Concertone Sub-Woofer

Has anyone's sub-woofer gone bad?

Mine was working fine before I stored it for the winter. Now, I have no base; just static.

TC

It sounds like it is blown.

It sure could be blown, but I would suspect the Concertone has failed.

John

Shocking, A concertone problem. I recently bought two units off the internet. They are so called factory pull outs. Ours has issues and I am hoping one of these will work. They were only $10.00 ea. so I thought I'd give a try before plan B. At least one came with a remote as DW didn't notice ours had fallen out and decided to open the slide and crush it like a pop can. Oh well.

Try messing with the wiring up at the sub. Mine didn't work when I got it and it took it apart to find a loose wire.

I think I'll do an inspection first. A loose wire makes more sense than a blown speaker, seeing as how it was working before I put it to bed for the winter. Then again, how does a wire work loose in a stored RV?

Concertones...

TC

May not be what your problem was but the topic was fitting. My sub woofer hasn't worked since I got it. Today I removed the grill and dropped down the speaker. Unplugged one set of the wires and it started working. turns out from the factory the concertone was hooked up with the + and - wires backwards on the one set so it was shorting out the whole time. It's now working excellent.

87CrewDually wrote:May not be what your problem was but the topic was fitting. My sub woofer hasn't worked since I got it. Today I removed the grill and dropped down the speaker. Unplugged one set of the wires and it started working. turns out from the factory the concertone was hooked up with the + and - wires backwards on the one set so it was shorting out the whole time. It's now working excellent.

Classic!!

Glad it's working now, no thanks to whoever did the wiring AND whoever did the quality control!!

TC

how does a wire work loose in a stored RV?

Must have worked lose on your way home. No reason for that except shoddy workmanship/design.

BobnPi wrote:

No reason for that except shoddy workmanship/design.

AMEN brother!! FR ought'a pony up, and replace all our piece of crap Concertones with whatever they have now. Can't be any worse. I know I'd bite. They could use it as a huge tax write-off.

TC

Mine was a wire also. According to FR remotes work on any unit.

TC wrote:

BobnPi wrote:

No reason for that except shoddy workmanship/design.

AMEN brother!! FR ought'a pony up, and replace all our piece of crap Concertones with whatever they have now. Can't be any worse. I know I'd bite. They could use it as a huge tax write-off.

TC

Don't want to highjack but it is related.
I just installed the new Genesis 3.0. I am so far very impressed with the versatility. I even have it linked to my BlackBerry through the blue tooth so I can play music and control the volume all from my phone. The system will even beep to let me know I have a call then I can answer the phone in stereo sound hands free. It has card slots and USB ports too. And an HDMI output for the TeleVision. My dealer contacted FR and replaced it for FREE. Well I installed it (I prefer it that way) which took a little to figure out. I had to add a jack for audio out of the TV to the Genesis and a coax jack for the ant/cable/sat hook up. On the Genesis, it is NOT a tuner like the old Concertone was. Channel changing is done through the TV. Also the Genesis remote is trainable, so you won't need 4 remotes, just the Genesis remote.
If you can't tell, I'm really pleased with the system and now opened a whole new attribute for the cat.
Also FYI: Concertone appears to be marketing the unit also. They call it a ZX800.
http://www.concertone.com/zx800.html

87CrewDually wrote:

TC wrote:

BobnPi wrote:

No reason for that except shoddy workmanship/design.

AMEN brother!! FR ought'a pony up, and replace all our piece of crap Concertones with whatever they have now. Can't be any worse. I know I'd bite. They could use it as a huge tax write-off.

TC

Don't want to highjack but it is related.
I just installed the new Genesis 3.0. I am so far very impressed with the versatility. I even have it linked to my BlackBerry through the blue tooth so I can play music and control the volume all from my phone. The system will even beep to let me know I have a call then I can answer the phone in stereo sound hands free. It has card slots and USB ports too. And an HDMI output for the TeleVision. My dealer contacted FR and replaced it for FREE. Well I installed it (I prefer it that way) which took a little to figure out. I had to add a jack for audio out of the TV to the Genesis and a coax jack for the ant/cable/sat hook up. On the Genesis, it is NOT a tuner like the old Concertone was. Channel changing is done through the TV. Also the Genesis remote is trainable, so you won't need 4 remotes, just the Genesis remote.
If you can't tell, I'm really pleased with the system and now opened a whole new attribute for the cat.
Also FYI: Concertone appears to be marketing the unit also. They call it a ZX800.
http://www.concertone.com/zx800.html

Hmmm, according to their website, they give $100 in trade for the old Concertone, how generous. That, however, still leaves a $600 bill for the new one...I DON"T THINK SO!! They can replace it for free or not at all. I wouldn't pay a red cent for anything that Concertone sells or represents.

TC

If FR would do the wood work and put in the new Jensen I would pop for half the cost. Cost being there cost.

Portagie1968 wrote:If FR would do the wood work and put in the new Jensen I would pop for half the cost. Cost being there cost.

I refuse to pinch you lest you wake up from this sweet, sweet dream.

TC

Roll another one just like the last one.

87CREWDUALLY, nice write up and congrats on the new unit. The positive feedback has been great and folks are generally very happy with the new features such as you have described.

Bob Fields wrote:87CREWDUALLY, nice write up and congrats on the new unit. The positive feedback has been great and folks are generally very happy with the new features such as you have described.

Thanks. Believe me I'm no kiss ass but I'll give credit where it's due. The system's features all work really well to date. The only tricky part was hooking it up because it does not have coax cable input. I made a custom wall plate for the RCA input(picture) and outputs(left/right sound) to the system. Also, the coax cable know goes to my wall plate and then directly to the television. I'll have to include some pictures so folks can understand.

New style radio that comes with 2 sub woofers. Guaranteed to have a howling good time.

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