Blown Tweeters
CWHITE
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Hello Everyone
1st Post!!
I purchased monitor 70s about a month ago and have been slowly breaking them in. Last night I had some friends over and I turned the volume a bit louder than I have been listening to and I blew both tweeters.
Surprised the hell out of me. I've had many speaker in my life and have never blown a tweeter before. The volume was loud, but not maxed out. The Onkyo puts out 130 watts at 100%. I had it up to about 80%.
Not sure how to proceed. I sent Polk and email. I hope it is a simple process to get new tweeters.
Should I be able to turn the volume put this high without the tweeter burning out?
1st Post!!
I purchased monitor 70s about a month ago and have been slowly breaking them in. Last night I had some friends over and I turned the volume a bit louder than I have been listening to and I blew both tweeters.
Surprised the hell out of me. I've had many speaker in my life and have never blown a tweeter before. The volume was loud, but not maxed out. The Onkyo puts out 130 watts at 100%. I had it up to about 80%.
Not sure how to proceed. I sent Polk and email. I hope it is a simple process to get new tweeters.
Should I be able to turn the volume put this high without the tweeter burning out?
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Hello Everyone
The volume was loud, but not maxed out. The Onkyo puts out 130 watts at 100%. I had it up to about 80%.
Should I be able to turn the volume put this high without the tweeter burning out?
The position of the volume knob and the amount of power correlate but are not absolute! Depending on the level of the source: you could go into clipping at the halfway point on the volume knob if the source has a high level, or not at all, even at the volume control's limit, if the source has a very low level.
It sounds like you took the amp into clipping, which makes square wave output that fries a tweeter very quickly.:o
Cheers, JimA day without music is like a day without food. -
Thanks
The reason I said I was at about 80% is the receiver goes up to 99 and I have it turn up to to 78. About 80%.
How would you avoid clipping. Is that you just can't turn the volume up?? Better speakers?? -
Jim nailed it.How would you avoid clipping. Is that you just can't turn the volume up?? Better speakers??
Yes, keeping the volume level down will avoid the problem.
It's not the speakers, it's your AVR. If you want to turn it up louder without clipping, you'll need to add an external amp.Political Correctness'.........defined
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