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Mystery with woofers. Help!

I am the proud second owner of three-way, sealed design, YG Hailey 1.2’s, and have enjoyed them immensely. They make plenty of articulate bass, provided that the recording is up to snuff. The bass is supplemented by one Rythmik sub, crossing over at 50hz.

Over time, I have noticed almost zero excursion/movement from the woofers so last night I decided to get down and put my ear/hand up to the woofers and it seems like NOTHING is coming out of them, even at pretty high playback levels. Again, my curiosity was not piqued by a lack of bass during listening, but rather, the lack of any visible movement from the woofers. Am I missing something? Fwiw, I am feeding the YG’s with Pass X260.8 monos, connected to the upper speaker terminals. Thoughts?

willyht
elliottbnewcombjr
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woofers are the easiest to see/feel movement. they are not working. both sides? unlikely driver failure if both sides, so why?

to allow bi-wire you have OEM straps between the woofer and upper drivers terminals, normally connected for full range use. are they in place? using a sub, they might be removed

lower/raise the sub’s crossover, anything?

fully disconnect the sub, any change?

typically you are supposed to go in the sub and back out of the sub to your amp without the low bass the sub is doing? IOW, no signal is getting to the woofer

what specific model sub do you have?

can you get to the woofer’s terminals? have a meter? touch wires to any other small portable speaker you have, see if you can see/feel/hear anything.

to prove they are ok, remove sub, put straps in place, hook up speakers, woofers working?

a cd with specific frequency test tones will make it easier to diagnose problems when they occur.

an historic low price of this which has 29 1/3 octave tracks

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bache
525 posts
 

Check impedance for both speakers left and right using multimeter . must be same. if nor remove the woofer from Loudspeakers and check impedance the  woofer alone and you see the issues 

willyht OP
61 posts
 

I think the answer is simple---I need jumpers!!! The woofer section isn't powered up! Duh. I feel like an arse, but the question remains---why does the bass sound adequate without the woofers powered up and sub disengaged?

erik_squires
16,186 posts
 

Room.  The room gain can do a lot. 

And woofers stop working for all sorts of reasons.  Shipping can disconnect a wire or (my fave) break an inductor's connection right at the circuit board. 

Of course, next time you have this problem grab a 9V battery to see what is and is not moving. :)

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