How do you tell if you damaged a driver?

[deweys2]

I got happy with the volume knob and smelled burning from a 6.5 driver.

Is there any way to know? Will the sound quality be low...poor?

Thanks

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[wew lad 5,000+ posts]

you'll hear it, if you push on the cone and it scratches its bad

small drivers like that will not handle any clipping or overpowering for long, if at all

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

As wew lad said, and do the simple battery test too which is free.

My question is how do you know the smell came from a 6.5" speaker? Not the sub or amp.

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

I would not press the cone, mids don't have high gap tolerance so any pressure off dead center will cause you to hear some type of rubbing noise. Pull the mid(s) out put them on a multimeter see what they are reading at and play it free air on mid power level and see if you can hear any rubbing noise.

 

[deweys2]

I quickly turned off power and smelled each component: tweets,eq,HU,amps.crossovers....

Didn't take door panels off!

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Get the bloodhounds

 

[OKAY]

I have booty *** alpine 5x7s doing rated power i smell them all the time

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