I'm not a stereo guy, I know one thing about speakers, music comes out of them,...........sometimes. One of my back speakers was not working, I took it out and cleaned all the connections on the speaker and the wires coming off the radio. I then used a jumper wire from the radio to a different speaker, and that one worked. I then hooked the old speaker back up and used the jumper wire from where the gold wires go into the speaker paper to a different speaker and it worked.

My question is the non-working speaker looked great, no torn paper contacts looked good and worked, but no sound. Where do they fail?

Thanks
Mike

 

Sometimes a broken connection will occur where the
flex wire connects to the voice coil wire-this connection
is on the front side of the cone and is usually covered
with glue or varnish,sometimes this problem is able
to be repaired.Burnt-out voice coils can occur if amp
shorts out or speaker power rating way exceded.

 

both are true. but a tensile lead (wire from terminal to coil) may be coming apart inside. that said i have been installing stereos for 12 yrs and if you have a component speaker going bad save yourself some money and buy new. because repairing it is not worth it and you probably won't find anyone who will repair it. although if they are already aftermarket the manufacturer may replace them if under warranty


a couple of good brands that will last are jvc, pioneer, fusion, and lanzar

 

Thanks for both replys, I will be getting a new speaker.

mike