My son accidently pushed in the textile dome tweeter of my new speakers. I
took a band aid and pulled it out lightly with the sticky part. I know this
may sound anal but if I look close I can see a spec the size of a dot still
pushed in a little but there is no tear. The speakers sound fine. My
question is, could the tweeter be damaged in some way even though it sounds
fine at this time.

Thanks
Randy

In article <x7-dnQnSA5sipe3fRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Randy and Michelle" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> My son accidently pushed in the textile dome tweeter of my new speakers. I
> took a band aid and pulled it out lightly with the sticky part. I know this
> may sound anal but if I look close I can see a spec the size of a dot still
> pushed in a little but there is no tear. The speakers sound fine. My
> question is, could the tweeter be damaged in some way even though it sounds
> fine at this time.
>
> Thanks
> Randy
>
>

Usually a dustcap for a driver is just that, it keeps dust from the
motor's internals. If it sounds fine, it probably is fine. The dustcap
will give before the surround when pushed in, so there shouldn't be any
type of internal damage.

Time for those grill's eh?

--
Cyrus

*coughcasaucedoprodigynetcough*

Cyrus wrote:
> In article <x7-dnQnSA5sipe3fRVn-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> "Randy and Michelle" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>My son accidently pushed in the textile dome tweeter of my new speakers. I
>>took a band aid and pulled it out lightly with the sticky part. I know this
>>may sound anal but if I look close I can see a spec the size of a dot still
>>pushed in a little but there is no tear. The speakers sound fine. My
>>question is, could the tweeter be damaged in some way even though it sounds
>>fine at this time.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Randy
>>
>>
>
>
> Usually a dustcap for a driver is just that, it keeps dust from the
> motor's internals. If it sounds fine, it probably is fine. The dustcap
> will give before the surround when pushed in, so there shouldn't be any
> type of internal damage.
>
> Time for those grill's eh?
>
Dome tweeters must be more resilient compared to their cone tweeter
couterparts. Once I left the grilles off of my speakers and my 2 year
old pushed both of my cone tweeters in. There was definitely a loss of
high-end. I assumeed that the damage done to them was un-recoverable and
eventually replaced them.

CD

Randy and Michelle wrote:
> My son accidently pushed in the textile dome tweeter of my new
> speakers. I took a band aid and pulled it out lightly with the
sticky
> part. I know this may sound anal but if I look close I can see a
> spec the size of a dot still pushed in a little but there is no
tear.

Sounds like you did the right thing.

> The speakers sound fine. My question is, could the tweeter be
damaged
> in some way even though it sounds fine at this time.

There shouldn't be a problem.