Is my subwoofer broken?

Ponzi

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On the inside of my subwoofer, i can see that one of the two cords is torn in half, so clearly the sub will not work. Is that fixable? And also, there is a tiny little hole in the subwoofer itself, will that affect the sound?
 

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It is probably broken, yes. If you can get to the cord, you could try to solder it back in place, but there are no guarantees. As for the hole - it probably isn't an issue, but it's hard to say for sure. What kind of sub is it?
 
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From your description one of the flexible wires that goes from the speaker solder tag terminals to the voice coil has torn away from the cone leaving a hole.

In that case it's a write-off
 

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Yeah I can get to the cord, so I guess I might as well try soldering it back together if that is was only option at the moment. And it is a 12" MTX Audio. Slightly old.
 

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From your description one of the flexible wires that goes from the speaker solder tag terminals to the voice coil has torn away from the cone leaving a hole.

In that case it's a write-off


Not quite...The cord itself is torn in half. It is not completly detatched by any means. And I am not exactly sure where the little hole came from, but I do not see that to be an issue in the future, anymore.