What breaks speakers? It could happen to you!

[capadav]

I have a broken mid range and tweeter. Fanaticq 100w rms.

The one side is blown while the other is alright. The speakers were hooked up to the crossover right but the crossover was hooked up in reverse. Could that blow them? Isn't that what the reverse polarity swittch does for the tweeter?

The tweeter puts out barely any sound and it is not full. The 5.25" works alright till mid volume and then starts to make that buzz noise you always hear on crappy speakers. What is that sound called? distortion? clipping?

Did the amp mess up these speakers or maybe the head unit. Only the one side is bad and I switch things around to see if it was something other then those 2 speakers, but they are bad?

But why? I want to try and repair it. It is a bad wire? Has any one done this?

Please help,

Dave

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[ssj2xxgotenxx 10+ year member]

Well the humming noise could be coming from your wiring... What kinda amp you got? sometimes cheap amps have cheap quality.. If your amp is high quality and still making the humming noise you might wanna check your wiring. Sometimes the B+ 12 volt power interferes with the RCA signal producing the Humming noise. So if thats the case just run the RCA along the other side of the car. As for the blow speaker... [no clue]

 

[capadav]

it is not an alternator hum or anything, though the car did have alternator hum for a few months or so. it is like a rattle noise, like a cheap plastic radio makes if you turned it up to loud. The speaker use to work fine and the amp is also a kenwood 728. Could the amp have gone bad on that one channel?