Almost 50yr old me working out how to set up my ps3 to watch YouTube using my phone as a hotspot on the spare telly 
(well I didn’t work it out, some kid on YouTube told me how )
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My problem would be I wouldn’t understand the kid on YouTube either.
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YAY! My Alma Mater is now Numero Uno!!!
https://www.kdrv.com/news/ducks-claim-no-1-spot-in-college-football/article_da548274-8f13-11ef-b355-67da097aa184.html?
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I’m sure @SmilingOgre can appreciate this. Well, thought for sure I blew the sub amp, or the CAP, BUT, turns out in was just a bad RJ11 end instead. Now I just gotta re-sweep, re-gain, and re-eq it back into the system. Much better than pulling the seat LOL…
And yes, that’s (2) Boston Pro 8" subs, in a sealed 0.65 cu ft super tight box, w./ an RF Power 1001BD at about 600 watts per sub. SQ, no ground pounding.
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sounds like you got off sorta easy.
Replacing the cable will be easier than having to take the whole thing apart, fix it THEN re-calibrating.
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@Lostmarbles it did get a little involved, and I ended up dumping all of the head unit, and crossover settings, during the troubleshooting, knowing I would have to dump them back in. Got REAL lucky. I’ll take it.
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Hehe, luckily, I just crimped on a new RJ11 end. #ThankGod.
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I once had a buzzing in my rear deck speakers and couldn’t find what was causing it. I thought that maybe the wire caught a piece of metal and was causing a short so i rewired the whole thing. Found out it was the speaker was blown from the heat of the sun coming through the rear window. I went through three pairs of speakers in 1.5 years before just utilizing the door mounts. Desert sun is freakin’ brutal.
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@Lostmarbles that’s the worst, and I have been there, done that. I was not only building systems, but also repairing them as well, and WOW, the stuff you see. And I’m not talking about not using door mounts, but absolute CRAP installs. Ground faults aplenty comes to MY mind, and my PTSD is kicking in. I think my ALL TIME FAV, would be an install that the client paid WAYY too much for, problems with the bass amps (and more), and after almost tearing out the install, found (3) 4ga. wires off of a fused distribution hub, on the hot side, but the ground was believe it or not, a SINGLE 12ga ground, to a rusted seatbelt bolt.
Needless to say, TOTAL re-wire. Your fragged speaker story is funny, mostly because I have had that happen to me.
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BANE of my existence, literally. I couldn’t count on my hands and fingers how many in line “suppressors” I saw installed, trying to choke down “whine” from a botched install.
I switched to only hi-volt competition head units, and over-engineered RCA’s (and speaker wire) to stop the bleeding.
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Oh hell ya!!! Definitely a preferred failure mode if such a thing exists.
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My workmate babysat a friend’s car for a couple of weeks and was happily driving it all over town. I waited a couple of days to ask her if she had noticed the license frame 
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Holy shit!
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I forgot to put this up @Lostmarbles . The RJ11 connector was fragged out.
I think the Bostons cracked it lol.
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Still testing, + 6 dB …
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Glad you got yourself rolling all proper-like. Nothing worse than driving around with your tunes being off,
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I know, and that’s the second batch I got out. I think the first one was even bigger.
Most of it is out. There still a lot of that stuff under the tiles, but I can’t get to that.
If I just keep it up and get out the weeds before they take over again it’ll be fine.
That’s the mistake I made the first time, I let it slide. My wrists were hurting and I had no energy left.
I just have to get a lot of plants in there so there is no space for more weeds.
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