now that im thinking about it and its not like 3 in the morning and my brain is working a lil bit, i want you to check a few things, take the speaker out of the box and put low volume power to it, once you got it hooked up then gently wiggle/move the tensile lead comming off the lugs. if you start to hear music it could be a loose tensile lead. its easy to fix if its on the lug side, but if its on the vc side you will have to remove the dust cap to be able to resolder those leads...

 

I can't see the VC. The spider is intact and looks fine to me.

 

I really appreciate the help.
I've already done step 1, the leads seem fine. So it must be on the VC side? How do you remove the dust cap?

 

Usually you can take a razor blaze and very very carefully cut through the glue and get it off, but I can't say for sure for your specific woofer. Some woofers don't have a dustcap as it's integral to the cone. I would get an ohmmeter and verify resistance before you start cutting up a woofer for possibly no reason.

Is it under warranty?

 

Looking at pics of your woofer, I don't think I'd try cutting that off. You might want to take it to a speaker repair shop or send it back to Boston to fix it, even if it's not covered under warranty.

 

to be honest with you once a subwoofer gets in that state wher there is seperation of the coil connections there really isn't a way to repair he subwoofer correctly. I have seen this happen numerous times and to be honest you will need to purchase a new subwoofer because most of the time the company is not going to warranty that unless the store you purchased it through will warranty it, biggie5252 i would agree he should try to contact boston and see about a repair most time when they get to that stage they will not be able to repair it to like new condition-JOEYD

 

+++ i as well see this happen ALL the time

if you are playing your music and it only starts to hit when you actually push on the speaker itself, say goodbye to your sub. something probably seperated at the coil or a connection internally. a lot of times it will cost just as much to fix your sub than to replace it. it may be just one big headache. depending on where you are located, you may have to pay to ship it somewhere to fix, you can try and get it fixed, but it will never be as good as new and at that point is it worth it?

 

when you pushed to sub in and it felt crunchy, were you pushing on the side of the cone or the center of the dustcap?