Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Nightmare Scenario? Hopefully Not...Advice Please

Folks:

Well, after a fair amount of time this weekend I set up my HT stuff (M60s, VP150, QS8s) and got it working. Tonight, however, while my 9-year old son was playing with the Xbox through the system he got confused re: the volume (he was used to seeing the volume bar on the TV, not on the receiver dial). He was trying to change the volume while the Xbox was on "pause", and he ended up turning the volume up pretty much all the way, since he didn't hear anything and was looking for the volume bar. My fault, as I should have "checked him out" on the system, but bottom line, just as I yelled "DON'T GO BACK TO THE GAME!!!" he went back to the game, with VERY loud volume. It took me about 3-4 seconds to get to the receiver and turn it off.

I've been listening to music since then with an ear for any damage and couldn't hear anything--sounds normal to me. I'll try listening to each speaker tweeter, etc. separately, but is there any other way for me to tell if the speakers have been damaged? My gut says they're okay, as I've got a pretty good ear for detail and I think I'd notice it if there was a problem, but I'd appreciate your suggestions as well. Hopefully the only thing rattled here is me...

Thanks all!

Larry, I think that your son has just inadvertantly proved to you that your 5660 can drive the M60s to an extremely high volume and that the M60s can take it without damage.

i had something like that happen to me once, i was cleaning my stuff like i always do and i guess i put the volume on max on my old reciever when i still had my old JBL's and i turned the radio on a while later and at first it takes the reciever a sec to do its thing and i was walking away and it came on WHOALY s*** scared me half to death it was soo loud. i ran back over and turned it down. it didnt damage anything but... was an experience.

Thanks for the replies...now my only question relates to the woofers/bass. My imagination is probably getting the best of me, but part of me feels like there isn't as much bass as there was before. If there definitely IS bass, and I don't hear anything cracking or buzzing, is there likely no damage? In other words, would it be possible to damage a bass component such that it still functioned, but just not as fully as before? Seems to me it would either vibrate or not, and if functioning but damaged would sound bad. There's no way to lose "x % of bass" is there? I know it's a stupid question but I guess I'm still rattled. Listening to LOTR and some of the bassy parts don't seem QUITE as bassy as they were before (pretty much same receiver settings). Just curious. If I screwed up a woofer, how would I know?

Thanks.

Larry, you were talking about the tweeters at first, and if anything happened it would be the tweeter voice coils that got fried if the amps clipped. Woofers are much sturdier and it's extremely unlikely that they were damaged and the tweeters weren't.

You must remember, John, that PlainHaven hasn't had his system set up for very long and it is likely that the M60s weren't properly broken in before this calamitous event occurred.
Just kidding. Crack open a Little Kings and forget about it.

BigWill, you got a mean streak a mile wide, baby! But consider the Little Kings cracked open!!!

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Larry

Little Kings?!?! Oh for chrissake.... Either take it to the beer thread, of crack open something a bit more satisfying.

Really, to quote Charlie Papazian, Relax, Don't Worry, have a Homebrew. Or maybe a nice Duvel?

I was trying to think of a beer from Ohio, but now I'm not even sure Little Kings hail from there - I haven't seen one out here since high school. How about Augsburger? Schoenling?