New mids or new components?
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New mids or new components?
Well I think both of my mids are shot you can see my previous post here
Can I buy just mids? Or should I just buy some CDT's?
The Zeb has some limited edition Carbon Fiber High definition CDT's for $299 and 4 year warranty. How do these sound?
[Modified by MVP, 9:29 AM 8/20/2003]
Can I buy just mids? Or should I just buy some CDT's?
The Zeb has some limited edition Carbon Fiber High definition CDT's for $299 and 4 year warranty. How do these sound?
[Modified by MVP, 9:29 AM 8/20/2003]
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Re: New mids or new components? (Kale)
It's pretty damn hard to kill a Focal Utopia speaker (Believe me, I've tried.) I'd test the speakers for continuity first...
Exactly how did you try to kill a Utopia and WHY!
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Re: New mids or new components? (MVP)
Just playing with bass boost, test tones, and crossover settings. Do you know someone else with a stereo that can test them for you?
when testing a non mounted speaker, you want to run the gains ALL the way down and start the volume at 0, slowly raise it to see if you hear the sound.
when testing a non mounted speaker, you want to run the gains ALL the way down and start the volume at 0, slowly raise it to see if you hear the sound.
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Re: New mids or new components? (Kale)
What tweeters do you have now?
Let me know if you wanna sell them or split the new set.
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Let me know if you wanna sell them or split the new set.
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Re: New mids or new components? (Kale)
It's pretty damn hard to kill a Focal Utopia speaker (Believe me, I've tried.) I'd test the speakers for continuity first...
Is there a way to fix speakers? :confused:
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Re: New mids or new components? (MVP)
are they under warranty? im sure that Focal can fix them either way.. but I'd be worried you might toast them again. its unusual for one W speaker to go, but both?
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Re: New mids or new components? (Kale)
are they under warranty? im sure that Focal can fix them either way.. but I'd be worried you might toast them again. its unusual for one W speaker to go, but both?
What do you think could have happened for them to "toast"? I have a very similar set up to yours (same HU and amps). My gains are set about half way. I had the utopia's crossed over at about 65hz, and I was about to change to up to 80hz this past weekend, but I guess I didn't get a chance for that.
Would water damage them? It does get wet in the C5 doors! There is a little rust spot on the inside of the hole of the magnet.
Also does the sub level on the HU control the sub-w out only?
THis sucks driving around with no music. This car is my daily driver.
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Re: New mids or new components? (MVP)
either they got so hot they burned, or it was mechanical damage. Neither of which should be an issue with that amp. Neither of which should really happen at the same time. When you say you tested for continuity..
did you use an ohmmeter set to 0-20 ohm and measure directly from the speaker terminals?
Water COULD damage them. I'd imagine my c4 would have been way worse for that though, and it wasnt an issue.
Did you buy them used?
yeah, the sub out is a sub volume control basically. 15 is nominal, then you can reduce it 15 steps.
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did you use an ohmmeter set to 0-20 ohm and measure directly from the speaker terminals?
Water COULD damage them. I'd imagine my c4 would have been way worse for that though, and it wasnt an issue.
Did you buy them used?
yeah, the sub out is a sub volume control basically. 15 is nominal, then you can reduce it 15 steps.
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Re: New mids or new components? (Kale)
did you use an ohmmeter set to 0-20 ohm and measure directly from the speaker terminals?
Did you buy them used?