Speaker Abuse Page
Fred Lynch, formally of Image Dynamics sent me some of these pictures. People online like to say "brand X is a piece of junk, I blew mine up very easily". Then the repair guy tears it apart and you wonder if they guy is deaf and dumb.
The first picture is a nice one. The adhesive on the ID Max turns black at something like 400+ degrees F. Also, the voicecoil was rubbing on something inside to the point that all the coating on the voicecoil windings melted off. This should sound horribly to the average idiot, then again if you think about your average idiot, about half of them are even dumber than that.
This bad boy you have to look a little closer for the cause of death. Seems they kept bottoming out the sub on the backplate. Think of the sound a spoon would make again a pot, that type of racket usually is produced when you bottom out. Again, the average idiot should tell himself "hey, this doesn't sound good, maybe I should turn it down", but idiots are way to creative to make anything fully idiot proof.
Last but not least. These guys were a real doozy. Fred had to spend quite a bit of time pulling this bad boy out. Again, this one shares some of the trauma as the one above (voicecoil bottoming out) which lead to the voicecoil coming undone and unwinding.
These were brought over by our JBL rep. JBL does field destruction for warranty (instead of shipping a 40 pound speaker, they destroy it and write down the serial numbers and throw away the parts). This is a JBL 10" GTI sub that was smoked.
