What temperature is "too cold" to bump??

[DBDRAGGUY 10+ year member]

Just let the **** car warm up .

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

Just let the **** car warm up .

X2

 

[Racerx250 10+ year member]

I blew a polk tweeter before when it was pretty hot outside. I had it off all day turned it to the max and blew a tweeter. dont know if that helps but just throwing it out there.

 

[mugen08 10+ year member]

One thing you gotta watch out fr is the spider/ basket glue joint. The glue usually doesn't hold onto metal that good, and can become hard and fail at this joint.

Let them warm up before wangin on 'em

 

[BassAce 10+ year member]

I would check the manual of your amp to see it's operating temperatures.

 

[thorshammer1 10+ year member]

It's cold here in Auburn, NY. I typically turn my amp down during the winter but I do think some of the sound changes in my car are due mostly to diff. sounding rattle that occours with frozen doors. LOL

 

[Buttlice 10+ year member]

Im running a JBL p1222 at 1200watts there gets to be a bit of moisture in my trunk it iced in my trunk when it got REALLY cold here few weeks ago. Anyway, i cracked the seal on my enclosure and got a new one. This one is better though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif oh and since my car is a rust bucket POS Honda Civic, the latch no longer works and my trunk is bungeed rofl

i think thats a lesson learned?

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

i think someone did a test on the forum a few years ago and cold doesnt hurt your subs?

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

if there is frost on your amp.. .don't use it (my amps get frosted when its under 25Deg)

 

[snb778 5,000+ posts]

One thing you gotta watch out fr is the spider/ basket glue joint. The glue usually doesn't hold onto metal that good, and can become hard and fail at this joint.
Let them warm up before wangin on 'em

blew the surround off my 6.5" on X-mas

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

The answer to the question is absloute zero......

 

[nabissssco 10+ year member]

lol or softcore, your choice. I was just saying something. I bump no matter how cold it is but im only bumping stock anyway. Who gives a fvck when its bose //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif:laugh://content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif:laugh://content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif cant wait till i get the DC's

Yeah, I agree. Bose is the worst audio equipment EVER! Anybody who says they like them you know instantly knows nothing about good sound. The home audio from them is the worst. I always laugh when people talk up the system they have and than you find out its Bose equipment.

 

[microhaxo 10+ year member]

For me its anything under 8 degrees F and i hear a noticeable difference between 10 degrees and 20 degrees. At 35 the bass hits nice, anything under that and you start to get less output because of stiffer surround hard glue etc.

I live in MN too. I broke the spider of an old sub by playing it in the cold, the cabin was warm but i didnt let the sub play at low level first so i just turned it up and started listening, couldnt hear anything wrong till i opened the trunk and heard an awful noise, then i pushed on the cone and heard a horrible noise, look on the side and the spider tore away from the cone.

**** winter!

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

I don't have a problem here in MN other than output below 100 hz or so is basically non-existent as you get down to 0*F. The cold air mainly affects the Vas (compliance) and Fs but I fail to see how it's bad for a piece of mechanical equipment that looses at least 95% to heat anyway. If anything, cold helps in many ways.

Be sensable and don't crank it from the get-go.

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

maybe it was sounddomain that they did a test. im pretty sure someone put a sub in the freezer and tried it after and there was nothing wrong with using a cold sub.