RTA15TL MW's with extra donut magnets

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    Either way, he's never sonically heard a difference so is this really an issue? He didn't even know they were there until he investigated. Why is everything on Club Polk so difficult? It would be different if this was the Skunk Works department....but it's far from it. DK and TFLF are the only people to really go out of the box here.

    Remove them, replace them, reglue them, swap them, modify the xovers to compensate for the bucking magnets, modify your room to compensate for the waxing and waning of the moon, etc. It just never ends and is not that hard to choose something simple.

    Brgman - Cool thread :smile: Good luck.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,251
    edited January 2011
    Take em off throw them in a box and move on.... Put em back together and put em to use..
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Either way, he's never sonically heard a difference so is this really an issue? He didn't even know they were there until he investigated. Why is everything on Club Polk so difficult? It would be different if this was the Skunk Works department....but it's far from it. DK and TFLF are the only people to really go out of the box here.

    Remove them, replace them, reglue them, swap them, modify the xovers to compensate for the bucking magnets, modify your room to compensate for the waxing and waning of the moon, etc. It just never ends and is not that hard to choose something simple.

    Brgman - Cool thread :smile: Good luck.
    Dude what up with the fixation with making everything 'simple'?You have spouted this verbiage in a number of threads regarding how the members here are over complicating things.(yet you say great thread)It's a frickin audio forum so sometimes minute technical details will be discussed.Feel free to ignore posts if they are too complicated or are not from one of the only two individuals in whom you feel posts have merit,and leave us to our foolishness.:wink:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    FTGV wrote: »
    Dude what up with the fixation with making everything 'simple'?You have spouted this verbiage in a number of threads regarding how the members here are over complicating things.(yet say great thread)It's a frickin audio forum so sometimes minute technical details will be discussed.Feel free to ignore posts if they are too complicated or are not from one of the only two individuals in whom you feel posts have merit,and leave us to our foolishness.:wink:

    I often say great thread because its at least not a bunch of arguments and useless discussions about how big your Polk member is, in regards to SDA soundstage....or cables.

    However, this place never ceases to over complicate the simple things and offer suggestions for items that were never mentioned by the original poster, OP for those that shorten everything possible. Sure, everyone is just trying to help....blah blah....and maybe I'll mention something that hasn't been suggested. That's quite possible but unlikely given the historical content here on certain subjects, especially SDA for example. No one uses the search engine anymore.

    A classic Polk example is...."I would like to know what kind of AVR I can get fro $200 and I've narrowed it down to 2, Pionoeer and Onkyo. What are your thoughts?".....Polkie "I suggest the upcoming Pass Labs AVR for $4000 if you really want to get the best from your Polk speakers.". You get the idea as I'm sure since you can read it every 3 months in one way or another.

    The search engine here sucks **** and most quit after a couple failed searches. I don't blame them one bit but its almost as if zero effort happens anymore. The winner in this, oddly enough, is our forum because we have such a diverse group of members that its fairly easy to ind the information you seek. That's not common, and I assure you, I'm everywhere when it comes to audio forums. THAT'S cool, but....

    When you get a few years under your belt, you may understand some basic frustration as it pertains to here, the depths of Polk Audio. And no, I'm not talking about post count, just time reading threads. I read more than I post and that's a good thing because I'm too hot headed to be involved in everything and everybody's business anyways. There are much cooler heads to handle these issues but sometimes I get overwhelmed.

    Too complicated? Please. Feel free to teach me something and I LOVE foolishness more than ever now....to a point.

    It just seems that everything has to be over discussed to the point that even less decision is actually made. I thought this was a grassroots forum, where we shoot from the hip, did things against the grain, middle finger to normalcy....it reads more like we cant do anything without getting a handjob from 10 members anymore.
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  • dcoil
    dcoil Posts: 153
    edited January 2011
    Wow, bucking magnet?:confused: I learn something new everytime I read this forum. Now I know what it's for and how it should be installed.:cool:
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Too complicated? Please.
    As in too complicated for your simplistic sensibilities,not your knowledge base.
    Feel free to teach me something
    Nope I'm certain this newb has nothing for you there.

    On a different note is speaker wire sold by the foot?:smile:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    FTGV wrote: »
    As in too complicated for your simplistic sensibilities,not your knowledge base.Nope I'm certain this newb has nothing for you there.

    On a different note is speaker wire sold by the foot?:smile:

    LOL I'm not sure that has been closed yet. You're not a newb FTGV and I'm no guru, so unless your capacitor is bigger than mine, we should be pretty even.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    "Bucking magnets are used to reduce the stray magnetic field of a woofer. This will allow you to put the woofer closer to a CRT TV screen. The magnet is glued to the back of the existing magnet system with the magnets repelling each other. When the magnet are centered, the magnetic field will cancel and it will be possible to glue the magnet on."
    In all my Googling, I never turned up a source as clear and certain as this. Most of what showed were forum threads as, if not more, scattershot as this one.

    For some reason this thread brought this to mind…


    Is that Big Ted at the 1:27 mark?
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited January 2011
    Tour2ma wrote: »
    In all my Googling, I never turned up a source as clear and certain as this. Most of what showed were forum threads as, if not more, scattershot as this one.

    For some reason this thread brought this to mind…


    Is that Big Ted at the 1:27 mark?

    That is clip incredibly funny, and on the mark.
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  • greyford1979
    greyford1979 Posts: 749
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    LOL I'm not sure that has been closed yet. You're not a newb FTGV and I'm no guru, so unless your capacitor is bigger than mine, we should be pretty even.

    I always enjoy reading your posts, usually end up with a big grin on my face lol:biggrin:
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