"blown speakers"

Is there a way to test the speaker to see if there is a problem. The reason I ask is that in one of my speakers, when playing very loud, I heard a sudden rasping sound.When I reduced the volume, it sounded ok. It can still play quite loud without the rasping sound, but I dont really want to play it again as loud as it was to see if the sound comes back. IT was really loud, Pink Floyd Dark Side of Moon, Money. Quality amp of 275 watts, playing vinyl.

I would play It but not SOOOOO loud. You might have been clipping the amp. How loud is loud? I play hard rock over 90dbs at times like RUSH with lots of bass with out glipping my amp at all. But I have a Krell FPB 400cx. If you love It LOUD you better have lots of good clean power. Clipping a amp will blow any speaker no matter how good It is. You can never have to much power as long as It's good clean power. LOL

This stuff happens DUDE!!

Hi all ! Sounds like a rubbing voice coil .If you are handy remove the dustcap and manually move the cone in and out . You should see and hear where / what the problem is . Could be off-center ( sometimes fixed by pulling the driver and re-installing upside down ) or debris in the voice coil gap .

If you can move the driver over to the other speaker; pay attention to which wire goes to the proper terminal of the driver to see if the problem moves;if it moves then you have identified the driver as being bad.
If these are a expensive or special driver and is damaged I would talk with Bill Legall of Millersound to get his opinion;he is highly respected in the business and his work is of the highest caliber.

Millersound
1422 Taylor Road
Lansdale, PA 19446-1531
(215) 412-7700