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Old May 13, 2019 | 07:17 AM
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Driving to work this morning, sounding great up to 90 with a full face helmet. Get close to work, and I hear a pop. The right tweeter is now out. I am assuming it blew, but I'll double check to make sure a wire didn't disconnect somehow.

Honestly, I'm not sure how it would have blown. It's an 8 ohm speaker with the gain set far less than the 601.4s. If it is blown, I'll give the 35s a try with more power handling.
 
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Old May 13, 2019 | 07:39 AM
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I've seen several pictures and have a general idea, but what is on your bike? Also what amp drives which speakers? Are the ST25 supplied with a cap?
 
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I've seen several pictures and have a general idea, but what is on your bike? Also what amp drives which speakers? Are the ST25 supplied with a cap?
They are the DTX26t, running 8 ohms off of a Soundstream Rubicon Nano. RMS shows 50 at 8 ohms, so based on my gains, I would be surprised if I hot that number. They are running on individual channels, with a high pass filter on the amp at 4khtz. Because of the high pass filter, I did not put the cap on.
 
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Old May 13, 2019 | 08:57 AM
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I agree that it sounds like you had it all dialed in. I wonder how accurate the xover **** is on the SS amp. Maybe use the capacitors on whatever you replace it with for added insurance. Are the mmats rebuildable?
 
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Not sure, but as new as they are, I'm sure they are returnable.
 
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MMATs told me if you blow a speaker and l send it in they will rebuild on site and send them back out ASAP
 
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MMATs told me if you blow a speaker and l send it in they will rebuild on site and send them back out ASAP
I called today and they offered to sell me a rebuild on it. I just decided to buy a new pair of the 35s. They handle twice the power, are shorter and keep the same hole diameter.

I've been really impressed with Mmats, so I am going to assume this is a fluke or I somehow had tuning wrong. Luckily they are very reasonably priced.
 
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Yea I know you said you have your crossovers set to 4K but is that going off an amp or a dsp? If it’s off an amp I would probably put the capacitors in line. But yea I agree definitely impressed with the MMATs line up.
 
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Good news. GBS is going to send me a rebuild kit for free. I'll run the caps with the crossover off the amp and should be pretty good. I actually already bought some 35s so I'll rebuild the 26s and add those to my new commuter truck to match the other set of 601.4s
 
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