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8X10 parinia

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Emergancy Exit

Sep 26, 2007
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#1
ok i have the Ampeg 8x10e and i frequently put my ears to each of the speakers to be sure all of the speakers work.

does anyone else do this? is there a better way to check? (without pulling grill off of cab) because i know it is probable that i can have my ear up to the speaker but i could be hearing the three speakers around the one i have me ear up to.

i dont THINK or have suspissions that one is broke but i like have to check ..... if a speaker was blown would you "just know" or would there be a very bad noise comeing from the cab?
 
#3
Well, generally, it will sound like you have a blown speaker. If blowing a speaker didn't effect the sound, there would be no reason to worry about it.

Seems like kind of a silly question, like "How do I know my car is out of gas?"
 
#4
I have had a few blow on my old Peavey 4x10. I kinda got a complex about it and started snatching up all the loose 10" Peavey speakers I could find. Wound up with enough to build a 6x10 and I still got 4 rolling around for an emergency. :rolleyes:

I don't know exactly what was going on, but I was killing the speaker all together. Not torn, not sounding blown, just completely not working. If you are worried that this is happening, there is a quick and painless way to check.

Plug a speaker cable into the back of the cab (and take the grill off for this). Take the other end of the cable and touch the 1/4" plug to the contacts of a 9V battery. All the speakers in the cabinet should move the same way (all in or all out). If one or more fails to move after a few jumpstarts, that (or those) speaker(s) are probably goners.
 
#5
If a speaker simply failed you'd be unlikely to realise it especially if it was one of the lower ones. If you have no reason to suspect that it is blown and it sounds OK just leave well alone. If you simply must test the speakers take the grill off just this once, check them then put it back and forget. If something goes wrong or you get a horrible noise from your cab then you can go back and start checking.

By the way, I sincerely hope you aren't sticking an unprotected ear up to a speaker (or worse 8 of them in turn) and trying to hear them with any kind of moderate volume going through them? Never mind a blown speaker... a blown eardrum can't be replaced!
 
#9
wow i was in a HUGE hurry to make this thread and did not proof-read ... misspelled thread name .. ouch


my name spelling is an inside joke with someone btw

I think i'm going to take the grill off to check and get to the botom of this for sure. i'm tired of being like OCD about this issue.
 
#10
Emergancy Exit said:
ok i have the Ampeg 8x10e and i frequently put my ears to each of the speakers to be sure all of the speakers work.

does anyone else do this? is there a better way to check? (without pulling grill off of cab) because i know it is probable that i can have my ear up to the speaker but i could be hearing the three speakers around the one i have me ear up to.
Click to expand...

I asked Jeff Genzler this exact question. He told me to take a tube and put it up to my ear. Then take the other end and point it at each speaker. By doing this, it isolates the sound of each of the speakers and allows you to hear only one at a time. :D

Thanks, Jeff. :smug:
 
#11
Take grill off....and check speakers...Aren't the Ampeg 810 all sealed 10's. If so, if your playing and their moving...then they are probably working. When all speakers are in the same area...then its harder to know due to the air moving them.
 

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