well I got my 2 15" icons running off a zx2500. How well can they take it on clean power? I can beat mine for about a good 10 min then they start to give a little smell out. I have the bass boost off and gains only set 1/4 of the way. On one song today I even heard it pop. Looked like from over excursion or something ( if thats what makes them pop). I am getting a buddy of mine that owns a shop to see what he thinks and if the smell is the voice coils.

Edited May 22, 200817 yr by SEC

you'll never know if the signal is clean or not untill you get it on a Oscope. See if your friend has one of those.

And for reference, when I had my RF 3kd scoped, full signal with a soft clip was just below 1/4 turn on the gain knob, so just to show you, that the knob's amount of turn doesn't really effect much. GL

That smell could very well be some of the excess glue burning off as the subs break in. If they continue to give off a smell then we might need to make sure your box is not too big or maybe even the signal the amp is getting is clean etc.

Ya I dont know if its the acutally woofer. cause when i smell the outside like the cone and dont smell anything and its just a little warm. but when i smell inside the port its bad. Could it be ex excess glue or resin or w/e is used the seal up the boxes that i could be smelling?

Ya I dont know if its the acutally woofer. cause when i smell the outside like the cone and dont smell anything and its just a little warm. but when i smell inside the port its bad. Could it be ex excess glue or resin or w/e is used the seal up the boxes that i could be smelling?

You won't smell anything from the front of the sub. Anything you'll get a smell from will be on the back side of the woofer, hence why you smell alot from the port. just back down your gains and what not and you'll be fine untill you get it scoped.

kk ya dont wanna mess these babies up!

Well go easy on them for a bit and see if the smell continues.

Well one of them blew today =(

recone is in route practically, lol

Time to get on the O-scope.

Ya i dont know where to get one! ill have to check some shops around here and see if they got an o scope

An electrical repair shop should have one.