problem with promedia 2.1 sub

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edit:

i'll just try to explain it a bit better:

Everything was going good, rocken out to some tunage when I decided the time had come to rock harder. As I turned up the volume my sub just suddenly quit working.
My satellites were working but the sub wasn't doing squat. no hum, no nothing! I thought it was dead. I'd seen a bunch of stuff on the internet about caps and resistors going bad but everything looked fine. The problem was actually on the subwoofer speaker itself - the boards and fuses are alright.

I had the power on playing some music messing with the subwoofer connectors to see if I could get any kind of noise out of it. I noticed when I plugged the negative side with the positive already in, I'd get a noise as I was pressing it on - the harder I pressed, the more noise I would get. I figured something was up with the connector on the speaker then.

I took the driver out to get a closer look and noticed the solder job connecting the negative voice coil wire to the tag wasn't done so great - it looked like it had become loose. I pushed the negative side of the tag against the wire and I'd get a really ugly/staticy sound similar to a blown speaker. I got some solder and just put a decent sized glob over it. I still had an ugly static noise under heavy bass and I noticed the cone was actually just hitting the wire when the it was under higher excursion, so I just bent the wire and the tag with my pliers to give it some clearance.

I put everything back together and I had my normal clean sound back.

hope that helps somebody


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I bought some used promedias off of ebay because I needed some speakers for work.

they worked fine for about 2 weeks when just last week while listening I had noticed that my subwoofer suddenly stopped working. I didnt hear it make any noises - it just quit. I've got the amp panel off - not too sure what I'm looking at/for but I don't see any exploded caps.

both of my speakers still work totally fine, it's just the sub

any clue on what could be up?

 

[foxlinked]

something up with the black speaker wire, jiggle it and walla sound!

tho it sounds like i may have blown the speaker =\

anyone know where i can order a replacement?

 

[foxlinked]

nevermind...

the black wire wasnt connecting so well and was also hitting the cone... threw some solder on it and its working totally fine

useless thread i guess

 

[MattyC]

I have read this is a semi-common problem with the promedia speakers from what I have read, it is one of the things that dissuaded me from picking them up long ago. That and the fact that I <3 my Infinitys. Nice that you fixed it. You might want to edit a post with some ref to how you went about it (assuming you didn't just figure it out on your own, which is most likely).