Sign of bad voice coils?

[BurgerKing 10+ year member]

I've got 2 solo baric 12's in my car, and when when I open the trunk they sound like crap. They make a funny muffled noise. But when the trunk is closed they sound ok, except for on really low notes. So are my voice coils about to burn up or something?

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[brad 10+ year member]

my guess is a torn spider, take the subs out of the box and look on the creases of the spider (the yellow part) and see they have started to seperate from the voice coil.

 

[Str8Up 10+ year member]

I've got 2 solo baric 12's in my car, and when when I open the trunk they sound like crap. They make a funny muffled noise. But when the trunk is closed they sound ok, except for on really low notes. So are my voice coils about to burn up or something?

Are they ported?

My friend had some ported solo-barics, and when he played songs with lows they made weird noises. Maybe the box was tuned too high or somethin'.

 

[bigred78797 10+ year member]

OR it could be the fact that when you open your trunk that changes the air pressure parameters of the car and you subs become harder to control. And with it closed it is in a more controlled environment. Just like with alot of high end competition setup your speakers may be relying on the cabin(trunk) pressure for control of the sub. That or you subs my sound the same with the trunk closed but you cant hear the distortion due the the back seat blocking alot of the distorted waves.

 

[BurgerKing 10+ year member]

Yes my subs are ported but they did the same thing in a sealed enclosure. And I was thinking the same thing about just not being able to hear the distortion due to them being in the trunk.