So I hooked up a pair of 10's in the back of my 94 civic DX the other day, 1100w peak 300w rms bridged on a 600w 2 channel amp. Everything was working great when I was tuning the amp, and then after I was driving for about 10 minutes all of a sudden my front speakers just stopped working completely. I doubt I blew them out, because I wasn't pushing them hard or anything and if I had, wouldn't they still be making noise but would just sound terrible? They're completely silent, as if they're not even hooked up.. But I checked the connections to them, which are fine. Everything appears to be in order. So what would make them just die on me all of a sudden when I'm driving down the road? One second my whole system was working great then the next, BAM, no front speakers.

P.S. I have no rear speakers; I only run the front pair of 5 1/4"s and my two subs in the back. Thanks in advance!

 

What are you running the front speakers from -radio or -amp?

 

I'm running them through the radio; they aren't connected to/through the amp at all.

 

where did you check the connections? because you can take a nine volt battery (making sure to disconnect them from your radio) and test for sound. If you hear the popping from the battery then the speakers are most likely good.

 

can use a 1.5 volt AA battery also . Worked at a stereo shop and used to us AA to check for correct positive and negitive. if speaker popped out it was correct. I hate when amps post PEAK power that dont mean crap . Its RMS you want . OK sorry about the rant lol. if the speaker is blown and burns the voice coil it sometime wont make any noise. try the battery thing and let us know .

 

It has nothing to do with his amp as his subs are fine. It's front speakers, rms has no meaning here.

 

So I tried the battery trick, and yes, I *did* hear sound.

 

if you know for sure that youre speaker works...
either

theres a lose connection from the car stereo to the speakers
check your harness..maybe something came lose after you installed the amp...
wire harness/plug check everything

or (is your head unit/car stereo after market?)
if it is...pull it out...connect the speaker straight out from the stereo see if it works..
if it works then you know whats up...
if not...the front channel of your car stereo is blown...

start there...

 

I know it had nothing to do with the amp , I stated it was a rant on amps posting Peak, that part had nothing to do with his car.

 

ARMED has it covered =] cant go wrong with that advice

 

the stuff I have seen , it could do with the amp. I think the best was someone tried to bridge the output of a radio and then run to amp input. Radio went poof. funny stuff. Hope you get your speaker going .

 

Read the OP's first post. It has nothing to do with the amp, period

 

I know it has nothing to do with the AMP it was hypothetical . OK for the record it has nothing to do with the AMP . follow ARMED advice . I was stating something that someone really stupid did to blow up there stuff, to there amp nothing to do with this guys amp ,

 

Make sure the bass in the rear did not cause your rear speaker leads to short out the headunit if they are expossed in the back.

And yes, I seen in many cases that a bad amp blow out a headunit internal amp. Voltage going back up the rca's will do that no problem.

 

I have never heard of that nor seen that, I installed for over 18 years. Interesting

 

 

Once of the easiest ways of it happing is letting the amp output touch the amps body. Say someone sets the sub box on top of the amp and it shorts. It will blow the rca output and damage the headunit and amp.

 

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