So you've never blown a tweeter eh?

SDA1C
SDA1C Posts: 2,072
edited January 2012 in The Clubhouse
Post pictures of blown tweeters, Drivers, xovers, amps, power supplies, or anything else that just took a $hit after 30 years of use. I'll start...

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I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe that the gurus have NEVER blown a driver/tweet.
If that was the case the tweets/drivers wouldn't have been replaced so many times the holes are stripped and ultimately need Larrys rings.

Anyway.... fun pics to follow I hope. Painful and probably expensive but fun. Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs boys!

Save the, "That wouldn't happen if you didn't abuse things", comments...we all know the reasons but do it any way.
If you say you don't its like denying you ...:redface:

Enjoy!:cheesygrin:
Too much **** to list....
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,389
    edited December 2011
    The guru's know the limitations of their systems and never push their gear beyond those limits. Blown gear is for amateurs and those too wet behind the ears to recognize the error of their ways.

    Larry's rings are not needed for stripped holes. They are needed to do a better job of coupling the drivers to the front baffle. Again if the rings were purchased because of stripped holes, you are an amateur.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2011
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    The guru's know the limitations of their systems and never push their gear beyond those limits. Blown gear is for amateurs and those too wet behind the ears to recognize the error of their ways.
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?104996-LSi-15-partial-meltdown
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,218
    edited December 2011
    I have never blown a tweeter or lost a driver, yes I can honestly say that. I take care of my **** always have, it's not hard to tell when your pushing the limits with your speakers.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,218
    edited December 2011
    Face wrote: »
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?104996-LSi-15-partial-meltdown



    Hahahahahahaha!!!!
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,389
    edited December 2011
    Face wrote: »
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?104996-LSi-15-partial-meltdown

    This was the moment that a guru was born!:lol::cheesygrin:

    BTW the crossovers failed due to design error, and Polk stepped up and replaced both for free.:loneranger:
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2011
    I still say that was user error and you should have footed the bill. They were designed for hifi, not outdoor sound reinforcement.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,389
    edited December 2011
    Face wrote: »
    I still say that was user error and you should have footed the bill. They were designed for hifi, not outdoor sound reinforcement.
    Agreed 110%, and I stated it in that thread more than once. I would have happily paid for them. Polk CS is and always has been top shelf, and I am grateful to them. still looking to get my eras on the 703's at some point, and I would not be at all suprised to find a set of them in my speaker rotation soon just beacuse of the level of service they provide.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited December 2011
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    This was the moment that a guru was born!:lol::cheesygrin:

    BTW the crossovers failed due to design error, and Polk stepped up and replaced both for free.:loneranger:

    I wasn't going to lay blame aside from the actual facts but here it is. I am not familiar with the remote and changed from 2 channel at high volume to PL2 movie settings. Stuff happens but it's all in good fun.

    Looks like you have a tattle tale thread John LOL:biggrin:
    Too much **** to list....
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited December 2011
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    I have never blown a tweeter or lost a driver, yes I can honestly say that. I take care of my **** always have, it's not hard to tell when your pushing the limits with your speakers.

    I have but only in experimental times with cheap drivers till yesterday LOL. Ahh well s it happens lol
    Too much **** to list....
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,601
    edited December 2011
    Wow, you just don't know when to quit do you? I think some of us value our hearing more than to turn an amp wide open trying to blow speakers. I have never blown a speaker in all my years. Maybe I am not that cool though.....:redface:
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,218
    edited December 2011
    halo71 wrote: »
    Wow, you just don't know when to quit do you? I think some of us value our hearing more than to turn an amp wide open trying to blow speakers. I have never blown a speaker in all my years. Maybe I am not that cool though.....:redface:


    Your the only one here with a halo your cool in my book...:cheesygrin:
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited December 2011
    Awful lot of blowing going on here.
    I think i'll move on to a different thread! :eek:
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited December 2011
    I like to insure driver safety with my surround reinforcement tweak.....hard to blow them with this treatment!
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

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  • Neskahi
    Neskahi Posts: 297
    edited December 2011
    Some history is in order here, please.
    SDA 2.3/RDO's... xovers by Ben
    SDA 2.3TL/Stock..
    SDA 1C/Solens/RDO's [gave to my Uncle]
    SDA 2B RDO's
    Snell Type CV
    SDA 1.2TL's
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    GFP750 Adcom
    TFM55X Carver
    M90 Pioneer/C90 Pre
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    Yaqin MC10l
    DCD-1520/1560/2560 Denon
    Marantz DVD-8400
    Carver m1.5T
    DV-79avi Pioneer
    TFM35X x 2
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited December 2011
    Neskahi wrote: »
    Some history is in order here, please.

    Its a pic from awhile back of an actual eBay auction where the seller bragged about repairing the driver's brittle surrounds himself.
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited December 2011
    Nope never blown anything and been in this hobby a long time.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited December 2011
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    Its a pic from awhile back of an actual eBay auction where the seller bragged about repairing the driver's brittle surrounds himself.
    Oh wow. I really have no other appropriate words to say on that.

    I've blown some tweeters in my younger days, and a few recently. I have a set of inexpensive Polk R150's (combined with a PSW650 sub) that I use for karaoke. Well, one night I was having an issue with one of my wireless mics (I think it turned out to just be a dead battery), but somehow I managed to blast some loud microphone feedback from the speakers and blew the tweeter in all three speakers. The speakers worked fine otherwise, but it sounded like you were listening to a 32k MP3 on them. I think what happened is I was playing with the levels on the mixer prior to figuring out the real issue and the levels were still all the way up when I figured out the issue. At any rate, I called Polk customer service and fully disclosed what happened. They were still nice enough to replace the tweeters under warranty. I was prepared to pay for them, but I guess my mother was right, honesty is the right way to go.

    I've been using the speakers for karaoke since then (about 1.5 years), and haven't experienced any more problems thankfully.
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  • Neskahi
    Neskahi Posts: 297
    edited December 2011
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    Its a pic from awhile back of an actual eBay auction where the seller bragged about repairing the driver's brittle surrounds himself.

    Wow. Wouldn't you like you meet that person that did that, just out of curiosity? That picture is a classic.
    SDA 2.3/RDO's... xovers by Ben
    SDA 2.3TL/Stock..
    SDA 1C/Solens/RDO's [gave to my Uncle]
    SDA 2B RDO's
    Snell Type CV
    SDA 1.2TL's
    GFA7700 Adcom
    GFP750 Adcom
    TFM55X Carver
    M90 Pioneer/C90 Pre
    M91 x 2 Pioneers/C91 Pre
    Yaqin MC10l
    DCD-1520/1560/2560 Denon
    Marantz DVD-8400
    Carver m1.5T
    DV-79avi Pioneer
    TFM35X x 2
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,218
    edited December 2011
    Audiocr381ve??
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,601
    edited December 2011
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    Its a pic from awhile back of an actual eBay auction where the seller bragged about repairing the driver's brittle surrounds himself.

    Wow! Did you save the ad by chance?
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited December 2011
    No pic's but I poached a nice pair of SEAS woofers with an inadvertant wiring error in a DIY active crossover resulting in about 45 volts of DC reaching the driver.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2011
    Off the top of my head I haven't roasted a tweeter, or any driver yet.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited December 2011
    halo71 wrote: »
    Wow! Did you save the ad by chance?

    No, just the pic. It has made its way around a few forums over the last few years, but everyone couldn't believe the way the guy ruined drivers that simply needed a refoam job with household caulking.
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

    2 Channel Thorens TD 318 Grado ZF1, SACD/CD Marantz 8260, Soundstream/Krell DAC1, Audio Mirror PP1, Odyssey Stratos, ADS L-1290, ICs-DIY Twisted , Speaker-Raymond Cable
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited December 2011
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    everyone couldn't believe the way the guy ruined drivers that simply needed a refoam job with household caulking.
    Nah he knew what he was doing,the caulking was added to damp nasty resonances in the paper cones.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited December 2011
    Maybe he is related to the guy who wondered if his sub needed an air hole.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,606
    edited December 2011
    My oddyssey amp when it fried blew out the all the resistors in my crossover and the tweeter... that was awesome... ;)
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited December 2011
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    This was the moment that a guru was born!:lol::cheesygrin:

    BTW the crossovers failed due to design error, and Polk stepped up and replaced both for free.:loneranger:


    Hehehe, those same two speakers now grace my HT setup and sound GREATT!!!!!!!!!
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited December 2011
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Maybe he is related to the guy who wondered if his sub needed an air hole.

    He coud be related to the guy that built his sub out of a cardboard box.
    My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited December 2011
    I've blown 1 tweeter, very early in my audio nervana--one of my fischer speakers. Found a replacement at good 'ol rat shack.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited December 2011
    i hooked up some tweeters to my 100 watt ampeg guitar amp....that was abt 30 yrs ago..the only speakers i've killed
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