How would one test the drivers on a cs1?

Nightsbane
Nightsbane Posts: 100
edited March 2010 in Troubleshooting
I have had several topics about a tinny cs1, and since I got it have wondered if the drivers are even working. How would I go about testing them out to see?

thanks
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited March 2010
    CS1 a center channel

    start

    1. swap and compare another CS1 center channel speaker if one is available.

    2. remove each individual speaker component which are the two mid-bass driver
    and check for continuity, resistance. Possible open coil which mean you will need
    to have the bad speaker driver(s) replaced.

    3. replace any open fuses and also examine the crossover.

    4. can use a simple dry cell battery to test the speaker.
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  • Nightsbane
    Nightsbane Posts: 100
    edited March 2010
    Perhaps my expectations are simply different than reality here? I tried a "touch test" and and feeling vibrations from the left and right bass drivers. I guess that means they are working, it's just not near as throaty as I would like.
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  • Nightsbane
    Nightsbane Posts: 100
    edited March 2010
    OK, bit of an update. I popped in god of war III (a new playstation 3 game with supreme sound) tonight and did some testing. I noticed that audio coming out of the left and right sounded great. The vocals had great range and thumping base.

    The center channel was extremely localized. Any time it played I could hear exactly where the speaker was, and it stuck out. It had very little range, and was very flat and blatty. It stuck out like a sore thumb. I changed the crossover from 80 to 110 and it made it much better, except now it sounds like it's on all the time. Instead of just hums and thumps vocals from the central drone on with constant bass. At 100 or less it just goes back to blatty sound.

    The cs1 center is defintely sounding terrible compared to the monitor 50s, and I have been turning it down just to try and make it blend. Does this sound like a problem with the unit based on what I have said now?
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  • kcoc321
    kcoc321 Posts: 1,788
    edited March 2010
    NB, I replied in your other post about this.
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