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Topic: UK Cinemas- "Davidoff Cool Water" advert issues
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Tony Bandiera Jr
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posted 01-21-2012 11:55 AM
quote: Steve R Pike .....The issue we have had is that it appears that the ad's sound levels have been mixed way too high and, thus, has damaged some of our sound equipment.....
Steve, welcome to the forum. You'll learn a lot here.
Now some questions to try to help you out a bit...
What damage to the equipment did you experience? Blown amplifiers, blown woofers, blown high frequency drivers, etc.
I can tell you from over 30 years of tech experience that a properly designed sound system can safely reach "ear-splitting" levels without damage.
There is always of course random failures, and drivers that rot out or were pushed really hard in the past and then one peak spike send them bye-bye.
Try to give us more details, including all brands and models of amps and speakers, cinema processor and so forth..the more info, the better odds we can help you better.
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Randy Stankey
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posted 04-08-2012 11:38 AM
There was only one time when I saw a theater sound system actually blow speakers that weren't due to an amplifier malfunction.
It was at the Cinemark theater at Military Circle in Norfolk, VA. At that time their two big auditoriums had these three-way electronic crossovers from JBL. You enter the model of the speaker into the front panel and the device sends the correct signal to each speaker. All very spiffy.
However, some of the kids got to tinkering with the things and ended up routing all the signals to the wrong speakers. If that's not bad enough, they decided to have a midnight movie party and they played "The Fast and the Furious" with the volume turned up to "11."
Well, the speakers didn't make it through the first race scene.
Guess who had to hike his fat ass up a ladder and onto a three foot wide platform, 25 feet in the air, behind the screen to change all six of those blown drivers? Moi! That's who!
If I ever get my hands on the little cocksuckers that did that, their asses are grass!
Now, like others have said, speakers with old cones and surrounds can sometimes shred but, technically, that's not a "blown" speaker.
Shredded cones are repairable, by the way...
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