Whoop There It Is

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This was posted on another board also, if some of you recognise it.
Posted for the benefit of those who don't get around or missed it.

It goes like this:

So I am diddling around in the studio practicing and such and I begin to hear a low frequency pop when the bass kicks, hmmmm. :shrug

This little story involves a Behringer B300 powered speaker first of all. And secondly lets not hear any thash talk.

So these speakers are used in my studio, never on a gig before.
I bought them 14.5 months ago, aahem..... just my luck.

Understandably companies are in most cases hard line with warranty adjustments. It's like pregnancy, you either are or you are not. Well I wasn't and was directed to a post warranty service center 2.5 hours from here with a 70# speaker.

Now I am figuring a blown woofer despite never having whacked these with out being fully aware of clipping.
So I pull the grill and move the cone, clean and tight.....ooook.
Next move.......lets check the impedance......3 ohms..ooooook.

So is it the speaker or not? Hmmmmm.
Ok lets do this with the idiot method.
I swap out the other woofer, no difference, not the speaker, cool.
Nothing touching the cone on the inside, I reinstall the woofer.

Now I call the service center again and again and again.....
"We want the whole 70# speaker, the board is matched to the individual speaker". But it's ok if I buy and install a speaker I don't need..............riiiiiiiight.
"Nope, can't sell you the board. We'll fix yours, $120.00 aprox."
Now that's plus frieght or 5 hours drive round trip x2.

Now I'm pissed and cornered but willing to buy the dam board.

So I took the board out to wiggle test everything with no luck.

Then I got lucky. Had these eyes been 20 again I probably would have seen the cold/open solder joint without the magnafying glass on one of the capacators, whoop there it is !!!!! :banger

So inside of 10 minutes the thing was touched with a soldering iron and back together singing at the top of it's lungs once again. :tup

The moral of the story is, " if something doesn't make perfect sence or is clearly defective, take a closer look." :wow

Any idiot could have fixed this, it just took a closer look to find it.