Cranked up that one track from the 90s at a red light in Portland and my right speaker just went totally dead mid-bass drop

It was last Saturday afternoon, I was sitting at a long light on Burnside with the windows down, and the second the beat kicked in, the passenger side speaker just popped and went silent has anyone else had a factory system fail on a specific song like that?

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the_hugo18d ago

Yeah, your passenger side speaker just sacrificed itself for the 90s, that's some real dedication right there." I swear car speakers have a hidden code where they instantly self destruct if the bass hits too hard on a specific frequency. Maybe your ride just couldn't handle that particular banger and decided to tap out early.

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oliver_wilson4918d agoMost Upvoted

Must be some kind of factory defect from that whole era.

hayden_butler275d ago

Wait, is that actually a thing with certain frequencies? I've blown two speakers in my old Civic and it was always some random bass-heavy song that did it, not even ones that seemed that loud. In my experience, the cheaper paper cone speakers from that era were just built to fail, especially if they got any moisture or age on them. But I swear I've heard people talk about specific Hz ranges that just wreck tweeters and midrange drivers, like a resonance thing. Makes you wonder if car manufacturers knew about it and just didn't care because they were cheap parts anyway. Your mileage may vary, but I always figured it was more the age and heat cycles making the foam surround brittle over time.