Can you smell your speakers when youre rockin out?

Very funny! Never heard of speakers smelling.

I received a pair of Focal speakers in September with beryllium tweeters and a notice in the owner’s manual about the dangers of ingesting that metal.

I texted one of my audio buddies to see if I should listen to loud music with these tweeters, he thought I’d be OK doing so, but warned me not to let my dog lick those tweeters!

Back to the smell...could it be that the smell is actually from the dried leaves & buds from a plant which comes from Mexico or Columbia?  Just saying  ;-)

Never heard of this.

The scent I was smelling was the insulation / batting, glue, wood, stain, (new electronics?) etc.

My last setup was in a smaller bedroom, sealed pretty well also.

The smell is of new speakers, like a new magazine, car or home.  The smell goes away after time or after the environments smells take over, just like your new car or new home smell goes away after awhile.

If you have sealed cabs then you probably wont smell what I'm talking about.  I think that the air moving through the cabinet, over and through the insulation and out the port is what I was smelling.

interesting though that no one else has smelled this on this thread.

b_limo, I experienced exactly what you did with a pair of ported speakers I had at one time. One day after letting them settle in for a few days I goosed the volume a bit and got the air flowing through the port and my large 22x20 room filled with the smell of the finish on the speakers. It was very interesting and, honestly, pretty cool. Those ports were certainly getting used.

Cheers,

Scott

So b_limo, what's your new setup like? You need to update that system page.