speakers really distorting now

[firebird49er]

hey guys, this is gonna be a kinda long post. about a week ago when going home i notice my front driver side speaker is out. on the same trip home i stop and put gas, then when i get back in my subs are out!. when i got home i checked if the amp was 'protecting' itself (the red light comes on) but it wasn't, and the fuses were fine, actually no lights were coming on the amp. well it was late so i left it for the next day. next day driving home again and speakers still out, but i raise the volume and notice its REALLY distorting at higher volumes, like its a cd and it sounded like a bad radio station, alot of interference, and after a certain volume all the audio would just cut out. so i get home and check it out, and find the a part of the remote wire was exposed and grounding itself out on the metal cage for the cdplayer. taped it up and subs come back on. but, my speakers still sound a little distorted at low volumes, and at high volumes get same interference, like a bad radio station. i've been playing with it, and if i fade to just on side of the car, like just the front or back speakers, the interference is alot less, still there but not really bad. but when i put the fader back to the middle so all speakers are on, it gets really bad. I'm REALLY hoping its just the speakers as i was planning on buying new ones soon anyways, but i get a really bad feeling its the cdplayer. can anyone help? i've checked all the wires again and nothing is exposed anymore. the subs work perfect, just the car speakers that are distorted, and they work fine at regular levels. i know i don't need to be cranking it up but that was the whole point of buying subs!! if anyone has ANY ideas please post.

[nda0602v6]

Need a little more info: Are you powering the front door speakers and rear passenger seat speakers off your Cd-player? or.. are they being powered off a separate amp you installed? or... are they being powered by your car's factory (monsoon) amp? (do you have the monsoon system?) (I know you're using 1 amp for sure to run the subs.) Also, are the door speakers and rear passenger speakers still factory?

Its possible that the factory speakers (if that's what they still are) blew because you were driving them to hard to keep up with the subs. Kinda easy to do because if your subs are kicking out tons of deep bass, you're really not going to notice or hear distortion coming out the factory speakers. Over time heavy distortion eventually fries speakers. I've noticed that even a blown speaker will still work at low volumes but its going to sound like crap (crack, pop, buzz, fart, etc... lol) once you start applying any power.

Not sure what to suggest doing other than triple checking your wiring behind your Cd-player to make sure no bare wires are touching anything. Maybe another thing you could do is try to get a hold of a good car speaker (one you know for sure is good) and temporarily wire it up to the back of your cd-player. Try each channel on the cd-player and see if the donor speaker distorts. If it plays good then that would help you determine if your cd-player is good or bad.

[pontiac nino]

sounds like you blew a speaker to be honest I have the same prob. w/ the passenger side one it sounds ok at a minimum volume but if you turn it up or the bass hits you get some nasty distortion.

can also be a crossover if you have one that is causing a short circuit that will make you speakers sound distorted.

[Vyse]

Are you using the CD players internal amp? If your speakers are blown listen for a rattling or squeaking noise. It's unmistakable. Distortion at high volume could be due to your head unit clipping. If you really want to let it all hang out, you might think about going with some more system power and some new speakers. Give yourself a little more headroom so to speak.

[firebird49er]

the front speakers are stock, the backseat speakers aren't. the stock radio said monsoon system on it but not sure if it has a seperate amp or not, i'm just running the speakers with the cdplayer. and they all sounded fine before, they only sounded like this after the remote wire was grounding with the cage. i was playing with the cdplayer and i think its the cdplayer clipping. i notice that it'll clip when the loud parts of songs come on. think that remote wire grounding itself blew somethign out inside. but then the subs sound fine. like, its hard to explain, but when the speakers go out, the subs are still playing perfectly, so for like a second all u hear is the bass with no music. this weekend i will find my old cdplayer and pop it back in (both sonys so its the same harness), and borrow a speaker from someone mometarily to check it out. to clarify on the distortion, it doesn't sound like when u turn it up loud, it just sounds like a distant radio station that its trying to tune into. then when the song comes to the loud parts, it clips, the door and rear speakers just cut out with only the bass still playing. anyways, i'll check everything out possibly thursday and cross my fingers its not the cd player (expensive *** cd player)

[firebird49er]

just an update. finally figured out the problem. the front driver side speaker was gone and i guess causing all the problems. took it out and all the problems went away. guess the cutting out and the distortion was just the cdplayer protecting itself or something.