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: what makes speakers do this?


3hitsaday
02-16-2004, 10:24 PM
i started out in my E thinking that 3 black boxes on my volume level was enough, then realized that 4 was my LOUD setting and was happy w/ that.

3 for quiet city driving w/ not much wind noise, 4 for the interstate.

not I'm up into the 5s w/ the same discs that i was playing on 3 or 4 before.

i realize some CDs are at different volumes than others and adjustments have to be made. But w/ my factory Honda Civic speakers i had before my E i found the need to keep increasing the volume until my car's end.

so what makes speakers do this? W/ my new CDTs having less "efficiency" as i am expecting due to other posts about it, im afraid that i might max out my volume in no time. (not really but you get what i mean).

am i damaging my speakers?

ANOTHER question.... on some of my trips around the middle half of a disc i hear this nasty light scratching sound that comes from the speakers. It sounds like the disc spinning in the receiver, because the sound comes around full circle every 3 or so seconds, but the sound usually stays somewhat the same.

i listen to mainly trance/techno w/ thumping bass and could possibly have done irreversible damage to my speakers. I have had the bass at +2 and just realized this weekend that i should turn bass to at least the C or zero setting and the sub up so that all my bass comes from the sub, not my speakers. Hopefully when i install the new CDT speakers i wont hear this sound, or else it's the receiver, in that case i'm going aftermarket for sure.

brendan
02-17-2004, 10:21 AM
[quote:5856f7374d=" "]am i damaging my speakers?[/quote:5856f7374d]

...or maybe your ears? :)

Seriously though: looking at the stock speakers, they aren't made very tough at all (paper cones, etc.). They're probably slowly dying.

-brendan

lae10851
02-17-2004, 11:16 AM
Maybe your speakers are stressed. Try a little Norah Jones and see if that helps.


LOL
:lol:

Amy

SCREWaerodynamics!
02-17-2004, 11:54 AM
I think the factory amp has inline crossovers....so even if you do turn up the bass, the low frequencies are heading to the subwoofer while everything else goes to the appropriate mids and tweets....

I could be incorrect tho.