{"id":567,"date":"2024-01-01T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merserver.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2024-01-01T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T16:48:24","slug":"how-to-test-damaged-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/01\/how-to-test-damaged-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Test Damaged Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a quick and dirty test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set up the undamaged monitor in a quiet environment.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reset all settings to default, if applicable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Point any microphone of reasonable quality on-axis to the tweeter, maybe placed 2ft away.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u2019s fine if this isn\u2019t a measurement mic; we only care about differences, not absolute data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using your analysis software of choice, take a transfer function measurement of the known-good speaker and save it.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dual-FFT ala Smaart\/OpenSoundMeter is ordinarily my preference for expedient work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, Room EQ Wizard (like other swept-sine analyzers) is likely the better tool here as you can also measure distortion\/waterfall plots. Which I would do. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With the data saved, remove the good monitor and replace it with the suspect monitor. Re-measure and save.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Same position, same angle, same settings, etc. Minimize other variables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare the two sets of data, particularly in the tweeter\u2019s passband, allowing some margin for error. Check for deviations in frequency response, increased harmonic distortion, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a quick and dirty test: Compare the two sets of data, particularly in the tweeter\u2019s passband, allowing some margin for error. Check for deviations in frequency response, increased harmonic distortion, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}