Tom Adams Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Please, please, PLEASE..........DO NOT DO THIS!! Man-oh-man........I am so screwed. This past weekend, for whatever crazy reason I placed my Cornwalls' compression drivers in a decompression chamber and now I have no sound at all. Man....that pisses me off. OTOH, why in the hell doesn't Klipsch affix a warning label of some sort letting you know about this?? Seems to me they should share some culpability. Hmmmm......may have to look into legal remedy. Hey Jeff Mathews.....can you help me?? Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Were you scuba diving with them? If that's the case, you should've used a diving Belle instead. Have you tried playing any highly compressed music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 ummmm....why in the world were you putting speakers into a decompression chamber? lol Compression drivers are called that because the space behind the driver is sealed - acting as an acoustic spring. Putting the speaker into a decompression chamber probably sucked the diaphragm right out (because the pressure of air behind the driver would expand with a decreasing pressure in front of the diaphragm). You should be able to have a new diaphragm installed which isn't that expensive. I think Bob Crites does this for squakers too? I know he does it on tweeters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I used a squawker horn lens as a funnel once...still works fine for me.[6] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Ditto Who's question. Why on Earth?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Adams Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 Were you scuba diving with them? If that's the case, you should've used a diving Belle instead. Have you tried playing any highly compressed music? You silly git.....that's why I put them in the decompression chamber in the first place. Because the music was highly compressed!! Listen - if you guys can't help me. Why bother responding. Sheesh.....better I go over to the Bose board. Now THOSE guys really know their as* from a hole in the ground. [] [] [] [] [] Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Send an e-mail or PM to Thebes. He can write a sonnet for the occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travisc Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 looney tunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 lol, I can't tell if he's joking or serious...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Shmoe Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Oh he's joking..... [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelerFan Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Thanks for the warning Tom. I was just about to try the same thing with my Forte II's. Thanks to you I'll avoid the decompression chamber. Maybe they are just posessed by an evil spirit, so I'll try an exorcism instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-MAN Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Thanx from me too. Now I'm looking for a repression to put mine in. Or an impression, if one is handy. DM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkin Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I hate when I do that!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 this is called a joke now laugh guys. BTW a decompression chamber does not have low pressure, it has high pressure acting like the ocean (deeper you go the more pressure exerted on your body). Decompression chambers repressurize your body and slowly decompresses over time. That is why scuba divers rise to the surface slowly in deep dives, the benz (not the car) is a phenomenon where its like soda. The more pressure exerted on your body the more it is capable of carrying oxygen or air, when you come up too fast its like a shaken soda, it fizzles. That is fine for a soda but the air mostly nitrogen and oxygen bubble and anyone can tell you getting bubbles in injections causes massive strokes, pulmonary atery, heart attacks, etc. Hence you have about 10 minutes once you come up too fast to get in the chamber. Also I forgot to mention the deeper you go the more oxygen your bodies needs, kinda the opposite of mountain climbing where your body thickens aclimatizing where the pressure is low. Also the benz does not affect people inside submarines or deep divers that go down too fast and do not use scuba gear. And navy divers use helium mixed gases for dives deeper than 200 feet that replaces the nitrogen and some oxygen so as to not get the benz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg928gts Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I like my benz. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 benz there -- done that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efzauner Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I never had a benz, did own a bmw though, after i did a lot of bmw (bus-metro-walk) in university. I do think that the bmw took the bends better than b-m-w. I tell you, just sue the hell out of Klipsch, get treble dammages, millions of dollars! They need to put warning labels on them. Just like McDonalds had to put warnings on coffee saying not to dump it in your lap because it is hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 oh and the wetfloor sign didn't have it in every foreign laguage. I happen to know randmcnally language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customsteve01 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Don't get started on the wet floor sign that is more of a tripping hazard than the wet floor. The ones in the building that I work in never get put away so you would never know if the floor was wet or not. Tom, just make sure you don't ever put your corns in a vacum. It will uncompress your compresors. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Adams Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 Good news guys (and man-oh-man am I relieved)......my compression drivers are working again. WHEW.... As you may recall (before some of you went slip sliding away on a floor), my drivers got decompressed in a decompression chamber. Which, BTW, caused me to be depressed. So anyhow....I'm in the garage picking my nose and listening to some disco music when I hear this noise across the street. I go take a look and my neighbor is using an air ratchet to take the rims off his Yugo. Hang with me and don't get ahead of me. So I go over and ask him if he'd give me a blow. Man....did he give me a look. So I told him that I wasn't like that and that I was talking about my decompressed compression drivers. I figured some compressed air would negate (just learned that word yesterday and it's so cool to use) the decompression of my compression drivers and negate (see - used it again) my depression. So he gave me a blow - with his compressor. I am beyond happy now. BTW, those guys over on the Bose forum couldn't help me for sh*t. But they did know how to blow. Have an ordinary day. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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