I recently got a used peavey PA system but one of the speakers is messed up

[Weird Musician]

One of the speakers is distorts if you turn up the volume past 1 or 2 while the other speaker is perfectly clean, I'm not a gear-a-phile could someone explain to me maybe what would be the problem and how to fix it? Thanks.

 

[Matt303]

Sounds like it needs a re-cone, see a Peavey dealer.

 

[Fangar]

One of the speakers is distorts if you turn up the volume past 1 or 2 while the other speaker is perfectly clean, I'm not a gear-a-phile could someone explain to me maybe what would be the problem and how to fix it? Thanks.

It's Blowded Up!

Fangar

 

[mrbigputts]

well that was easy..........next.

 

[Even]

footnote: if its only a tiny tear in the paper cone you can "glue" it with nail polish as a temporary fix until you replace it all together

 

[Weird Musician]

well I looked at the cones and they don't look ripped or any thing

they look the same as the other speaker that sounds fine
so I don't understand what is messed up with it?

 

[Badger]

Could be a lot of things. Describe the beast a little better...What model is this thing, SP1,2,3 ??? Is it one of those 15 and a horn combos or are there more or less speaks in the cabs. It could be a blowed up crossover, a loose wire, evil spirits....more info man.....

 

[jimistone]

if your speakers are either scorpians or black widows you can recone it yourself.

look on the back of the speaker magnet, if there are allen bolts holding the magnet in place you can loosen them and remove the magnet....pop out the old cone...pop the new one in and your ready to rock.

great speaker design by peavey, a cone is a hell of alot cheaper than a new speaker...or having a professional re-cone a traditional type speaker for you.

 

[Fangar]

Re: well I looked at the cones and they don't look ripped or any thing

they look the same as the other speaker that sounds fine
so I don't understand what is messed up with it?

The cone is not the paper thing that you can see on the face of the speaker, it is inside of the speaker between the magnet and paper thangy....

Fangar

 

[Lt. Bob]

Re: Re: well I looked at the cones and they don't look ripped or any thing

The cone is not the paper thing that you can see on the face of the speaker, it is inside of the speaker between the magnet and paper thangy....

Fangar

Nope....that's the voice coil.

 

[battleminnow]

The SP series and Black Widow stuff is easy to work on. I re-diaphrgmed (sp) my horns a couple of times (they are pretty sensitive.) It does sound like the cone.

Pete

 

[Treeline]

Ditto Peavey

My local music guy (Kevin at www.guitarsam.com ) uses peavey for his rentals for just the reason jimistone and battleminnow mentioned - they are built to service easily. Nice engineering when you can fix it.




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Now if only my house boiler were like that. I have the Peugeot of house furnaces. High performance, very wierd and hopelessly overengineered. Expensive as hell to fix.