Tweeter much quieter on one speaker

bigwill · 19th August 2006, 12:25 PM

I have an old pair of Radford 3-way speakers. Unfortunately, they have gotten a lot of abuse over the years, the worst from when they were used as PA speakers connected to a microphone. One of them still works but the tweeter on one of them is very quiet, but I'm pretty sure it's working. Could it be the crossover that is damaged and not the tweeter? I have not opened them up yet. I would like to repair these because they sound really nice.

sreten · 19th August 2006, 12:54 PM

Hi,

Testing is far more conclusive than conjecture.
Swap the tweeters in the two speakers, soon find out.

/sreten.

SUPERDJ · 25th August 2006, 08:09 AM

Hi! if you want to know if the tweeter work just change it with the other one, if work well mabe is the part of the crossover in fault , to make it faster just disconect one side of the speaker connection and use a voltmeter select resisters range , if you don"t read a value the voice coil is open, but if the impedance you read is the same is print on back speaker magnet say 4,8 ,16 ohms the speaker is good,
i am sorry for my english i am a old 64 man
:ange

19th August 2006, 12:25 PM	#1
bigwill diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UK	Tweeter much quieter on one speaker I have an old pair of Radford 3-way speakers. Unfortunately, they have gotten a lot of abuse over the years, the worst from when they were used as PA speakers connected to a microphone. One of them still works but the tweeter on one of them is very quiet, but I'm pretty sure it's working. Could it be the crossover that is damaged and not the tweeter? I have not opened them up yet. I would like to repair these because they sound really nice.

25th August 2006, 08:09 AM	#3
SUPERDJ diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2006	tweeter trouble Hi! if you want to know if the tweeter work just change it with the other one, if work well mabe is the part of the crossover in fault , to make it faster just disconect one side of the speaker connection and use a voltmeter select resisters range , if you don"t read a value the voice coil is open, but if the impedance you read is the same is print on back speaker magnet say 4,8 ,16 ohms the speaker is good, i am sorry for my english i am a old 64 man :ange __________________ SUPER DJ

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19th August 2006, 12:54 PM	#2
sreten diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Brighton UK	Hi, Testing is far more conclusive than conjecture. Swap the tweeters in the two speakers, soon find out. /sreten.

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