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Aug 30, 2007 | 11:07 PM

screw991le

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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12

Blown Speaker???

I have a newly installed set of Infinity 6010cs. They are in the front doors. I noticed that the right side on some music, the sound is all distorted.

I have the tweeters set on the lower setting (-1db) on the crossover. I also had the Amp set to high pass on 80mhz. Which gave the system to much bass. Now I have it closer to 120mhz it sounds a little better but not awesome.

Is the speaker gone? It does not do it on all songs, just mostly hard rock, which I like. So that is what I have on my iPod.

Advise?

Thanks

Aug 30, 2007 | 11:13 PM

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Is this your first time using the ipod in the car? If so, you may want to turn of the EQ on the ipod. I had mine on and had similar sound until I turned off the EQ setting. Then again it could be anything from a bad channel on the amp or just exactly as you say - a blown speaker.

Aug 31, 2007 | 08:24 AM

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Thanks, but the EQ is off. Can I use any tweeter to replace the one I have or does it need to be the same type?

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Aug 31, 2007 | 08:53 AM

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Thanks, but the EQ is off. Can I use any tweeter to replace the one I have or does it need to be the same type?

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try and stick to the same type. But if you are just testing for the problem, then you can use any tweeter.

Aug 31, 2007 | 09:43 AM

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Recommend a cheap replacement?

Aug 31, 2007 | 11:11 AM

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Im shocked u blew the tweet, when I used to run the refernece components I beat the hell out of them and way over powered and never an issue with the tweets

Aug 31, 2007 | 01:12 PM

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Im shocked u blew the tweet, when I used to run the refernece components I beat the hell out of them and way over powered and never an issue with the tweets

It is not crackling or such, it just sounds distorted. I am going to fool around when the amp setting a little more and see.

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Aug 31, 2007 | 03:45 PM

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St. Jude Donor '08

try downloading and playing high frequency test tones:

http://www.marchandelec.com/sweeps.htm

turn your fader and balance towards the speaker in question. The tweeter should be able to play cleanly through all the frequencies.

Tweeter distortion can somtimes occur with a poor connection or a loose mount. This happend in my silverado, the tweeter in the door broke off the plastic mount and fell into the door resulting in horrible sound.