One of my B & W speakers has a muffled sound and has lost quality and is playing quieter?
September 242009
i have 2 B & W speakers and a amp, they are plugged into my PC. The entire sound system is old but has recently broke the right speaker has a muffled sound and has lost quality and is playing quieter. My dad will be realy annoyed if i can’t fix them. My friend recently took of the fabric front to look at the round things, but that surely couldn’t have broke it as he barely touched it, plz help.
"My friend recently took of the fabric front to look at the round things, but that surely couldn’t have broke it as he barely touched it"
Oh yes it could.
The "round things" that you refer to are the speaker drivers – the bits that actually make the sound. I’m guessing you have bookshelf speakers, so they will have 2 drivers each – one for the low range (a woofer) and one for the high range (a tweeter).
If you damage the tweeter, you will get a muffled sound, because you have lost the high frequencies. It will also make the speaker sound as if it’s quieter.
It sounds like your friend has broken one of the tweeter drivers – they are very, very fragile. The only option is to get a new tweeter (and ask your friend to pay for it…).
September 24th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
This will sound like a dumb answer, but have you tried adjusting the amplifiers balance knob? It could have been knocked out of position.
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Check all the obvious things like loose speaker wires either at the amplifier or the speaker end, balance control turned off center. Check the speaker cones and surrounds for any damage. One way to test if it is the speaker is simply to swap the right and left speakers and hook the suspect speaker up to the other set of wires. Speakers sometimes have a fuse to protect the tweeter from an overload, if this is the case check that as well.
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
"My friend recently took of the fabric front to look at the round things, but that surely couldn’t have broke it as he barely touched it"
Oh yes it could.
The "round things" that you refer to are the speaker drivers – the bits that actually make the sound. I’m guessing you have bookshelf speakers, so they will have 2 drivers each – one for the low range (a woofer) and one for the high range (a tweeter).
If you damage the tweeter, you will get a muffled sound, because you have lost the high frequencies. It will also make the speaker sound as if it’s quieter.
It sounds like your friend has broken one of the tweeter drivers – they are very, very fragile. The only option is to get a new tweeter (and ask your friend to pay for it…).
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