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Old 11-21-2007, 02:42 AM   #31
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Re: What makes speakers scratchy when music's loud???

I am not sure if this could help someone, but recently I was having issues with the left 5 1/4 two-way speaker on the dash on my van. It would have a scratchy sound, like if the tweeter was dying. I then inspected the speaker and found that one wire that goes from the woofer to the tweeter was not soldered 100%. The wire seems to be made of an elastic type of ribbon wire. So I grabbed my solder gun and soldered the wire to the tweeter. Now it doesn't have that scratchy sound anymore.

I think the scratchy sound I was hearing is while the woofer was moving, it would cause the tweeter's loose wire to intermit on/off. Hopefully this helps.
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Old 11-21-2007, 05:50 PM   #32
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Re: What makes speakers scratchy when music's loud???

the wire from the speaker frame to the cone is made of braided wire to make it flexible. You'r lucky you didn't burn the voice coil when you soldered the wire
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Old 11-21-2007, 09:10 PM   #33
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Re: What makes speakers scratchy when music's loud???

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the wire from the speaker frame to the cone is made of braided wire to make it flexible. You'r lucky you didn't burn the voice coil when you soldered the wire
I guess I was lucky. I do have experience soldering delicate equipment. So I was careful to not use more than 20 watts to solder the piece together. It really didn't need that much heat. Nor did I need to keep the solder gun tip too long on the connector. It was such a simply process, and now the tweeter doesn't rasp as the woofer moves.
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Re: What makes speakers scratchy when music's loud???

it depends wat u got and it depends on wat kind of amp u got i got 2 15 and a 500 watt amp it beat like crazy
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Hmm, conversation died on this thread a few years back.
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