gregarious Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 After recently purchasing a pair of KG 5.5's, I discovered that a woofer in one had a voice coil rub. Over the weeks, it got worse. I looked into repairing it myself, and unfortuantely just ended up making it worse, likely beyond the point of anyone's repair. Currently, the woofer makes midrange and lower tones in movies and music sound awful. Since I am otherwise more than pleased with the speakers, I am planning to find a used but working woofer to replace it with. Until I make the two hour drive into the twin cities to a speaker store, however, I am curious if it is ok to just leave the bad woofer unhooked and continue to use the speaker. I have no electrical engineering knowledge, and am unsure if leaving the one woofer unplugged will cause the other one to get damaging levels of current. I don't want to have two woofers to replace, but from what I could tell, when I unplugged the bad one, it just sounded like twice the sound came out of the good one.Thanks in advance for help on what may seem like a dumb question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedball Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I don't know why not and if it's like my 4.2's it will be very easy to replace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Automojo Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I'm sure you can get a new woofer from Klipsch, I would think a used one would be difficult to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chacodude Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 You have probably solved your problem by now. After a few years, one of my woofers had the to come loose. On inspection, it looked like it just didn't get a 360 degree glue run. Why it started rattling after a few years (I bought my KG5.5's new) puzzled me but it was the case. I had already torn the speaker apart looking for a bent voice coil the way it acted so the damage was not repairable and was far out of warranty by then. Long story short, just call Klipsch customer service. They will send you another woofer. It runs right around $100 each. Never noticed anything by just replacing one in my speakers, no mismatch or the like. Hope this helps! Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregarious Posted April 4, 2009 Author Share Posted April 4, 2009 Thanks for all the help. I found a used k-1023-k woofer in mint condition in Minneapolis for $50 and installed it a while ago. Everything is back together and sounding great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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