Well we have had the Good experiences but we all must have a bad one somewhere...whether it be a Speaker not fitting or Speaker tab breaking off...

Me First

I had a pair of Crossfire 5/14 inch 2-ways in my Astra, I had them for 2-weeks when the Tweeter burned out on one of them, I sent them back only for crossfire to tell me I had over powered them..These speakers had a power handling of 60W RMS and I had only fed them a Clean Signal off a 4x35 Pioneer cassette deck..
Now if crossfire said I had over powered them, then why was one tweeter burned out and the other perfectly OK ?? What happened to one should have happened to the other...Needless to say that Frying is not covered by warranty so that was $160 wasted...

Well we have had the Good experiences but we all must have a bad one somewhere...whether it be a Speaker not fitting or Speaker tab breaking off...

Me First

I had a pair of Crossfire 5/14 inch 2-ways in my Astra, I had them for 2-weeks when the Tweeter burned out on one of them, I sent them back only for crossfire to tell me I had over powered them..These speakers had a power handling of 60W RMS and I had only fed them a Clean Signal off a 4x35 Pioneer cassette deck..
Now if crossfire said I had over powered them, then why was one tweeter burned out and the other perfectly OK ?? What happened to one should have happened to the other...Needless to say that Frying is not covered by warranty so that was $160 wasted...

A head unit hardly ever really gives a clean signal compared to an amp, although I am still skeptical that overpowering was the cause; they start clipping very early, around the 70% volume mark. Why one burnt out and not the other? Manufacturing tolerances.

My bad experience; first days in car audio I ran 2 x 4ohm 6x9s in parallel across 2 "100WRMS" channels on an Audioline amp, bridged together, giving each channel a 1ohm load. Cranked it so hard over Summer and finally one day it blew, but damn it was so loud for the 6 months or so.

Yeah once a headunit starts clipping its actual output may exceed 60 w rms. This is the problem with clipping, the sudden jump in efficiency. You will never have two tweets blow at the same time. They have a different signal going through them and very hard to make identical tweets. Even Morel Supremos wont blow at the same time and they are matched perfectly.

put a HOLE though a new set of splits when screwing them into the car:confused:

Done that before with two sets... I sneezed and put a screw driver through the surround..

Put a hole the the rubber in a 12" sub :doubt:

Still used it afterwards and still sounds pretty normal :D

:bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl:

I still fail to see how people can put a screw or screwdriver through their speakers.

EEK, you obviously never installed anything whilst drunk before.....

lol Screwdrivers are shocking... Never done it b4 though. Worst I've done are blown fuses back in the day.

You can get special screwdrivers that are spring loaded that wont puncture surrounds. But pfft, im too careful :)

Unplugging ur battery helps for electrical work.

Err. Floating cabin was good for a laugh.

I had 19 discrete earthing levels in my TP. Real fun...

Hahaha putting a hole through the surrounds is the funniest thing i've ever heard, imagine that. You wake up sober in the morning and look at the install and go 'whos the idiot that damaged my splits'.

I've never done anything that would damage my system, except bought crappy products, which is more damaging than blowing fuses in my opinion.

I had a pioneer tape deck a while ago now that lasted 3 weeks before the tape mech buggered up, it took a month to have fixed and then it only lasted 3 months before it started playing up :doubt: so no more pioneer from then on lol

I used to be a really big fan of Pioneer. (Still am, just not for car audio)

DEH5550MP...

Everytime i tried to connect one of the RCA the earth would 'blow' on it and cause a loud whine.

Even had the pioneer tech doods fix it 3 times and then put it into the car themselves. Deal was if they could fix the whine i would pay for the install done. They couldnt fix it.

I could have swapped it out for another one but i was selling the car, so i didnt bother.

Wont touch another pioneer peice of audio again.

(All my previous stuff has been pioneer)

Everytime i tried to connect one of the RCA the earth would 'blow' on it and cause a loud whine.

So did one of the fuses keep blowing?? one of the fuses in my parents magna kept blowing (one for dash lights) when I put a mp3 player in. You wouldn't notice during the day except u would get a whineing noise through the speakers. Fixed the problem by running a new earth wire and not using they're crappy small one.

EEK, you obviously never installed anything whilst drunk before.....
Anyone who installs anything while drunk deserves all they get. :nuts:

Anyone who installs anything while drunk deserves all they get. :nuts:
Why? I do most of my best work after a touch of claret