Mid's bleeding through and distorting tweeters. bad crossover?

[timma100 10+ year member]

This started happening a couple months ago, running a Hertz EP4 in 2 channel on a pair of Hertz mids, highs, and crossovers. (I honestly don't remember the model its been so long sens I looked at them) The deck is a DEH-80PRS, fronts are crossed in the deck at 80Hz with a 12db slope (trying to eliminate this issue) and the amp is wide open. No settings have changed, but now when certain mid bass frequencies play in tracks, they come out of the tweeters as well, completely sounding like **** and distorting everything. I don't think the tweeters are blown, because songs that don't have certain mid bass frequencies play perfectly (mid bass actually comes out of mids and highs are clean). So im kind of at a loss here, my first assumption is that the crossover is bleeding through (perhaps they're blown) but I really don't know.

Any advice would be awesome, im happy to test any suggestions.

Thanks and I hope you're all enjoying your Christmas

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[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

If the crossovers were blown then you would have no sound on all or some of the speakers. So I doubt they are. Prolly just a phase or setting issue Try setting the deck a bit higher in the frequency filter and toning down the bass a bit not should work

 

[timma100 10+ year member]

If the crossovers were blown then you would have no sound on all or some of the speakers. So I doubt they are. Prolly just a phase or setting issue Try setting the deck a bit higher in the frequency filter and toning down the bass a bit not should work

Everything's flat on the deck, cross is as high as it will go for the fronts :\

 

[timma100 10+ year member]

If the crossovers were blown then you would have no sound on all or some of the speakers. So I doubt they are. Prolly just a phase or setting issue Try setting the deck a bit higher in the frequency filter and toning down the bass a bit not should work

Everything's flat on the deck, cross is as high as it will go for the fronts :\

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

Thought you said they wee crossed at 80 hrtz

 

[timma100 10+ year member]

Thought you said they wee crossed at 80 hrtz

Oh yeah my bad, crossed them at 120hz, mid driver output is nearly gone, but in extremely low bass songs I get occasional popping through the tweeters when the bass hits (sub 30hz stuff). Crossed at 200hz the mid drivers do nothing but highs are clean

 

[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

Could just worn out. But sounds like a setting is to low

 

[calebkhill 10+ year member]

Tweets crack a bass drop?

Check wiring, especially grounds.

Your voltage good?