Noise inside speaker cabinet when moving ?


I recently acquired a pair of LSA 1 Statement speakers at a fair enough price on an audio mart website. We struck the deal , the speakers were shipped to me . I received them and began the process of removing them from the shipping box. Only to see they were put in there upside down , which was a bit odd and unusual to say the least. While in the process of turning both of the speakers right side up , I noticed that each one had a distinctive mechanical movement noise in doing so. Hooked up both speakers to my audio rig stack and they seem to play quite well. Nothing I can hear that might suggest internal damage or broken parts etc inside the speaker cabinet. What could be causing this noise ?. I initially thought , though not an expert on speaker construction by any means, it could be some part of the internal parts righting itself after being turned upside down like that by the seller. Is this a common occurrence for some bookshelf speakers to any degree. Or even speakers in general. Again the speakers sound and work quite fine. It would be one thing if just a single speaker had this issue , if we can call it that, but both of them.

Any ideas as to what could have caused this noise when turning them right side up?

sagur80

@corelli Wow, that's a surprise. My repair man did not say anything about a counterfeit. Or he might not have noticed. But to be honest, the Chinese are making gear these days that surpasses lots of boutique stuff made here in the states. So, if mine are counterfeit, bless them for doing a great job, because my VR-1's sound fabulous.

It’s amazing what you can do with a small glue gun! Pull out the woofer and see what is loose.  If you can put the piece back where it belongs, great.  If not, remove it and look to see what’s loose, ie the crossover. If nothing is really loose, a squirt of  hot glue and put it all back together.  
BTW,  woofer screws can also come loose.

All the best.

 

@sagur80 

Of course be careful of screwdrivers and other metal objects being pulled in by the speaker magnets when working near the cone.

 

 

I had a very subtle ’zzz’ out of one speaker. Woofers shot out of the bottom (enclosure on 8" high legs), and a staple holding the insulation had fallen out onto the back of the woofer’s cone, and was ’zzzzing’

Meaning, forget my ’you don’t have to fix it’ that was bad advice. Problem: find and solve it.