JBL Mexico quality control

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Brian jojade

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Today I took shipment of a pair of SRX728 sub cabinets, brand new. I rolled one over and heard a rattling from inside the cabinet. Odd, being that it was brand new. So I popped off the handle, and reach inside to find a piece of heavy wire, about twice as thick as a coat hanger, about 18 inches long with 90 degree bends in it. Looking at it closely, it has paint overspray on it. I'm thinking it was used as a hanger when the cabinet got sprayed with its coating and broke off inside the cabinet somehow.

With the size of this chunk floating around the cabinet, I can only imagine the potential for damage to the cone had I not found it! Yikes.
 
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It's not a sub. It's a giant maraca. It could be worse. There could have been empty Corona bottles inside.

Greg
 
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Greg Cameron said:
It's not a sub. It's a giant maraca. It could be worse. There could have been empty Corona bottles inside.

Greg
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It could be worse. I once owned a loudspeaker manufacturing company and went to a trade show in Beijing, China where we were an exhibitor along with my distributor. At these shows there were no rules about sound levels so everyone just blasted as much as they wanted. You can only imagine the horror! While all this was going on I noticed that there was a cabinet that really had some strange things going on with it. It rattled fiercely on the low end and just sounded strange sometimes. So after 2 days I had to check it out. After taking the cabinet apart - screw by screw - I found a very large hammer in it - standing up straight. I guess my QC sucked at the factory that made it at (in the USA by the way). Can you imagine finding that in your cabinet?... Oh yeah.. I did take apart a few more cabinets to see if there was anything else and guess what?... I found a crescent wrench in another box. WTF? Needless to say I fired the company that made my line. No fears guys. It was mostly exported stuff.
 
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Mark Herman said:
So after 2 days I had to check it out. After taking the cabinet apart - screw by screw - I found a very large hammer in it - standing up straight. I guess my QC sucked at the factory that made it at (in the USA by the way). Can you imagine finding that in your cabinet?... Oh yeah.. I did take apart a few more cabinets to see if there was anything else and guess what?... I found a crescent wrench in another box. WTF?.
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Sadly, surgeons have been known to leave instruments inside of patients from time to time, not to mention operating on the wrong thing. It really could be worse ;)

Greg
 
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OK. But you have to admit finding your own mistakes is extra weird. Oh, and another one in the same batch is even more weird. Makes you think about all the others... Guess what ... when I went to the factory that made the mistakes, I showed them the pictures of the hammer and wrench and ripped up the invoice. Their response was ... the big sucking sound. They were out of biz a few months later.
 
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Recently bought 4 SRX712M wedgies. Worked fine until last weekend when one refused to go (passive mode). It just so happened that this time I was using them on sticks due to a crowded stage, hence was using the speakons at the end without the switch - The JBL geniuses had wired one of those speakons bass-ackwards (active wooffer & passive to 2+,2- and active horn to 1+,1-). Why the FUCK don't they have a cap to protect the horn in active mode anyway - that surely is speaker making 101.
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Greg Cameron said:
Sadly, surgeons have been known to leave instruments inside of patients from time to time, not to mention operating on the wrong thing. It really could be worse ;)

Greg
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It is standard nowadays for the surgeon to list blood loss (in mL), and to mention that the sponge, needle, and instrument counts were all correct on the report. :smile:
 
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I had the new JBL PRX635's purchased from my local Sam Ash. One of the unit's midrange didn't work straight out the box. They were the last two in stock and I didn't want to wait for a replacement unit to arrive so I opened it up to investigate the problem myself. Both midrange leads were disconnected from the midrange and the terminal clips needed to be re-crimped just to stay on the speaker leads. As far as usage, both units thermalled from nominal usage 2 nights in a row and I noticed that their amps get so hot, you can fry bacon on them.

Both speakers were returned and I ended up getting what I should have been shooting for all along... EV QRX 212/75's.
 
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