but not overly to me for these speakers, so i figured they could take it. Like i said though the left one sounded great, but the right midrange didnt.

*also i have locking banana plugs*

also just checked i do have my pf60's power cord wrapped around in a circle a few times as its a bit long, and that was beside my right speaker wire. (about an inch away)

***just pulled the speaker wire up higer and still same sound***

 

[Hostility]

new update, the speaker that is scratchy is on the 4th channel on my amp, when the amp turns on, and goes through each channel, when it hits the 4th i hear static noise out of every speaker. so this sounds like my issue, but now why would it be doing that? going to pull the stand out and take peak behind



**going to move this to amp section, mod can delete this thread**

 

[Hostility]

well going through some tests, i found out my speaker (midrange) is on its way out. I guess my xpa brought it to my attention quicker or made it worse. Now could it be my driver or the crossover?

 

[JerryLove]

Check for a whisker short.

 

[Hostility]

not sure what that is, but for a test, i took the bad driver out and put it into my good speaker and the driver still distorted, so i put the good driver into (lets call it bad speaker) and it sounded fine. SO that tells me the driver is bad. But when i compare the 2, they look and feel fine.

Now at the same time i just purchased an xpa-5 that might have a bad channel that this speaker was on, just curious if the bad channel could have done this to the driver?