Help Please!

Gonzonator
Gonzonator Posts: 18
edited February 2011 in Troubleshooting
Hello everyone, I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I have a center channel speaker, it has two 5 inch mid range/bass drivers and a tweeter. It seems that one of the drivers is producing lower volume than the other. I thought the driver was shot, but I switched them and the same side still sounds lower. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,552
    edited February 2011
    Some center channels are designed that way. What brand and model do you have?
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  • Gonzonator
    Gonzonator Posts: 18
    edited February 2011
    It is a B&W Dm600 IFS. I never knew that some center channels were designed like that. Is their a way to tell from the specs if it is supposed to perform this way? It is a older speaker that I bought second hand, I thought for sure something is wrong, but hope not. Thanks for any help
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,552
    edited February 2011
    I know nothing about that one, contact B&W.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited February 2011
    It's a cascaded crossover, it's fine. As Jesse mentioned, a lot of center channel speakers are designed that way.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited February 2011
    yep, Polk LSiC is the same way. if you check the specs, sometimes you will see 2 different crossover frequencies. One woofer is handling bass up to midrange, the other just does low frequencies with a lower cutoff.
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  • Gonzonator
    Gonzonator Posts: 18
    edited February 2011
    Hey thanks for your help. I did contact B&W and this is what they said: Hello and thank you for your email. The DM600IFS is considered a 2 ½ way speaker. This means that all three drivers will output different frequency ranges. This is normal operation. I'm still not sure I like the way it sounds, I had a Polk CS1 and a Boston Acoustic center speaker and they seemed to perform better. The only reason I switched was I wanted my front three to match, anyway at least the B&W is in good shape, thanks again.
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    It's a cascaded crossover, it's fine. As Jesse mentioned, a lot of center channel speakers are designed that way.
    Then IMO this is piss poor desiging :eek:
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