Tweeter crackle

guesswhatimevan · May 5, 2011

I've been in a constant battle with my trucks stereo for years now and it's driving me crazy.

-Alpine mrp f600 running Boston Acoustics SR50.
-Kicker dx500.1 running two 10" kicker VT's @ 2ohm.

The F*$&CKING tweeter crackles with every bass hit, and it's completely random. I've had it work fine for months then randomly it crackles once and continues for weeks to months. I know it's not the speakers themselfs because my Type R's did the same thing.

Alpine amp was installed by a stereo shop, kicker was installed by me.
All the wiring is correct, grounds are fine, i really don't know what's wrong.

And i don't have the gain cranked up or anything of that sort.

Forgot to add that now the speakers are now popping if i turn the stereo up to a good volume

rawpower1417 · May 5, 2011

It sounds like the voice coil is cracked. Are you sure the speakers are fine? Plus Tweeters have built in cross overs to stop the bass. It might be possible that the crossover went bad. Other then that I wouldn't know every time I've heard crackling from a speaker its been the voice coil. Does it do it at any volume or just when you turn it up?

guesswhatimevan · May 5, 2011

rawpower1417 said:
It sounds like the voice coil is cracked. Are you sure the speakers are fine? Plus Tweeters have built in cross overs to stop the bass. It might be possible that the crossover went bad. Other then that I wouldn't know every time I've heard crackling from a speaker its been the voice coil. Does it do it at any volume or just when you turn it up?

I'm almost 100% sure it's not the speakers or crossovers that are bad. I'm on my 2nd set of components that do the same exact thing, right tweeter crackles.

loudrango · May 6, 2011

tweeters aren't supposed to have bass run through them anyway.do you have crossovers?i know you said all wiring was right,but if you have crossovers,it's possible the tweeter is wired onto the midbass part of the crossover.if so then the tweeter is trying to play frequencies it wasn't meant to play thus the crackling.

guesswhatimevan · May 6, 2011

loudrango said:
tweeters aren't supposed to have bass run through them anyway.do you have crossovers?i know you said all wiring was right,but if you have crossovers,it's possible the tweeter is wired onto the midbass part of the crossover.if so then the tweeter is trying to play frequencies it wasn't meant to play thus the crackling.

That was the first thing i checked when my tweeter started acting up, the tweeter is wired onto the tweeter connection for sure.
I don't understand why it crackles with bass hits when 0 bass should be going to the tweets.

loudrango · May 7, 2011

my next move would then be to swap out crossovers.

guesswhatimevan · May 7, 2011

loudrango said:
my next move would then be to swap out crossovers.

It's not the crossovers. I'm on my 2nd set of tweeters, woofers, and crossovers and both sets did the same thing.

91eflx · May 20, 2011

are your rca's for that amp ran by the power wire by chance?

NeverEnuffBass · May 20, 2011

Is it just one tweeter or both?

Are you running rear speakers off the 4 channel amp?

Try switching RCAs for the fronts and rears, see if the crackling noise moves to the rear speakers.

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