You referring to the bad driver? If so, it's a blown voice coil. Back in the day I used to run a lot of high end car audio and would run into bad voice coils. That's exactly how this driver sounds and feels when you lightly push in on it. Lots of distortion and resistance with grinding when you push in on the driver.

I am a bit surprised to receive a new speaker with an already blown voice coil though. I have only blown voice coils when over driven or if there was a power spike. Never had one new in the box. Although I don't know if Axiom tests each driver before shipping. Perhaps something happened during testing.

If the bad driver wasn't what you were referring to, my bad.... smile

Last edited by Dragbug; 12/14/18 05:30 AM.
M60
VP180
M2i
Sony STR-DN 1080