subwoofer

[chuckn]

I have a polk 10" powered subwoofer for my home theater. It hardly produces any base, it mostly crackles. I suspect it is blown. I don't know how this happened since we rarely use it. Can I replace the subwwofer with a car subwoofer. Does it sound like it is blown.

[davidld]

> I have a polk 10" powered subwoofer for
> my home theater. It hardly produces any
> base, it mostly crackles. I suspect it is
> blown. I don't know how this happened since
> we rarely use it. Can I replace the
> subwwofer with a car subwoofer. Does it
> sound like it is blown.

First, we need to determine if the amp is blown or the driver is blown. THe Amp might actually be the easier of the two fixes. In general I would steer clear of car subwoofers and go with a standard driver designed for a home sub. But we don't know that the driver is the problem.