6.5 comps, distortion

Post by **GlassWolf** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:20 pm

heh the Orion XTR-1 tweeters I used in the festiva (the 4 softdomes) were made by peerless, and the wire between the terminals and the coils were literally thin as a hair. I used to fry those dumb things and replace the coils almost monthly.
I got tired of that, even with each pair of 8 ohm tweeters in series.

headknocker · Post by **headknocker** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:25 am

Mithrandir wrote:well the tweeter must be damaged, i faded it to the passenger side you hear the noise, i faded it to the drivers, no noise. I called the shop they are gonna check it out wednesday, what should i do?

Not necessarily. I started getting some distortion in my driver's side comp set(Aura MR6.1's) around 3-4 months ago. I initially thought it was the tweeter since the distortion seemed to go away when I placed my hand over it. I replaced it with a brand new Aura MR1 tweet and the distortion was still here.

I then flip-flopped the driver's and passenger's side mids to see if that solved the problem. The passenger's side still sounded perfect but the distortion still remained on the driver's side. I even replaced the comps' crossover but that didn't help either. The distortion seems to be frequency specific as acoustic guitar sounds as great as always.

There was a recall on the ignition switch on my '98 CRV and I had it replaced in late September. I'm wondering if the tech's at the dealership damaged the amp in some way since I know they didn't disconnect the battery when they performed the procedure. I know this since my Kenwood eXcelon KDC-X589 HU never displayed the security code screen afterwards. I should add that my left rear speaker(an Aura MR62 Integrated comp) sounds like it's blown.

Could the left side of the amp be defective? It's been fine for three years.

I'm gonna connect my other amp to the speakers to see if the problem goes away. I'm not sure if it's the amp, the interconnects, or the HU.

Mithrandir · Post by **Mithrandir** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:20 pm

i tried somthing like that today, if i switch the rcas, left to right on the amp and visa versa shouldnt the channels be switched? I wanted to see if the amp had a bad channel.

Its either damaged tweeter
Amp has one bad channel

I cant think of any other way to check for a bad channel. What else can I do to narrow it down, oh if i turn up the volume enough the noise gets drowned out somtimess.