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***?! New speakers popping! (Video)

nonogz

nonogz

May 9, 2009
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#1
I just replaced my 8ohm neo410 speakers a couple weeks ago. I also picked up a used (great condition) wt800a. I've been running it bridged since I got it and it sounds fantastic....until last night. Out of no where I feted this nasty popping and sometimes would get distortion. Out of nowhere! Here's a video clip I just made....it's a LOUD pop



I'm palm muting in the beginning and then just trying to hit loud notes at the end....
 
#4
Sounds to me like you are bouncing the voice coil off the back plate of the magnat structure. Did you replace the drivers with the same units as the original stock ones??

Edit: Although I've been using stereo power amps since the late Seventies i have never felt the need to bridge any of them. Bridging can cause a lot of problems if not done right.
 
#6
It ended up being one of the new speakers....the excursion on one of them was wayyyy more than the other 3. Replaced it with an old speaker....problem solved. GK shipped me a new one yesterday
 
#9
Steve Dallman said:
I'm thinking the spider surround came unglued.
Click to expand...

Could be this....or for whatever reason, that speaker was either blown or came disconnected and was just flopping around in sympathy with the ones that were working.

Any particular reason you replaced all the speakers when the old ones were working? Or did yoj have a couple blown ones and just got a fresh set, keeping a couple spares.

Careful bridging the amp if you're pushing a lot of lowend. Enough power there to blow the new ones too.
 
#12
If you're blowing speakers you're pushing them too hard. The volume difference between coasting along and bleeding edge is minimal. Maybe you like the sound of bleeding edge tens?

A fdeck hpf may help you stop murdering your neos. I'm not familiar with your amp EQ but cutting low lows generally sounds little different as most cabs can't make enough of them to be heard or felt.

From memory your amp is pretty darn powerful, something like 450w from a single channel with 8ohms? That being the case, bridging is simply an express ticket to hell.
 

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