I love EV speakers.

We used them in our PA system and they were excellent performers and rarely gave us problems.

NO.... you should NEVER run any audio gear at 100% ...never.

If you select the gear so that you only push it 70% or so, it will last forever and you will rarely blow amps, speakers, or horns.

I have played in many loud bands and I can count on one hand all the speakers that were ever blown because we only ran the gear at 70% of what it could do.

EV and JBL are 2 excellent choices and we used both.

Very likely they opened the tweeter and found the coil to be burned indicating it was fried.

BTW: one day you will regret playing that loud.... trust me on this one.

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