**Had a similar experience a few weeks back. Customer said "smoke came
out of the tweeter". A little bit of questioning and I requested that he
bring the speaker, both (mono) amplifiers, preamp and the pre - power
cable.
"Hopefully, it's just a resistor in the crossover. I read it on the 'net."
Yeah, right.
This is the speaker:
http://elac.ro/FS_607_rev-hifiworld.html
Look at the close-up photo of the tweeter. The ring around the edge is
the midrange driver. The yellowish thinkg in the centre is the ribbon
tweeter (looks more like Heil driver to me). It was smoked. Easy enough
to pull apart (those whacky Krauts make it pretty easy to strip down).
Beauty, I thought. I'll order a new diaphragm, replace it and everyone
will be happy. Cost of diaphragm? I figure $3 Bucks to manufacture.
$50.00, by the time it reaches me.
Nup. I had to buy the whole fucking midrange/tweeter. $746.00 delivered.
The importer claims to have done me a huge favour on the cost. I could
not, in all conscience make a profit on the driver, so I passed it to
the client at cost.
I checked the preamp and power amps. No problems. The interconnects,
OTOH, were some wanky audiophile bullshit. I was able to simulate an O/C
on either earth or active at various times. I presume it was causing
some instability in one of the power amps.
THEN, the customer told me that he had been running the system for many
months with no problems. The fault occurred after he had purchased some
new cables...........
Anyway, I fitted some Polyswitches to both tweeters. Just in case.
Oh yeah, I told him to send the cables back for a refund.
FWIW: The speakers sound fabulous.
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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au
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