Possible Damage to Speakers?

[Ridley 10+ year member]

Well... I have the $300 Pioneer Premier comps and I did something stupid today. I was showing off to my friends and was gonna play a crazy bass song for em. "Beam Me Up" if you guys know of it. So I started cranking it... no bass. I knew it gets loud so I kept going higher. Safe to say, I REALLY cranked the volume louder than I ever did before and found out I had my subs turned down to 0. Once I reached a volume level of 34 on my HU, my Mids farted when the bass from the song hit its lowest note. I freaked and quickly turned it down.

I recently had a shop put some spacers in to fit my bigger comp speakers into my door panel.

Now my questions to you guys are this...

1) Could it have been my mids touching the back of the casing on my car door when the note hit? It was an extremely low sub note.

2) Are my speakers damaged now? They sound awesome all the way up to 32, which is about 90% my max volume the HU will possibly go. Once I hit 34, I heard the loud fart noise. Is this just cause I was putting too much power to them? My one friend said that they are probably damaged but he doesn't really know anything about speakers.

3) Will setting crossovers prevent this in the future? My mids seem to play bass as well.... The same freq ranges as my sub but a lot softer.

Thanks for the help guys. I'm freakin out and I hope they aren't damaged.

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[Ridley 10+ year member]

anyone?

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Set your HPF to ~80hz.

Most likely no damage to the speakers, you were just overpowering them for a little bit. As long as they still sound OK on the correct volume level, don't worry about it.

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

Set your HPF to ~80hz.
Most likely no damage to the speakers, you were just overpowering them for a little bit. As long as they still sound OK on the correct volume level, don't worry about it.

x2.....speakers most likely bottomed out. You MIDS should not be playing LOW frequencies and like already stated use a hpf around 80hz at 12 db slope

 

[Bigbear 10+ year member]

for some reason my mids make that sound only when i play that fn song, i know its weird but i noticed it whnevr i play that song it has a weird sweep i think

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

for some reason my mids make that sound only when i play that fn song, i know its weird but i noticed it whnevr i play that song it has a weird sweep i think

probably distortion in the recording

 

[Ridley 10+ year member]

So mids aren't supposed to bump like a sub at all? I'm glad they are not damaged though.

Guys... I'm serious. Download Beam Me Up by Tay Dizm. CRAZY bass for a song...

Makes A Milli sound like tweets.

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

So mids aren't supposed to bump like a sub at all? I'm glad they are not damaged though.

That's why they are called mids... They're supposed to handle the frequencies in middle of the range. At most a mid can be able to play midbass (IIRC 80hz-150hz)

 

[Ridley 10+ year member]

Ok... bad news.

My mids are farting around 24 now... On A Milli and Beam Me Up.

It wasn't doing this before. WTF is going on.

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

this is an extremly hard to answer question

we cant see how they are mounted

what your amps gains are set at

what the HU settings are

or what noise you are talking about

take it to someone who knows whats up

 

[Techchild 10+ year member]

Did you set the hpf?

 

[Ridley 10+ year member]

I never got a chance to set the crossovers yet... so no.

All I know is it wasn't making this noise before and I cranked it a lot louder. I think they are blown or ripped.

They sound fine on every other song tho... this is so retarded

 

[Adrianos 10+ year member]

You cant go wrong with 80hz

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

Sounds like you could have damaged the suspension... I'd say pull out the mid and do a visual once-over.

 

[Ridley 10+ year member]

****it I spent over 300 dollars for these **** things and they are broke after 3 weeks. I don't think it could get any worse for me right now.