Bad sounding MW-6500 in Monitor 7
Polaris26
Posts: 10
Hello all,
I have a vintage pair of Monitor 7's with the Peerless tweeters. When I got them years ago, I didn't know anything about old Polk speakers. One of the woofers was bad (probably frozen), so I ordered a replacement for it, I think directly from Polk but I don't remember (I guess this was when you could still get them from Polk). The replacement worked ok, but it never sounded right to me - not like the other speaker in the pair anyway. The mids are a little colored, sort of nasal sounding, and there is noticably less bass output. I decided recently to take the driver back out and see what model it was. What I found was a label with the last digit in the model number whited out and a 'zero' written over it by hand in ink. The other speaker system of the pair has an original MW-6500 in it (dated to 1979).
I am wondering if anyone else has seen this, and if maybe I got the wrong driver?
Dave
I have a vintage pair of Monitor 7's with the Peerless tweeters. When I got them years ago, I didn't know anything about old Polk speakers. One of the woofers was bad (probably frozen), so I ordered a replacement for it, I think directly from Polk but I don't remember (I guess this was when you could still get them from Polk). The replacement worked ok, but it never sounded right to me - not like the other speaker in the pair anyway. The mids are a little colored, sort of nasal sounding, and there is noticably less bass output. I decided recently to take the driver back out and see what model it was. What I found was a label with the last digit in the model number whited out and a 'zero' written over it by hand in ink. The other speaker system of the pair has an original MW-6500 in it (dated to 1979).
I am wondering if anyone else has seen this, and if maybe I got the wrong driver?
Dave
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That is odd indeed....
I can't say for certain whether or not that is an actual MW6500 but label-wise it doesn't look like any that I have see. The inked in number seems rather suspect.Sounds good to me... -
The MW6500 in one of my Monitor 7Bs is bad. Will the MW6502 I am looking at on eBay work? I read somewhere that the impedence was different -- with the MW6502 having 3.52 ohms and the MW6500 being 7.75 ohms.
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No, it will not work.Political Correctness'.........defined
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@Bill97 - I had an MW6502 in one of my 10A's when purchased. It was far different from the other one with (correct) MW6500's and not good.Expect that there will be bumps in the road. Choose to not let them rattle you.
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