Why is my sub making this noise

[SlugButter]

The Dayton Audio sub I’m running will make that noise when I over drive the sub also. Your pushing it past it’s mechanical limit. It sounds like metal rattling on metal….because it is. You’re probably pushing too much power to it and also sending a clipped signal to it. That’s the death rattle. You should be panicking to rush and turn down the volume any time you hear a sub doing that. I almost broke my leg running for the gain knob when my Dayton made this sound.

 

[shredder2]

My Bl sounded exactly like that when the spider came off the basket. It only became loud when pushed hard and it was loud. Coil tap was different... Sharper more metallic.

Id bet its one of the 2.

Hard to tell on a cell speaker.

 

[JC25]

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I was over powering it and turned off the bass boost and it is not making the noise thank you for all of y’all’s help

 

[SlugButter]

This is exactly the type of thing that causes a person to upgrade. Turning down the bass solved the problem. So….What sub are you going to get next?

 

[JC25]

This is exactly the type of thing that causes a person to upgrade. Turning down the bass solved the problem. So….What sub are you going to get next?

Thinking about a Rockford P3 or P2

 

[audiobaun 5,000+ posts]

Thinking about a Rockford P3 or P2

Id run a S.Qubed sub for the money or an American bass

 

[SlugButter]

American Bass is legit at a reasonable price.

 

[djdilliodon!]

Anytime a subwoofer makes noise like that, it’s due to something either hitting the cone (leads etc), coil bottoming out, failure of a glue joint (spider, cone, coil to cone etc) etc. Seems to me this is a perfect excuse to upgrade!