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Bally - The Addams Family (TAF) - Speaker issues (one out of three sounds)

By mima

10 years ago



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#1 10 years ago

Ya, its me again....

with yet another newbie question..

My TAF sounds like crap and I put ten seconds of thought into it the other day and decided to go for a speaker upgrade. However while that short ponder lasted I did a brief check of the speakers (i imagined they had dried out/cracked/seized up over all these years) but it seams like the only sounding speaker is the left front one (the first to get fed from the sound card). A quick soundboard check (one beep ok...) later and a swift browse through the tests it all "looks ok" on that side.

Aside from: the wiring from the soundboard (via top left speaker?) to the cab-base speaker and the right speaker

What else to look for troubleshooting ( a crapped up speaker should make some kind of noice if fed with a signal)?

Thanx for reading
//Mima

#2 10 years ago

Not sure if this will do you any good but could you swap the left with the right speaker and see what it does?

flipping the speakers could narrow it down to whether its the actual speakers or the wiring.

1 month later
#3 10 years ago

I had the same problem on my TAF. The only speaker working was top left backbox speaker. My machine had been in a container for years from Germany, so who knows what goes on inside these machines. I checked the other two speakers with a 9v battery and 2 wires coming off the + and the negative. Touched them to the leads of the speakers, and after a couple of times, they produced static. Now they work....go figure? Maybe they were stuck.
All i know is that my pin sounds a lot better. Worth a try, at least you will know if speakers are fried. ie: you hear no static. Another question answered was which speaker lead was positive and which negative since they are not marked. If the speaker pushes out, you have it connected correctly. If it sucks in, you have the positive of the battery hooked to negative lead of speaker.

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