Driver side speaker soft, then loud

[jeepnstuff 10+ year member]

Ok, so for the past couple of months I have been dealing with the midbass in my driver side door sounding "softer"..like it isnt getting the same power as the passenger side.

Sometimes I will be driving along, and all of a sudden the driver side speaker will cut on and sound (imo) like it is supposed to. I have to adjust the settings on my H/U to take my balance from Left2 to 0.

What I can tell you is that when the speaker comes alive it sounds fantastic, what I can't tell you is why it is doing this..

I don't notice a difference in the tweeter when the mid "cuts on"

I checked the connections on the mids, and they seem fine. Connections coming off the amplifier is fine..nothing loose or fitted poorly.

I was told to switch the rca's around on my amp to see if the problem would occur with my passenger side speakers, but I run Zapco ref series amps with the symbilink..so no go there.

I could do it off of my H/U but I figured I would come here to see what other people had to say about it before i dig deeper and start taking stuff apart.

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[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

are the speaker wires cut or pinched?

 

[jrwalte 10+ year member]

Sounds as if most likely something is loose. Where is the crossover? Make sure it isn't water damaged. How do you have the wire going through your door? Maybe it is getting pinched?

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

or the jacket is cut and periodically grounding the speaker out.

 

[jeepnstuff 10+ year member]

The crossovers on next to my amp, does not appear that they are water damaged.

The wires are going through the boot from inside the car to the door, it does not appear the wires are being pinched..

I will check the speaker wires more closely, the wires are pretty old and i guess its possible that they might be cut somewhere.