My tweeter keeps cutting out

[TheGreatMonkey 10+ year member]

As most of you probably already know I have a Hertz component set for my car. The Hertz Energy ESK 165 S to be exact. They have the EV 165 S speaker and the HT18 tweeter. Now my question is, everytime I get the volume to 20/35 the tweeter on the driver side quits. At 19/35 it cuts in and out but at 20/35 it just stops working. I was listening to some band called Ministry. I checked all the wiring and that, and everything is fine. I really haven't played with my amp setting yet. But I have the Bass at 0, the Freq at 90 and the sens probably about 2.5. I have the Phoenix Gold 4.0:2 2 channel amp on this set. Both sides are getting 75 watts RMS each. I even tried different songs and the tweeter still cuts out at 20/35. Is my tweeter already screwed up?

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[Starky 10+ year member]

Metal head eh? I had the same problem i think...this is what I got...

I think your speakers are being pushed to hard

 

[TheGreatMonkey 10+ year member]

It's only one tweeter and thats on the driver side. The one on the passenger side works fine. So what can be causing this?

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

sometimes in a coaxial a tweet will do that. the crystal melts when it gets too hot to protect the tweeter, once it cools off the crystal hardens and you have sound again.

 

[TheGreatMonkey 10+ year member]

I think it's safe to say, my tweeter has died. I don't know how or why but I hope they warrenty this.