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[Riley Casey]

Pffft thats not a blown driver , THIS is a blown driver - jamming a voice coil in the gap of a JBL 15 so tightly from a combination of burning the coil and jumping the gap that the old coil / former couldn't be extracted and the entire speaker had to be thrown out.

In all my years I've blown maybe 5-6 drivers. I guess you weren't paying too much attention. Shame on you Ivan, my respect-O-meter just dipped 1/2 point.

[Bob Leonard]

I "cut my teeth" doing metal and punk back in the 80's.

I was sending out 4 systems a night, with my guys and other guys operating them.

Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between the "music" and distortion of the loudspeakers.

Of course there were some rap shows that also took out drivers.  It was my introduction into what happens when you use big power and sinewaves into drivers

Also back then drivers were not as robust as today.

If it makes you feel any better-it has been years since I have roasted a driver.

Just busting chops Ivan. Got ya.
 
I think I've seen at least 100 or so blown Jensens though. Do they count as speakers?

[Ivan Beaver]

Just busting chops Ivan. Got ya.
 
I think I've seen at least 100 or so blown Jensens though. Do they count as speakers?

Guitar speakers would be more a "voicer"-----------

[Matthew Knischewsky]

Those photo's aren't much of a surprise to me.

We had a run where VRX 932 LF drivers were coming back blown up. In every instance it was not enough rig for the gig. The boxes are rated for quite a bit of power but they don't get that loud. The damage seemed to mostly occur when deployed as singles. Our boxes are passive and this would make sense as the system is at it's least sensitive and the amps make the most power per driver.

[Jason Lavoie]

Those photo's aren't much of a surprise to me.

We had a run where VRX 932 LF drivers were coming back blown up. In every instance it was not enough rig for the gig. The boxes are rated for quite a bit of power but they don't get that loud. The damage seemed to mostly occur when deployed as singles.

That was my thought when I saw the picture. the LF probably isn't designed to keep up with the HF since they expect you to use at least 2 together.

Jason

[Jay Barracato]

Don't drink the kool aid

Don't smoke the jbl's

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