@tribze- Don’t get confused. If the speaker is open, you won’t have any reading(or beep), at all, on any ohmmeter. That’s the same as not touching your probes to anything. Most drivers have their nominal impedance, marked on the magnet structure. If there’s continuity, with a good driver, your reading should be close to that figure. If it’s substantially lower(and beeping, if you meter’s so equipped), the voice-coil’s probably burnt and shorted. Given you’re not getting any sound at all, that’s probably not the case. Generally speaking, if the enameling of the voice-coil wire is burnt, without opening up completely, the driver will make some terrible rattling noises(when trying to play music, that is).
Blown speaker or crossover opinion
I overdrove a classe ca-101 to the point of tripping the rail fuses in my classe amp. I had the system maxed out with my setup and left the room the next track came on the cd player which was of higher quality and loudness and pushed things to high before I could hit stop. Ignored this problem for two years not playing this stereo.
decided to look into repairs a couple of weeks ago and realize vooth classe componets and energy speakers are on the verge of being out of business.Yet I love the sound of this setup. I got the schemetics on the classe ca=101 and realized the internal railfuses were blown got the fuses to replace them and now both classe ca-101 amps are fine tried with lesser speakers. my classe cp-35 preamp is also fine hooked to a old adcom 5503 from my home theater setup. However the energy Rc-70 mid woofers do not move at all . This speaker has a treble a midrange
and two bass woofers with the top bass woofer being connected to the midrange to smooth out the bass .
All speackers work well excep the mids Yet when I put my hands to the cones they feel perfect, Just like all the othe lower bass drives Could this be a crossover problem or blown woofer
Thanks in Advance Tribze
decided to look into repairs a couple of weeks ago and realize vooth classe componets and energy speakers are on the verge of being out of business.Yet I love the sound of this setup. I got the schemetics on the classe ca=101 and realized the internal railfuses were blown got the fuses to replace them and now both classe ca-101 amps are fine tried with lesser speakers. my classe cp-35 preamp is also fine hooked to a old adcom 5503 from my home theater setup. However the energy Rc-70 mid woofers do not move at all . This speaker has a treble a midrange
and two bass woofers with the top bass woofer being connected to the midrange to smooth out the bass .
All speackers work well excep the mids Yet when I put my hands to the cones they feel perfect, Just like all the othe lower bass drives Could this be a crossover problem or blown woofer
Thanks in Advance Tribze
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