I was just thinking to myself today: "I wonder if I get my home audio speakers to get a little stinky, VC style, like the crazier car stereos Ive experienced" My system gets played very loud pretty regularly (rattling my room and breaking things with Dillinja etc) but for the first time just now I managed go get that lovely toasting VC aroma out of the ports :clown: Burped a 40Hz tone through the cheapy floorstanders at just short of maximum volume, et voila ;)

Aside from that little anecdote, some useful info :D Can/will any permanent damage be imposed on a speaker by making the VCs get hot and smell like that? I probably should have asked this beforehand, but hey :twisted:

Thanks

M:B

you frikkin loon - of course you are damaging them. dont do it again :whatever:

stuff like blades orion etc.. are *kinda* designed for the abuse - your floorstanders are not.

My advie would be to get a decent welding power supply, and short the cables with some thin speaker wire, while playing your home system at high, though not stupidly high level. this way youll get loud music, VC smell, and no damage to your speakers. You'll have to replace the wire on teh welding rig occaisionally when you have melted through the plastic. (which is what you are doing ot your home speakers VC)

HTH

stu

:p

only get that smell with one tune

whicn tune is that

Late night tip

Right thats it.
Ive heard of this song twice now.
Can someone email it to me please?
Or if they have mirc do a direct file transfer???

wats ur email address mate..il try and email u it.....does this song have below 20hz bass in it....

wats ur email address mate..il try and email u it.....does this song have below 20hz bass in it....

jammi@btopenworld.com

TYIA ;)

not sure but its the only tune that nails the voltage in my system, I'm not joking it causes me real problems

if you haven't got it let me know and I'll send it you

remind me and ill burn it onto cd for ya Jammi!

also got a few others to give those 10"s a workout ;)

Hahaha I wont do it again sir stu :D I turned it down after I smelt the smell, so hopefully any damage Ive done was minimised. Either way, the speakers were only £50 so its no great loss to me :)

Thanks for hijacking the thread the rest of ya :p

M:B

:lol: M:B your a nutter not happy with thrashing his car system he has to do it to his home one aswell!! true bass head

Hehe almost mate, I havnt actually got my car system in yet ;) New Years resolution is to past driving test then I get round to installing and therefore mobile bass :D

M:B

sweet i play tonez through my speakers in my room i can get the lights shaking and the blinds rattle ling :lol:

sir stu, i like the sound of that :)

i got my home cinema set up too, but everytime i take it up to high volume my subs starts to fart, perhaps cos i got one ****** amp and that the box is fallin apart but still :) my floor standers are hard to fry, i put 20hz tome through them at max volume and nothin, no over heatin no nothin, just clean bass and no distortion :)

voice coils smell good :)

Andy

thread from the dead, why?

i thought that, van dave posted this ages ago! lol

i got a pair of sony xlopds smoking nicely. did run them at 1400wrms :)

I killed my old Jamo D265s (with horn tweet) by playing the USAC subwoofer excursion test

The other died at T6 :lol:

can you tell andy is bored at home with time off work to work on the panda but the panda is missing? :p

can you tell andy is bored at home with time off work to work on the panda but the panda is missing? :p

spot on :lol:

to add to the topic, kicker coils smell best :D

Andy

I might try and get my floorstanders smelling again :D

My poo smells.

My poo smells.
your obsessed with shït :lol:

my pioneer spl's seemed to smell quite often, cant think why.

The box even when they had gone smelt of VC glue, might cut it up into thin sticks and sell them as incense sticks on e bay.