Yep, that's right I've got one of 4 speakers with an issue. Many of you reading this likely saw my post about collecting 2 sets of these in under 2 weeks recently, and my honeymoon phase. I noticed a couple days ago, that some distortion was present in the left channel. It sounded like a tube was going bad in my phono pre, and I was busy playing with set up and a building new stands for my OLA stack. Last night I swapped tubes in my phono pre, and no change. Then I pulled the phono pre completely, and ran off the phono stage in my Yamaha C-85, resulting in no change. Still the same distortion. So I thought maybe the step up transformer I just added was the problem. I removed that and there was no change, still distortion. So I thought maybe something happen to my amp, or I had a bad cable. I swapped the right and left RCA'a on the amp and the distortion stayed on the left. I was able to isolate it to the bottom set, and it was the left speaker only.
The problem is distortion while the music is playing. I can still hear sound from that woofer, but it also has a distorted sound.
The guy who I bought them from replaced the surrounds. Do you think he got it off center and the voice coil is rubbing? I don't know what a rubbing voice coil sounds like under power. Is it a cross over issue? What's a fair price for a used masonite driver? I'm temped to buy a used driver if I can find one for a fair price, and swap it out. Let me know what you think.
As for re-capping, I don't want to open a can of worms, but should I recap and re-resistor these guys? Is there a cap that will improve the sound quality? I've read that paper in oil makes a big difference. Anyone care to share their recapping experience?
Onebean
The problem is distortion while the music is playing. I can still hear sound from that woofer, but it also has a distorted sound.
The guy who I bought them from replaced the surrounds. Do you think he got it off center and the voice coil is rubbing? I don't know what a rubbing voice coil sounds like under power. Is it a cross over issue? What's a fair price for a used masonite driver? I'm temped to buy a used driver if I can find one for a fair price, and swap it out. Let me know what you think.
As for re-capping, I don't want to open a can of worms, but should I recap and re-resistor these guys? Is there a cap that will improve the sound quality? I've read that paper in oil makes a big difference. Anyone care to share their recapping experience?
Onebean