Blown subs

[youngin2nr]

Blown subs. are they possible to fix? Is it worth it? I have a 12" Audiobahn sub that I blew about a week after i bought it. That pisses me off. Being i spent quitea bit of money on the sub+box+installation. I wasnt overpowering the sub at all. Being I only had a 300w amp running it.

Some help please.
Thanks, Nick R.

[Guest]

any warrenty? if so, send it back!

[Joel]

Being as they are audiobahn u probably bought them off some guy on ebay, they are probably shitty remans, you will never get them warrantied... no idea how they are to fix, but audiobahn stuff is iffy now a days...

[hondo04]

Not enough power can be worse than over powering. Just keep that in mind

[StangerBanger96]

Yeah underpowering is worse than overpowering from what i've heard.

[94NDTA]

Go to Partsexpress.co and look for the sub repair kit. Might work, depending on what you destroyed on your sub.

[weshole]

If you fried your voice coil (it doesnt do anything), you will not be able to fix that. Only a select few competiton subs have replaceable voice coils and are expensive to begin with.

[Guest]

StangerBanger96 wrote:
Yeah underpowering is worse than overpowering from what i've heard.

ENTIRELY FALSE! Using too small of an amp and then CRANKING the gains will cause the coil to fry, however if merely underpowering a sub would cause it to blow, you would be blowing your subs left and right every time you didn't have your system going full bore.

And no, odds are you cannot get it fixed (well, maybe you can, call audiobahn and talk to them....if the price is high talk to me)

Audiobahn is very iffy right now. I can hook you up on a killer deal on some subs that will own those audiobahns.

[99blazed]

i would have brought it back that is bull shit

[torbs]

It's distortion that kills subs...not underpowering/overpowering (overpowering to a certain extent can...dont put 1000wrms to a sub thats made for 200wrms)

[Burthwick]

had the same problem till I bought 2thousand watt amp with 2 12phoenix gold which r 1500 a piece. not bad for subs, expensive as hell but worth it, but thats jus my opinion

[Sweet-WRX-Lovin]

torbs wrote:
It's distortion that kills subs...not underpowering/overpowering (overpowering to a certain extent can...dont put 1000wrms to a sub thats made for 200wrms)

If by distortion you mean clipping an amplifier which is what Chuck was describing by having too small of an amp with the gain cranked. Clipping occurs when an amplifier is asked to deliver more current to a speaker than the amp is capable of doing. When an amplifier clips, it literally cuts off the tops and bottoms of the musical waveforms that it's trying to reproduce, thus the term. This introduces a huge amount of distortion into the output signal. Clipping can be heard as a crunching sound on musical peaks.-(ripped off the internet) Clipping = Bad

[Joel]

just buy the right shit, and don't worry about it blowing up?!?

[Guest]

buying the right stuff is only 20% of the process...installing it properly and adjusting gains correctly is the other 80%

[4doorsslow]

just turn it up till you smell the coil a little bit and then back it off a notch lol

noo dont do that or if you do be ready for fun stuff