Okay so here's the story: about a Month ago i blew the Tinsel Leads to my Fi Q I contacted Scott and he sent me 2 new leads and a dustcap yesterday i broke into the sub and replaced the negative leads(thoose were the only ones blown off)This morning i hooked up the sub And altough some bass did play it was not very loud and when i played a song with lower end bass i could hear rattling coming from within the sub also their wasn't much excursion. So question is...
1.do i need to replace both the positive and negative tinsel leads? Scott just sent me 2 but i didn't tell him it was dual 2 ohm sub either so he may have thought i was just replacing one side
2.Is it fixable or will i just need to buy a new sub? is a recone a possible fix?
Alright i found out why it wasn't loud turns out my gain was set all the way off i thought i left it the way it was but i guess not but their still is that scratching noise when deep bass hits.
Scratching means VC rubbing. (Mostly) Try pushing on the sub lightly without playing music. Still scratching? You may be over exerting it also. Could be why the leads came off in the first place.
I'm not sure if their woven.. 2 are the orginals and 2 are the replacements he sent me how would i fix tinsel slap? And how hard is a recone to do? I'm willing to do it myself if it's fairly simple and price guess for recone kit?
I'm going to guess around $100 for the recone by itself. I have never did a recone myself, but looks fairly simple.
There isn't really a "Fix" for tinsel slap, it's more less just a patch. I've seen people use a small piece of felt on the cone to protect where the tinsels slaps (hence the name tinsel slap). Can you get any pics or the sub where the tinsels are?
Ya i'll pull it out tommorow and take some pics is it caused from to long of tinsels? cuz the ones i replaced it with i left fairly big i didn't thing it would matter.
Well i added some padding above and below the tinsels and it still makes the noise i played the sub free air and if i have the sub slanted it doesn't make it that loud unless i turn it up but if the sub is standing up if i put my hand over the hole in the bottom it gets louder... Guessing I'll be needing a new sub or re-cone... let me know what i can do.. And on a scale of 1-10 how hard is a re-cone to do yourself...
I read a how to on reconing and all it really is, is just cutting out the old cone pealing the rest of the old stuff off and gluing the new one on. just have to have patients and dont rush so it comes out right.
