I got a big problem with my polks

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

Naw, I bought them used on this forum. They were in perfect shape, its def not the sellers fault, it mine. I have owned plenty of polk speakers over the years and they all do this, any time I run more than the RMS the tweeter goes. I have a set of EX3 5x7s that I bought for lil or nothing brand new from Crutchfield, RMS 60w fed them 75w (of a MTX 342) and the tweeter went. My cousin bought the same speakers at the same time but ran his off a small kicker (37.5 x 2) and the same thing happen. Im very familar with setting gains, and have quite a few years exp install car audio, so I know its not that. I figured the extra 20w over RMS from my Orion should have not cooked them like it did.

I may hand on to them and order new tweeters like you did, but I dont want to risk the chance of frying them again lol.

i didnt order new tweets, i inquired with polk and when they told me 120 for the pair i said hell no lol i bought the used comp set off here for 90 bucks.

like i said before i fed my tweets 150 rms a piece actively for about a month with no prob. now i have them biamped(essentially active being that i can set gain for mid, tweet independently just using the supplied crossovers) dont know exactly what makes a tweeter sensitive but ive handled a couple pairs of tweets the last couple months (interfire, kicker, polk, alpine..kept trying to find one that would fit the momo flush mount cup but didnt have any success!) and they seemed to be built much better than any of the other ones i bought. definitely much heavier than all of them.

ive got a set of new kicker nd25a 1 inch silk tweets i bought off ebay i might sell if you want them. 125 rms dont have crossovers for them but i do have mounting hardware and wires. if you are interested pm me.