speaker quality & sound is poor

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Topic: speaker quality & sound is poor

Posted By: ByThaBay
Subject: speaker quality & sound is poor
Date Posted: December 26, 2003 at 5:03 AM

I have two JL audio 5" 2 way speakers in my front doors. for some reason, the driver's side one was really quiet today and the quality of the sound was poor.. i know because I isolated the speaker by using the fader controls. when i turnd the head unit up almost all the way, it was as if something had "kicked-in" and the speaker began operating normaly. I have not been able to duplicate this problem. any ideas?

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Posted By: Durwood
Date Posted: December 26, 2003 at 5:20 AM

I've had something similar to that happen, and it turned out that the wires to the speaker were chafing where they passed from the kick-panel area into the door. Try isolating the speaker with the balance/fader controls like you did before, then open and close the door several times and see if that gives you the "kicking-in" effect. Either way, I'd check the wire bundle for chafing, both where it leaves the kickpanel area, and where it enters the door.

Scott Gardner

Posted By: LAUR
Date Posted: December 27, 2003 at 6:09 PM

you can try to see if one of the wires is destroyed and pushed to the carbody

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