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blown tweeter

PaulyT

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Fuck FUCK FUCK! I discovered tonight that I have a blown tweeter in one of my "Flint MTM" speakers in my main HT. Dammit! I have no idea how it happened. I just fired up the system tonight, felt that something was a bit off in the apparent imaging/balance, and went to investigate more closely and found no sound coming from that tweeter. Swapped speakers left-right, to make sure it wasn't the wires or amp or crossover, but the other speaker works fine in the same location, and the broken one displays the same symptoms on the other side. Lastly, an AAA battery touched to the speaker terminals for the tweeter makes no sound.

This sucks. Fortunately, Flint passed along some replacement tweeters when I got the system from him, but it's still a bit of a pain in the ass to have to rip apart the whole thing to replace it. Ugh.

:angry-banghead: :angry-cussingblack: :angry-banghead: :angry-cussingblack: :angry-banghead: :angry-cussingblack: :angry-banghead: :angry-cussingblack: :angry-banghead: :angry-cussingblack:
 
C'mon man, that sounds like fun! Isn't that what part of this hobby is about? At least you have the spare part ready to install!
 
AndySTL said:
C'mon man, that sounds like fun! Isn't that what part of this hobby is about? At least you have the spare part ready to install!
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Agreed!

It's not like you DON'T have a spare and they're no longer made thereby forcing you to replace them all. I say, grab a screwdriver, a beer and enjoy the tinkering.
 
I know, I know, I can fix it. But I reserve the right to bitch about it still. :snooty: This whole week has been one thing going wrong after another... I think I'll drink bourbon (or beer, they're both good) and play video games all day.
 
Can you post a pick of the speaker? I'm surprised that Flint didn't design it for quick driver swap-out. Even with two solder points I can do a NASCAR-like swap of a tweeter in five minutes or less.

Suggestion once the job's done: take the whole system to the end of your neighbour's drive and blast Joe Banana from it while waiting for the bus. :)

Jeff
 
Man, I didn't what had happened when I started reading this thread. I just had a flashback to the opening scene of Four Weddings and a Funeral. Anyway, sorry to hear about the problem, and yes I appreciate your right to bitch about it. Enjoy a nice glass of bourbon and take your time.

John
 
Jeff, the main issue is that these speakers have a felt pad around the tweeter which I have to un-glue in order to take out the tweeter. Otherwise yeah, it's not a huge deal. I have pictures on here somewhere... forget which thread it is...
 
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Born in East L.A.

"You haven't lived 'til you've had your woofers blown."

~ Cheech Marin . . . to the chick with the long sexy legs
 
I think Madisound and/or Zalytron still have a repair service or kit for those. After you replace the blown one, get it fixed.
 
Ok, tweeter replaced, system re-tuned, all is sounding good. Boy am I thankful now for Flint's obsessive tendencies! :eek:bscene-drinkingcheers:
 
One of the reasons I never started my own speaker company was support. I seriously considered opening up shop before I joined the corporate world and actually sold dozens of custom speaker systems and audio installs to rich people in southern NM and west Texas before I decided to pursue a traditional career (I had to get out of music to save my former marriage and raise my son).

What stopped me from pursuing that business was the investment and commitment I foresaw in supporting customers. My expectation is that if a company sells you an expensive loudspeaker, you should expect to be able to get repairs for at least a decade, if not longer. That means that for every system you sell, you need to keep some spare parts around for 10 years, or longer. I believed that to be the kind of business I wanted to be I needed to purchase or lease a climate controlled spares warehouse, manage and maintain an inventory of spare parts, and be prepared to deliver those parts in a timely fashion when necessary. The concern wasn't so much the cost in dollars, but the cost in man hours. I fully believed that in order to it properly, I needed to hire someone to manage that portion of the business within a few months of shipping systems to deal with DOD and accidental damage caused by users and installers. I wasn't ready for that level of investment in any business venture.

My wannabe partner at the time didn't think like me. His attitude was that having to hire people to support customers was only necessary after we sold so many units that our profits would cover the cost. I disagreed and didn't want our pilot customers to have poor experiences with support so I wanted to hire in advance. There were many other differences of opinion about how to run a business between my partner and me, so I called it all off, bought him out of his portion of the PA rental and design company we jointly owned and the audio consulting company we owned so I got all the rights to everything and we parted ways and I moved to Austin and got a job at Dell. I didn't want my name associated with him and the way he did business, so I accepted the buyout as a loss investment to ensure my reputation remained clean in case I wanted to get into that business again in the future.

That's why I always buy spares when I build anything - speakers, amps, preamps, or anything.
 
Just wondering Paul, you didn't blame the little Angles.......right ?
 
Barney said:
Just wondering Paul, you didn't blame the little Angles.......right ?
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No it was the large ones that caused the problems. I think he said they were being obtuse.
 
No, there was no sign of physical external damage. I am glad though that Flint has chosen soft dome drivers, because I have had the dust caps on both woofers and dome on one tweeter poked in once or twice when the kids were younger... but that was a while ago, and there was never any adverse effect to the sound either by ear or RTA, after I carefully popped them back out with some scotch tape.

Huey - boo hiss. :laughing:
 
Happy all is well for tomorrows snow day. More music and movies.

Don't go crazy with the little ladies trapped in the house.
 
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