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Omg!! I think I blew my speaker bc I was installing a Cary network dac/streamer and mistakenly set the volume to bypass and it was full throttle on
my plinius 350 watt amp for about 2 seconds-it startled the neighbors-when I figured out what I did I restarted everything and it seems only the tweeter assembly is working and no sound from the two main drivers below the tweeter assembly-Dali epicon 6-the other speaker seems fine-please help?
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At 350 watts maybe you got lucky and blew a capacitor on the crossover board.
Either way you need to open the speaker up and check out the crossover board and drivers with a meter.
Pull the drivers and use a meter. If you don't have one go buy a cheap one at Radio Shack or Home Depot. Set to continuity or resistance. You should get a reading. If it's blow you will get no reading. But then again it should smell burnt and have that coil rub mentioned above.
Next start checking the crossover. But to do that you will have to lift one leg of the capacitors and resistors to check them. Look for discolorations and malformations on the components. Don't worry about the coils.
Here are two easy tests.
1-Pull the drivers and smell the magnets. If they are burnt you'll smell the burnt carbon.
2-A visual clue is if the copper voice coil has a really black looking goo between it and the pole magnet.
The tweeters were harder to check but the smell was a give-away.
I just replaced one of my lower-mid drivers and two tweeters on a set of Triangle Antal ESW's as I cooked them rocking out. My Sim doesn't have enough grunt and I over-drove them like a doofus.
Sounds like you blew them. Put your fingers in a spider fashion, gently push the cone in, if you hear a scraping noise or it refuses to move, you have fried it. Does the crossover network have a fuse? There may be some built in protection in the crossover and would produce a smell. I would expose the crossover, check for burns and smell.
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