10 replies to this topic

[josh.evans]

hi i think i may have blown my speakers they crackle all the time now have i broken them???

cheers
josh

[amarcd]

maybe, have you checked all the connections, i recently solved my crackling, it was a bad earth on the stereo, damn bouncy minis loosening everything!! lol

[josh.evans]

my speakers are all run through amps

[amarcd]

so are mine lol.

[Danpolk]

When i thought i blew my old sub i was told to push gently on the piece that moves the air (dont know the technical name for it) and if it makes a crunching noise then its knackered! turned out my sub was! lol

[bobs]

You can usually see if they're badly blown, check all your connections first.

Blown tends to be a more muddy wet sound due to lack of air pressure in the speaker, not crackling as such. But then I trained on studio gubbins, not car audio, same thing isn't it?

Unless you're playing a record through your system, that might crackle, you know what a LP is right?

[josh.evans]

thing that makes me wonder if i have is that the rear 2 are different speakers and not crackerling and they are run off the same amp. and the 2 front both crack never used to?

josh

[Danpolk]

Can you get them out very easily? If it were me i would take the front speakers out and wire them into the rear connectors that way you will know if its the speaker or the wiring.

[pbrain]

check all connections first, inc RCA's, power connections etc.

Usually, crackling speakers is a failing flexi-lead (the thin braid wire inside the speaker going from terminal posts to the coil). luckily, most of the time, it is where it joins the post that fails, so i 'dab' of solder can usually fix that. it's just where it's been flexing most. usually from over-driving the speaker. (no need for sub-bass going into components or co-ax's)

Also, cheap RCA's have been a problem in the past as the centre wire is really thin and this fails after a while.

But these problems don't usually happen in pairs! so if your front speakers both started crackling at the same time, do as someone mentioned earlier and swap the speakers over, if the crackles go to the other pair, then after checking connections it may well be the amp.

[Rich.]

Yep, i would suspect either the Amp channel, however you can find its something as simple as a loose fastening, however two going togeather is quite unlikely.

And no need to remove spakers. Just swap your front and rear output cables around on the amp itself and see what happens.

Rich

[josh.evans]

right thanks for all your help it was a simple rca connection it was very loose. but i know i have broken one of the tweeters in one of the speakers as when on the tweeter makes a werid sound like a fuzzy noise?