AHHHH!!!! Whats wrong with my sub!!??!!??

[Redlineaudio 10+ year member]

or its thermal limit and the coil came unwound

made a Slinky.

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

now am I looking at a single voicecoil, or is that 2, or 4 or can it be any of the above...
UPDATE: just went out to the car and pushed down on the cone..and YES, IT MAKES A SCRATCHING SOUND. So this means it reached its mechanical limit, and the coil came un-wound right?

I g/g make a run and pick up some hardware... be back in an hour.

Thanks for the help guys... This sh*t stressed me the F0ck out.

or you pushed on 1 side ?

scratching sound is no indication of damage if you dont push evenly in the centre.

i can make a perfect sub scratch by pushing on 1 side

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

http://www.caraudiomag.com/specialfeatures/0109cae_anatomy_subwoofer/index.html

click the link and be done with it... "anatomy of a subwoofer".

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

yes you have to push evenly on the cone so as to not make it scrape lol

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

i did the same on both subs.. one consistently made the sound, the other made no sound at all....

Im taking it out right now

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

ok...so first of all... I pushed on the cone again, and it did only scratch cause I didnt push it in the middle... got the same sound of the other one, so sry to whoever mentioned that I may have done that, cause thats what it looks like I did.. Besides that...

Here is what I tested.





So I have no idea what is goin on... Might just be the new box, and I am not used to it NOT having the low end power, or the new cd I was playing might have had shitty quality... (was one I burned from a download on the "Bass thread" that someone posted like 10 pages ago

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

bump.. any more ideas?? think it was just the sound of a different box...and the weird sound I heard was the spider slapping for a second, and nothing really happened?

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

bump.. any more ideas?? think it was just the sound of a different box...and the weird sound I heard was the spider slapping for a second, and nothing really happened?

it is feasible.....run them more, try different sources, and see if there are any differences

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

wat kinda box izzit?

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

Please help, no experience in strange sounds coming from subs
I was bumpin on the way to work today, and there was a song playing with a bass sweep in it from high to low....when it went down low, I noticed a loss in low end power, and sounded like the sub was slapping for a second or 2... Now my system is running at about 85%... The subs still plays, but it makes a sound as if something was rattling around inside it....

Does this mean I blew the sub, or blew a voicecoil......other?????

voltage drop? / + or clip

 

[davey2020 10+ year member]

I thought my type rs where making noises too on the lows. But after i investigated further turned out it was just my trim panels in the back of my tracker. Don't think this will help but hope everything turns out good for you.

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

voltage drops a little bit, but not suddenly any more than it already did