^^Oh gawd I dunno. Bloke I bought 'em off assures me they were fine and in full working order and for better or for worse I do believe him. To be fair he has been in constant contact and is helping me get it sorted. Basically, they worked fine all day on Saturday but at some point towards the end of a long session one of them started to crackle then the driver cut out. I did have them up pretty loud at some points but not for long periods of time never anywhere near cranked, they have a gain control on each which is notched at 12 o’clock for 0db and I never turned this up past 1 o’clock and only then in conjunction with backing off the input volume. Most of the time they were off while we were tracking anyway. Plus the music I’m working on isn’t really speaker-threatening, although I suppose a loud plosive from an uncompressed vocal could conceivably have triggered something…
Anyway, turning the monitor off and on again seems to reset the drivers with no permanent damage but the crackling kept returning, even when no signal was present. I replaced the power leads, speaker leads, connections and tried different input sources… same deal. Yesterday I turned them on, played some fairly quiet acoustic music though them for half an hour then both drivers cut out. I reset them and then wandered off and left the mac to go to sleep. A couple of hours later there was a loud crackling and banging from next door. Something seriously not right there.
Soundtools who originally sold them to the guy I bought them off have been really good and said they’re covered by a 5 year warranty and have offered to provide the original buyer a duplicate invoice/proof of sale as he has lost his. He’s forwarding me that and which means I can get them repaired by a company called cimple solutions under warranty (assuming they don’t claim user error). Bit of a bugger but at least everyone involved has been helpful.
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^^Oh gawd I dunno. Bloke I bought 'em off assures me they were fine and in full working order and for better or for worse I do believe him. To be fair he has been in constant contact and is helping me get it sorted. Basically, they worked fine all day on Saturday but at some point towards the end of a long session one of them started to crackle then the driver cut out. I did have them up pretty loud at some points but not for long periods of time never anywhere near cranked, they have a gain control on each which is notched at 12 o’clock for 0db and I never turned this up past 1 o’clock and only then in conjunction with backing off the input volume. Most of the time they were off while we were tracking anyway. Plus the music I’m working on isn’t really speaker-threatening, although I suppose a loud plosive from an uncompressed vocal could conceivably have triggered something…
Anyway, turning the monitor off and on again seems to reset the drivers with no permanent damage but the crackling kept returning, even when no signal was present. I replaced the power leads, speaker leads, connections and tried different input sources… same deal. Yesterday I turned them on, played some fairly quiet acoustic music though them for half an hour then both drivers cut out. I reset them and then wandered off and left the mac to go to sleep. A couple of hours later there was a loud crackling and banging from next door. Something seriously not right there.
Soundtools who originally sold them to the guy I bought them off have been really good and said they’re covered by a 5 year warranty and have offered to provide the original buyer a duplicate invoice/proof of sale as he has lost his. He’s forwarding me that and which means I can get them repaired by a company called cimple solutions under warranty (assuming they don’t claim user error). Bit of a bugger but at least everyone involved has been helpful.