Recordings damage car speakers

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bouldersoundguy said:
That depends. If you way overpower the speaker you can pop it instantly with a low frequency transient, as I did with the one in the photo above. If the amps are about right for the speaker then you'll have to run it into clip for a while to overheat the voice coil, and that would sound bad.
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But the op said his speakers were still working, so we can assume that that didn't happen.
 
Farview said:
But the op said his speakers were still working, so we can assume that that didn't happen.
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Probably didn't happen like that, but you could have instantaneous damage that left the speakers partially working, like a torn cone or a warped and rubbing voice coil. It's really hard to diagnose these things remotely.
 
regardless of ANY of this, the OP surmised that it was excessive reverb that damaged the speaker and then presented a recording with almost no energy on the side that he panned all the 'verb to as an example.
There is NO way, nada .... zip ..... zilch ..... zero ..... any other example of nothing you want to add that excessive reverb killed the speaker.
 
Lt. Bob said:
regardless of ANY of this, the OP surmised that it was excessive reverb that damaged the speaker and then presented a recording with almost no energy on the side that he panned all the 'verb to as an example.
There is NO way, nada .... zip ..... zilch ..... zero ..... any other example of nothing you want to add that excessive reverb killed the speaker.
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I posted that recording as an example of a new song that I have been playing in a different car. I rarely use this car and the speakers have started rattling/crackling. I was very surprised because the recording was only acoustic gtr and a little bit of reverb, so I posted that song because that was the one I had been listening to. I have older recordings that are poorly mixed with very heavy bass that made the dashboard sound like it is going to explode. I also have older recordings that have reverb on every track and on the master track. I realized this was a mistake because, when played on regular speakers, they sounded horribly muffled. They didnt sound that muffled, to the untrained ear, on the monitors. These initial recordings, from when I knew even less than I know now, are the ones I thought had been damaging the original car.

I am now wondering if the speakers are rattling because they are loose and may have become loose because of my recordings(?). I dont know. I do know that even on the house speakers the boomy part of the strummed acoustic guitar makes one of the speakers shake and that, in the car, the speakers rattle more for my songs than for professional recordings.
 
you have been given the answer over and freakin' over in this thread ...... excessive lows ..... dunno why you can not comprehend that.
 
You know what also damages car speakers? Floods.

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jimmys69 said:
I hear ya there man. How you dealing?
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We are really lucky. The wall of water that came down Linden flooded several ground and garden level apartments and the carport. It may have been the same incident that killed a couple (one confirmed, one missing) driving in the area. Our ground level apartment is okay. I'm nervous about the studio (the one you saw) down Broadway and my storage out in Frederick. My partner who runs that studio lives in Lyons which is currently being evacuated by the National Guard.

A National Guard helicopter just went over my house toward the municipal airport, first aircraft I've seen or heard in a couple of days. I'm right under the approach path for the airport so I'm used to hearing small planes passing overhead.

How about down where you are?
 
Yeah, this rain thing is out of control.

I have been lucky so far. Only a bit of water in my basement/adjacent to where my gear is. I'm only like 15 miles from you, and have had half the rain. Of course you have a big river near you. Well, it is now anyway.

Wishing the best to you man.
 
Lt. Bob said:
you have been given the answer over and freakin' over in this thread ...... excessive lows ..... dunno why you can not comprehend that.
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I didnt realize a consensus had been reached regarding 'excessive lows'. The idea I was getting was that recordings could never damage speakers. I wish I could comprehend better too. Still don't know how much credence I should be giving to someone from America's wang though.

Miroslav: Does my strumming bore you?
 
simulation said:
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I didnt realize a consensus had been reached regarding 'excessive lows'. The idea I was getting was that recordings could never damage speakers. I wish I could comprehend better too. Still don't know how much credence I should be giving to someone from America's wang though.

Miroslav: Does my strumming bore you?
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The recording really damage the speakers, you do by playing it back too loud. The only legitimate reason you would be playing it that loud without realizing what is going on is if there is too much really low stuff that the system can't reproduce, so you aren't hearing it.

I still say, in this sort of circumstance, the system would have to be painfully distorted and crap sounding long before it broke the speakers. So, we are back to it being your fault for cracking it up and leaving it that loud for that long, even though the stereo was crying for mercy.
 
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