Did I blow out my speakers?
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September 10th, 2009
So my dad has a record player, old, beautiful, and it has 2 big old speakers with it. I was putting a record on today and didn’t realize the volume was up so loud and when i hit power and turned it on, it blasted SO LOUD. The speakers crackled and one seemed to not be working so well but the other seemed okay. They always sounded kind of crackly, but I think even more so today. So then I was changing the volume and messing with stuff, and now neither of them will play anything!!
By the way, my dad loves this record player and he is currently out of state. He’ll be back Sunday night and I gotttta get this fixed by then. He uses it all the time.
Can anyone offer advice?
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Can you offer some more information, please? What type of speakers, of what composition, a brand name if you have one…
If no sound is coming out then something is definitely wrong (obviously). But more detail is really needed to be more accurate.
Are you getting anything? A throb or a high crackle?
The crackling may indicate a tear. The fact that the speakers no longer have output may be the result of built-in protection in your amplifier that you may be able to reset.
Even blown speakers make noise, so if you aren’t getting anything at all, it is not the speakers.
You might have blown a fuse. Look in the back for a small cap that might unscrew to reveal a fuse.
If there is no fuse, then you have deeper damage than the speakers; damage that you might not easily fix.
I don’t normally promote honesty. Actually, this might be the first time.
I would just tell your dad what happened. It is probably a simple fix that he knows. If you mess with it you will probably just end up making it worse.
Yep, I’m a Dad, and an audiophile, and I would be sympathetic.
I would actually be kinda stoked that my kid wanted to listen to my old records.
@johnpowell I was thinking my dad should be proud instead of mad since I’m all into records now. Hahah :p
@pdworkin unfortunatly I don’t know any more information than what I put here, I wish I did but I’m not at his house anymore. I should have checked…didn’t even think of it though. All I know is they’re old and big.
@PerryDolia What you said makes me feel better. But sometimes they would play some noise and sometimes not. Is that still sounding unlike a blown speaker? I know nothing about stuff like this.
My advice is to listen to @johnpowell. Not just because honesty is the best policy, but because this is not something you can fix yourself. If this is the kind of rig I think it is, it does not have enough amplifier power to destroy the speakers altogether. Harmonics generated by clipping, when the volume is too high, can damage the driver elements in the tweeters, but you would still hear something. The best outcome would be blown speaker fuses. The worst is damage to the amplifier, and while that can be fixed, it’s a job for a good technician. No user serviceable parts inside. Believe it.
They might be fused..
Or have reset switch or button.
It’s possible that you might have just blown a circuit to the speakers?
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