Can you smell your speakers when youre rockin out?


Lol, I know this a funny question, but whenever I'm listening at loud volumes, I can smell my speakers. It's always the same smell no matter what speakers I've had. It's not a burning smell, more like the insulation used in the boxes. Is it the air blowing through the insulation and then out the port, or cooked voicecoils? Like I said, it doesn't smell like burning electronics but I 'm not sure what it is. It kind of smells good; like new rubber in a bike shop or race gas smells to me. It's the association of good times :-)
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No I can't. Perhaps your pushing your speakers too hard or are have a peculiar nuerological disorder? Ozone maybe?

The synthetic Ferrofluid  would have to engineered to burn at a very high temp.  I agree it is highly likely that a high temperature burning point was chosen. 

However there are other sealants varnishes etc, that may have been  put on the voice coil.  Some of my older speakers seem to have something like that put on the wire, making some boiling/burning/ outgassing a real possibility.