Peavey TVX 4x10 dead in the water...yes I searched.

What head were you driving it with?

 

You are down to pulling all the drivers and testing them one at a time (straight to the speaker connection terminals. You may have to cut up some cable to make a test cable). Don’t just meter them, drive some music through them and see if they work at all and if so, if you hear any dragging or scraping sounds.

This is quick and dirty home testing. Using sine wave tones would be better, but explaining that gets involved. See if the drivers work at all one at a time first.

 

You are narrowing down where the failure is. Eliminate the drivers, then look at the crossover and connectors.

If the speaker are wired in series for whatever reason (to achieve a certain impedance), then one speaker that's developed an open circuit (like a break in the coil winding somewhere), then yes, all the speakers won't work. Most cabs that I've come across are wired in a combination of series-parallel. So if a single speaker quit, then only one more speaker wouldn't work.

It would be best if you check the individual speakers and get back to us with your findings. This discussion can go on and on, but we need to get you headed on the road to repair and working again. I, as more than likely others, will follow this thread to try and help.

 

You can test each speaker with a 9 volt battery.

 

Is your TVX a 4 or 8 ohm?

 

Man, cutting out the crossover certainly wasn't the FIRST step to take. Now you have additional repairs to do once you identify and THEN repair your cabinet.

How come you cut your crossover first? Was it something that you read on the internet posted by somebody who had no troubleshooting skills whatsoever yet professed to be an internet expert?

Systematically test each driver, at low volumes, directly to the amp. As GeriO suggested, a test cable will be necessary. Do not short the ends of the test cable together or you will be reading up on how to repair your currently functioning amp also (which is not user repairable).

It's not rocket science, but it's not Neanderthal either.

 

I had 2 TVX 410s and those things sound great. If only they were not so heavy. Good luck with the repair!

 

Yah, someone gave me the one I have - it lives in a rehearsal space, too stoopid heavy to gig . Mine has a blown tweeter, I bypassed the crossover and it sounds great .

 

Yah, kindof a waste of $$$ to replace all the drivers. If you were closer I'd sell you mine cheap cheap cheap LOL.