Need someone with some XXX knowledge here!!

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

So I take my XXX 15" which supposedly has 10 hours of playing time in to have my audio shop look it over. They tell me it is dead! Blown! Is the center of this thing supposed to move freely? Like the area where the XXX is? When he pushed on mine and it didn't he said right then it is shot. I am thinking maybe it was just something got F'd in the shipping. I tried to get him to power it one time and he wouldn't. Said it was no use but I harped enough and he Ohm tested it. He said that wasn't right either. I don't know what the readings should be or things to check. I e-mailed the guy I got it from and he said it was fine. He can't believe anything at all is wrong with it and tells me to put power to it. I am gun-shy and don't want to do shit right now until I can prove out it is bad or not. Any suggestions?

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[95bat 10+ year member]

Every speaker I ever owned could actually move. I think that's how they make bass //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

If you can't push on the cone and move the speaker, it be ded. Unless XXX's are weird like that.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

use a 9volt battery 2 see if it moves

 

[haunther]

Why don't you test it you self?

Might just be another ******** shop trying to sell you shit.

Did he have any knowledge of RE as a brand?

Yea an also push on the cone and listen for any VC scraping.

Also if the sub dosent move at all maybe the moter is frozen //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

fucc a 9 volt, use a car battery.

if youc ant push the cone in freely that means that the motor shifted in shipping and its pinching the coil.only fix for that is either rebulding the sub

or knocking the magnet back center w a hammer but protect the mag from chipping.

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

How do you do this 9V battery test? You can push on it all day long as it doesn't move a bit. I thought he was going to bust out the center pushing on it so hard. He knows about RE but doesn't deal in them. He installed everything in my car including the SE-12 in there now.

 

[95bat 10+ year member]

You just hook positive to positive and neg to neg. Tap the wires and the speaker should pop out (or in, if polarity is reversed). You can use a battery from a cordless drill, that usually works too.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

car batt pwns all

 

[profundus-sanus 10+ year member]

if he was pushin it real hard and it wouldn't move the subs hurt...

how was the packaging that you got it in?

 

[TeamPSI 10+ year member]

Robin... you cant just whack it back to center.

Sounds like the motor was broken during shipping. IF and only IF I could get it apart and properly re-centered and glued.... you'd need a recone and the cost of doing the motor repair/realigning.

 

[mobeious 10+ year member]

fucc a 9 volt, use a car battery.
if youc ant push the cone in freely that means that the motor shifted in shipping and its pinching the coil.only fix for that is either rebulding the sub

or knocking the magnet back center w a hammer but protect the mag from chipping.

wow

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

I tried hooking it up to a car battery in the basement.... made a little noise but didn't move in or out regardless of how I put the wires.

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

Oh... It is in the original wooden RE crate with the packing foam around it then inside a box.

So my SE-12 was shipped in even less of a box/crate. Why would this one of shifted? And how can that prevented with a box/crate design that was any different?

 

[TeamPSI 10+ year member]

SE's dont need nearly as much packaging. They weigh 20lbs.. a XXX weighs 60.

Sometimes shit just happens. FedEx, UPS, etc tend to smash things.

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

So are you saying I should file a FedEx claim? Wouldn't it be kind of hard to prove if no damage to the box is done?

So is this thing a shift victim or is it blown?