Poll of the Day > One of my speakers keep cutting out

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Basically my audio goes like this: everything(including PC audio) gets funneled into my stereo receiver which is hooked up to a set of pioneer speakers.

Im going to rewire it to see if that works with unused speaker wire, but what if it just dying? other speaker works just fine

These arent super expensive speakers but I'd hate to hear one of my speakers is actually dying, because theyre awesome.


https://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-SP-BS22-LR-Designed-Bookshelf-Loudspeakers/dp/B008NCD2LG

I've never known a speaker to "die", except by having the wire break. Even a half broken speaker still puts out sound, just much lower quality sound. Especially if the sound is "cutting in and out" I would expect it to be the wire.
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I dont know much about speakers but even i think its odd to just cut out. but im gonna rewire it and see.

if that doesnt get it whats my next step?

take it apart and see what's up inside the box
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the wire usually is very obviously soldered to two leads on the base of the actual internal speaker and is "really easy" to replace (naturally depends on the particular speaker). make sure to keep black and red on the proper leads. (as far as I know, wiring it backwards still works, but the sound will be weakened or something.)

the harder part is probably the other end with the plug. you need to either splice the new wire to the old plug, or onto a new plug (or maybe you have wire that already ends in a plug). as long as you replace the part of the wire that has the break, and solder it properly with no shorts, this will very very likely solve the problem.

a speaker that just doesn't work even with a replaced wire is not something I've ever seen or heard of. I've seen speakers that are basically torn in half still work, they just sound terrible. I think the actual speaker mechanism is simple enough that it's very unlikely for it to fail. (not an audio or electronics expert by any means though.)
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Sahuagin posted...

as far as I know, wiring it backwards still works, but the sound will be weakened or something

depending on amp strength and some other stuff, wiring a speaker backwards can result in a blown speaker
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I should also say, if you can identify the spot in the wire that is broken (move it around and try to get the sound to cut out, and look for a part that seems crooked or bent inside; it will probably be a part of the wire that tends to move or get yanked on more often) then you can just splice out that part of the wire, which is a lot easier than opening the speaker. (though if the wire gets yanked hard on the speaker end pretty often or something, the break may be inside the speaker or even right at the connection to the speaker.)
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There is no need for me to mess with that stuff. I should have clarified, run speaker wire from it to my stereo.