When a speaker does not sound right, how do you know which part is wrong?


I bought Polk LS50 from craigslist for my kids. One speaker produces some static noise and it sounds much weaker than the other.

It has one 1" dome tweeter and two 6 1/2" drivers. How can you test which went wrong? Tweeter, driver, or crossover? Or, something else? Is there a way to tell what went wrong by just listening to the sound?

 

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Showing 1 response by holmz

REW and a UMIK microphone would be an objective way to start.

Sniffing the cross over parts with the nostrils will likely need to happen at some point. But it be a driver.

One could swap the crossover between left and right. If the problem moves sides then it is the passive XO. If it is not moving then it is a driver. And it could be a bit of both.