[HKman]

My friend asked me to have a look at his Klipsch RF 600 home theatre speaker. His kids were using it for karaoke and now one of the woofers is acting up.

I took out the woofer and pushed it down. I could hear a metallic crunching sound. The speaker itself has no visible cosmetic defects. Any idea what this could be? I'm not an expert at all.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

That driver in the speaker is blown. That crunchy metal sound is the indicator that it's blown. Normally the inner parts of the speaker stay suspended in a magnetic field. When the speaker is working properly in its travel excursion there is no metal to metal contact. But when a speaker is blown or overworked beyond its excursion limits this travel becomes sloppy and metal to metal contact happens. That driver needs replaced.