Yes. Contact Adam. Can you say more?Hello, I have a pair of Adam T5V and suddenly one tweeter started being hot while being plugged in. Should I be worried ?
Hello, I have a pair of Adam T5V and suddenly one tweeter started being hot while being plugged in. Should I be worried ?
My speakers are connected to a Scarlett 2i2 via balanced connection. To be more specific, if you look up pictures on the internet of the speakers, the three lines of the tweeter are the ones which are getting hot to the touch and the "cone" or "walls" of the tweeter are just warm.Yes. Contact Adam. Can you say more?
Could you please post a picture so we avoid confusion about what exactly is getting hot?My speakers are connected to a Scarlett 2i2 via balanced connection. To be more specific, if you look up pictures on the internet of the speakers, the three lines of the tweeter are the ones which are getting hot to the touch and the "cone" or "walls" of the tweeter are just warm.
I will try this and come back with feedback. What do you mean by electronics ? The dac or the speaker's electronics ?When the speaker is switched on and not connected to anything other than mains is the tweeter still getting hot ?
If so (and it is on one speaker only) electronics have failed.
When it stays cold I would look at the audio chain before blaming the speaker.
Could you please post a picture so we avoid confusion about what exactly gets hot?
4) "The three lines of the tweeter" do you mean wires inside the box or the tweeter faceplate (behind the "waveguide")?if you look up pictures on the internet of the speakers, the three lines of the tweeter are the ones which are getting hot to the touch and the "cone" or "walls" of the tweeter are just warm.
I am guessing the tweeter wouldn't last very long at all with DC on the "voicecoil" (or whatever the equivalent electrically conductive bit in an AMT is), though.DC to the tweeter maybe? Otherwise, if it was high frequencies you'd have no eardrums left.
Could be the unfiltered switching pulses. In any event, it's quite broken and needs repair.OK, could be heterodyne (beating) or mixing, I s'pose, if there were ultrasonic oscillation (i.e., if the amplifier has failed to work properly). Do these loudspeakers use class D (pulse-width modulation) amplification?
Yes. I am not that familiar with the correct terms.Much confusion here (or maybe it is just me), perhaps language-related?
1) So, this seems to be the culprit (random internet image)?
Yes.2) I assume that the tweeter only gets hot when the speaker is plugged in to AC mains and turned on?
Is this assumption correct?
I hope you understood from my drawing.4) "The three lines of the tweeter" do you mean wires inside the box or the tweeter faceplate (behind the "waveguide")?
I am now guessing the latter(?).
EDIT: Yup, apparently just the faceplate of the tweeter.
Sounds like not a good thing to me.
No unfortunately.5) So... hot... to me, hot is probably circa 50 degrees C (or, of course more). Do you have an IR thermometer, @mateematy ?
I will try this and come back with feedback. What do you mean by electronics ? The dac or the speaker's electronics ?