Never damaged a speaker...

[kyuu]

The preamp was at its minimum (no output) setting but still connected to a live stream from an FM tuner.

Ah, yeah that'll do it. I forget people still use those things.

 

[Salt]

Way back in the day when I worked for a NoVA audio chain there wasn't a week that went by without stores sending in to the shop Advents of both sizes and ESS AMT-1s with blown tweeters. Others for sure, but those were the ones we saw constantly.

The ESS AMT-1 is rated over 100 dB/watt, so would be hard to fry in usual home context: to low crossover frequency of the high pass to cover the roll-off of the bass starting from 1 kHz might cause this?

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Ah, yeah that'll do it. I forget people still use those things.

Still? That event was in the last century.

 

[Ken1951]

The ESS AMT-1 is rated over 100 dB/watt, so would be hard to fry in usual home context: to low crossover frequency of the high pass to cover the roll-off of the bass starting from 1 kHz might cause this?

No idea, just that we saw them just about every week coming back into the shop.

 

[Anton S]

The ESS AMT-1 is rated over 100 dB/watt, so would be hard to fry in usual home context: to low crossover frequency of the high pass to cover the roll-off of the bass starting from 1 kHz might cause this?

Hard clipping by underpowered amps will do that.

 

[Salt]

Hard clipping by underpowered amps will do that.

The hole speaker's sensitivity is rated at 98 dB ... even a tube won't clip at sensible loudness (and 98 dB is still very loud, even at 2 m distance it's over 90 dB).

 

[Anton S]

The hole speaker's sensitivity is rated at 98 dB ... even a tube won't clip at sensible loudness (and 98 dB is still very loud, even at 2 m distance it's over 90 dB).

Ever have kids around your gear? They can't keep their grubby little paws off anything. A quick clockwise twist of the volume knob up to eleven, and you're crying in your Cheerios.

 

[DMill]

Blew a fuse in an integrated amp playing at levels that maybe should’ve fried the speaker once. But nope, not n my 40 years of owning gear.

 

[EJ3]

Still? That event was in the last century.

I still use FM (NAD 4300) & do DXing. (I can't hear above 14 K, anyway)
I have no subscription services (or even a TV since 2007) but do have a computer with WiFi & and a cellphone cellphone (none of this connects to the stereo).
A pair of APT/Holman Pre-Amps are the heart of the system.

 

[EJ3]

Still? That event was in the last century.

I still use FM (NAD 4300) & do DXing. (I can't hear above 14 K, anyway)
I have no subscription services (or even a TV since 2007) but do have a computer with WiFi & and a cellphone cellphone (none of this connects to the stereo).
A pair of APT/Holman Pre-Amps are the heart of the system.

 

[Ktacos]

Never damaged anything myself. I kind of wonder what people are even doing to make it happen. I do a lot of DIY and I've had amps mess up and wires cross that send nasty signals to tweeters and still nothings been damaged.

 

[amper42]

Never damaged anything myself. I kind of wonder what people are even doing to make it happen. I do a lot of DIY and I've had amps mess up and wires cross that send nasty signals to tweeters and still nothings been damaged.

It's pretty easy to do something silly.

I recall someone putting new banana plugs on speaker cable while it was still connected to the amp at the other end. That's not a big deal. But when they used a hair dryer to shrink the plastic wrapping around the wire/plug and a spark came off blow dryer (from being too close), it fried that amp channel. Moral of story - disconnect all speaker wire from amps while working on them.

 

[mhardy6647]

I have a... thing... about FM tuners (mono or MPX stereo).
Never (yet) damaged anything with one, though.

I will note that coupling capacitors between source and amplifier are cheap insurance just in case there's some DC riding on the output of the former.

https://flic.kr/p/RgCfJ2

 

[Dumu]

Never damaged a speaker, but probably saved a bunch as a teenager by lowering the volume when some idiot was blasting music to stupid amounts of distortion. It was quite normal to hear people at partys or at someone's car to just crank up the volume when all it did was add distortion.

 

[Hiten]

I have a... thing... about FM tuners (mono or MPX stereo).
Never (yet) damaged anything with one, though.

I will note that coupling capacitors between source and amplifier are cheap insurance just in case there's some DC riding on the output of the former.

https://flic.kr/p/RgCfJ2

Executive order should be passed, forcing hifi manufacturing companies to revert back to old school aesthetics.

 

[mhardy6647]

Executive order should be passed, forcing hifi manufacturing companies to revert back to old school aesthetics.

In numerous cases, they have.


1966:

source: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/jbl-sa600-vintage-amplifier-review.36952/

2021:

https://www.jbl.com/news-and-reviews/jbl-sa750-integrated-amplifier.html

 

[xanalog]

I have always sang to my speakers to sooth their aggressive disposition pistons.

1966:

Dang impressive memory for your calculated age group!

 

[kemmler3D]

Haven't damaged a speaker myself, but my dad's Adcom amp had a channel go bad and fry the AMT on one of his speakers. There were visible burn marks, or what looked like them.

 

[EJ3]

I have a... thing... about FM tuners (mono or MPX stereo).
Never (yet) damaged anything with one, though.

I will note that coupling capacitors between source and amplifier are cheap insurance just in case there's some DC riding on the output of the former.

https://flic.kr/p/RgCfJ2

Still has the spinner knob but is digital tuning, that is as far as I will go with it (my other tuners are older than this NAD 4300):

Here is a good way to set something off, though:

 

[xanalog]

Here is a good way to set something off, though: