Black widow?? Distorted

[Zigman]

So i have this problem, my 15 inch black widow is destorting, but not all the time and mainly at low volume. I pulled it apart every thing looks good?? Is this what they do befor they give up completely ?

 

[T_Bone_TL]

Even though the primary problem in this thread turned out to be something different, there were good speaker/coil gap cleaning suggestions in it - if, indeed, your problem is really with the speaker. Is it in a combo, or can you plug your amp into a different speaker, and a different amp into this speaker, just to check...?

Older Peavey TKO 115 - Scratchy speaker noise???

 

[Zigman]

My setup is peavey mark vi head with peavey 115 cab. I plugged my head into a mesa 215 cab sounded sweet, like i said i took the magnet off cleaned the gap, it was clean and shiney, voice coil looks good , cone is not ripped im stumped? Any helpful advice

 

[Downunderwonder]

Dustcap coming away?

Surround rotting out?

I presume you tested it after the cleaning? Sometimes foreign matter gets in a port and catches between the cone and the basket, rattling on the cone.

 

[Zigman]

Nó every thing looks réal good. Yes í did test it and at first it destorted bad, and then subsided as i played, and now its thére sometimes, is it time fór a new basket?