[SOT] Testing Speakers

[jlagnese at massed.net (John S. Lagnese)]

Did you try reversing the speakers? Bypassing the crossover? Switching the
input leads? These are the first 3 things I would try.
John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Sterling" <bgsterling@bluebottle.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:33 AM
Subject: [SOT] Testing Speakers


> Hi all,
>
> While this is not Scirocco specific, it's about car audio, so it
> applies.
>
> I recently inherited an older amp and external crossover.  I decided
> to hook them up in one of my non-Scirocco beaters.  Everything sounds
good,
> but I'm not getting any sound out of the left front speaker.  The speaker
> was working before I installed the amp and x-over.  The amp and x-over
were
> working in a car just prior to my getting them (so I'm told).  I've
visually
> checked all the connection points and they're good.  So if I use a
> multimeter to check the connection points (e.g. out from receiver, into
> x-over, out of x-over, into amp, out of amp, and into speaker) to see
where
> I'm losing signal, what would I measure?  Voltage?  Continuity?  I've got
a
> multimeter, just not enough smarts on how to use it in this case.  Any
help
> would be appreciated.
>
> -Brad
> '86 Scirocco 16v
>
>
>
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