keep blowing tweeters!!!!

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

what do you mean by ''better tweeters''?

i am willing to bet you are either clipping the signal or the tweeters are being crossed to low.

if they are being sent a clipped signal then you need more power for the volume you listen at.

if they are being crossed to low then cross them higher or get tweeters that can handle a lower crossover point.

if they are simply being over powered with clean unclipped power and they are at a safe crossover point, then they aren't of decent quality and you need to find a quality set of tweeters.

speakers fail for a reason, you just need to figure out the reason.

 

[endofdays89 5,000+ posts]

I think i figured out the problem. I just looked at my amp and my hpf was set at almost 80. Thats really low for a high pass filter, so i turned it to a higher level. I'm guessing that was the problem. What is a prefered level for a hpf anyway.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

I think i figured out the problem. I just looked at my amp and my hpf was set at almost 80. Thats really low for a high pass filter, so i turned it to a higher level. I'm guessing that was the problem. What is a prefered level for a hpf anyway.

if the tweeters are on a passive crossover then that crossover will be crossing the tweeters over. the high pass filter is for the mids, and 80hz should be a good place to be for most 6.5" mids.

you need to find out the impedance of the tweeters like the other poster had said.

 

[endofdays89 5,000+ posts]

they are 4 0hms

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

ok, then how much power per channel is your amp @ 4 ohms?

what tweeters are they anyway?

 

[endofdays89 5,000+ posts]

150 watts rms per channel. I am using cheap *** peizo tweets right now because i broke my alpines on accident.

 

[zack39648 10+ year member]

how exactly manage to break your new tweeters /???

 

[endofdays89 5,000+ posts]

i went to grab a tool or something and stepped on them. I'm not to worried about the quality of the tweeters though as long as they work. I've never blown tweeters before, so this is weird

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

with 150 watts per side you are probably ok in terms of clipping, depending on how loud you listen. i'd say grab another set of good 4 ohm tweeters, not cheap *** peizo's and you should be ok.

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

I blew the tweets on my 5x7's the other day //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Just on one of them, and its buggin the shit out of me, then again what do you expect from $20 speakers

 

[endofdays89 5,000+ posts]

with 150 watts per side you are probably ok in terms of clipping, depending on how loud you listen. i'd say grab another set of good 4 ohm tweeters, not cheap *** peizo's and you should be ok.

shouldn't i match the tweeter sensitivity with the component's sensitivity too?

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

less power or better xover perfeably better xover so you could feed them better power

 

[Korn4Life 5,000+ posts]

I have a nice set of old skool Kicker Resolution R25 tweeters that will handle anything u can throw at them... If intrested let me know

 

[vehementSPL 10+ year member]

I am by no means an expert with tweeters at all. But honestly from what I have seen tweeters peak rating can be over 10 times the rms of them. And sometimes the rms as well. most tweeters are SOO overated on power it isn't even funny. Your ext crossovers or bass blockers should be keeping this from happening. If you have these in place your setting on your amp shouldn't matter. And for the record. sensitivity has NOTHING to do with power handling and really is a pointless number

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

shouldn't i match the tweeter sensitivity with the component's sensitivity too?

as long as they are within a couple db you'll be ok. i'd say anywhere between 86-90db should be fine, which is where most tweeters fall anyway.