crackeling sound in one of my mids

[PESteele 10+ year member]

I got the rainbow soundline slc's and it seems as if one of them is crackeling sometimes. Anyone know what might be the problem. Im hoping its just a wire or something hitting the back of the cone.

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[PESteele 10+ year member]

bump

 

[luvinthebass 5,000+ posts]

that is a possibilty or a tinsel lead hittin the cone, could use some electrical tape and carefully tape the speaker leads so if they hit the cone they won't make that crackling sound, i did that with one of my rear 6 x 8's i used to have. worked very well //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[SlickCMRick 10+ year member]

i have the same problem in my right speaker and cant fix it

 

[PESteele 10+ year member]

would it be possible to just put a piece of felt on the cone where the tinsels would hit like on most subs or would taping be better

 

[Worlddre 5,000+ posts]

putting felt on the cone would add weight to the cone thus changing numerous things about the driver as well as cause non-linear movement..depending on how long the tinsels are (if it really is tinsel slap) you could try glueing them down as supa c did with his aa poly mids.

doesnt sound like tinsel slap to me though as it is only from one speaker. take the mid out and test it to see if it truely is tinsel slap.

 

[PESteele 10+ year member]

well i took it out and it doesnt really do it at all

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

I had an SLC crackling and it was blown... Don't know how it happened.. But 6spd was nice enough to replace it!

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

turn the volume down? the slc tweets my cousin has will crackel when they are distorting and this may be a noobish idea but hey...

 

[acold7dusta 10+ year member]

put a gasket between the speaker and the plastic piece, thats what i did, so much tighter, and no more leaks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[Mugen 10+ year member]

I had a problem with that but it turned out to be a bad ground wire. Not sure why, but it was much stronger on one speaker, but you could barely hear it on the others

 

[Brad H. 10+ year member]

I had the same problem with one of my tweeters. It was an intermittent type of problem. Checked all wiring, swapped channels and cleaned RCA's, etc. Turned out to be a broken connection in my crossover. A little solder and I was good to go. These were Cantons, not Rainbow.