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KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

no warranty against failure?

that smell is fucking terrible, btw

what's really fucking hilarious is that i could smell it for about 20 minutes before the pop happened. something was clearly overheating or nearing the end of its little electrical life. but i keep all of my whisky bottles next to my speaker stands and i seriously thought the smell was lagavulin if i ever have a heavy night on the islay scotch there is a lingering smell of iodine. for fucksake. i was literally smelling my beloved speakers burning to death and i thought it was delicious whisky.

and yeah, there's a warranty, but i got them second-hand from a recording studio (of course). all for the sake of saving about $300 at the time. sod's law.

Last edited by uziq (2016-02-06 01:00:04)

don't think you understand how main speaker cones in high-end audio equipment are constructed. to even look at the voice coil to see if it's unglued/burned up would involve destroying a lot of the assembly. and if it's a capacitor or something that needs replacing, it's an unreal nightmare trying to restore the crossover and balance of the speaker pair with different parts. kinda destroys the point of having $1500 speakers when they are unbalanced and sound off.

Last edited by uziq (2016-02-06 01:32:04)

yeah i'm not saying it's the greatest engineering challenge in the world, but what i am saying is that a speakers' sound profile is often highly specifically down to their driver construction and the parts used. i can't easily source the stuff that a tiny boutique company in berlin use. so i have to send a very heavy and fragile piece of equipment to the fucking GDR. i'm really hoping it's just the voice-coil glue that has come unstuck and shorted it out or something, because i was not mistreating these speakers at all...

if this was an everyday hi-fi in my living room and i didn't give a fuck, i'd probably seriously look into doing it myself. but they are meant to be forensic monitors. defeats the point.

Last edited by uziq (2016-02-06 01:39:39)

i have contacted them and i am lubricating my asshole in preparation to be raped

Last edited by uziq (2016-02-06 02:08:44)

I'd at least take the back off and have a look. I do that when things are working fine though.

the burning smell is most likely the epoxy glue they use to glue the voice-coil in the driver part of the speaker to its circular founding (normally made of aluminium or something semi-heatstink suitable in higher end speakers; cardboard and low quality paper in piece of shit hi-fis). if you have ever looked at a high-level speaker, you would realise that the voice-coil is nestled deep inside an apparatus that basically needs to be ripped apart – i.e. the 'spider' nesting that keeps it in suspension behind the speaker's front cone. i would have to gut the speaker in order to reglue or replace the voice-coil. this is pretty much replacing the whole speaker. to order the whole driver apparatus from the manufacturer would probably cost me 70% of the units total value. there isn't much else to an (active) speaker other than the small amplifier and power supply, the body, and a tweeter (as expensive and high-level as this one is, it's still not that valuable).

i'm basically feeling really blue. weep.

Last edited by uziq (2016-02-06 06:07:58)

aye, well the manufacturer is in germany and i know i'm fucked on warranty so i might save myself the insane shipping fees + wait time and take it to some workshop wizard in bristol. not as if i have anything to lose by him opening it up and fucking with the components. it's just whether or not i can source a driver from the original manufacturer. replacing the whole speaker will cause serious financial hurt >

Ask one of your Asian girls to fix it or build you a new one.

That closing "fuck" says all there needs to be said about speaker mess.

i bought a new iPhone 6 from the apple store. they said there was nothing else for it (of course).

next weekend my speaker burns out.

having a run of bad luck eh

Retiling a bathroom?

Last edited by Jay (2016-02-07 05:31:49)

uziq wrote:

i bought a new iPhone 6 from the apple store.

Sweet, you can use it for this
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/5/109225 … s-vuignier

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