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Thanks for the replies! They confirm what I was thinking, that it was the amp and not the speakers. I was only driving them with a smaller amp, so they wouldn't come alive like they would with more power. The person I was talking about ended up buying the speakers, so he seemed to also feel that it wasn't the speakers. He said he hit about 100w at the peak when he came over to listen to them and I had a huge grin on my face hearing that. I can't wait until I have the $ to invest in a proper system with a nice amp.

I have stayed in contact with this person and he told me 'I'm hearing that this model just had some kind of strange unexplainable issue with distortion at higher volumes.' Someone he trusts as a authority on speakers is telling him that KLF 30s (and 20s but not 10s) will distort and not handle power well and that this is a known issue for the model. Is this a know issue? This is what he is blaming for the sounds we heard. I told him to hook his amp up to his speakers to see if the same sounds occur.He hasn't done that yet.

Thanks for some good news. I tested the other speaker and the results were almost identical. I had someone come over to listen to my pair and he brought his own amplifier. It was a kenwood amp, a power amp and a pre-amp setup. The volume knob would crackle over the speakers when moved, as well as every frequency adjustment knob (bass -treble). So, when he turned it up to what he said was 100watt at its loudest (which was shaking the place) it would sound fine, and then it would sound crackly, and loud pops were overpowering the sound of the music. The perspective buyer seemed knowledgeble but I told him that I had never heard those sounds on my amp and that I didn't think it was my speakers. We took a ohm reading at the back of the speaker on the terminals and got a reading of 3.3 ohms for both. He said that he expected to see a reading of 6.6. I think that we had the straps hooked up to connect the posts together. So, after he left I pulled the drivers out to try and check to see if anything was 'blown'. It seems to have checked out. I will be hooking them back up to my amp shortly.

I have been reading a little bit and it sounds like the only one that stands out is the mid horn reading of 11.4 ohm. I will be testing the other speaker today.

I have only tested one speaker so far but here are the results: Tweeter: 8.6 Ohms Mid: 11.4 Ohms Woofer 1: 6.0 Ohms Woofer 2: 5.8 Ohms Are these normal results? Especially the mid-range result? Should I test the crossover?

It looks like a nice setup! It's gotta be nice to watch movies at your place. Nice cars too! Whats faster in the 1/4, the Jeep or the Nissan?