Carver Silvers

prds7564
prds7564 Posts: 7
edited July 2012 in Vintage Speakers
Help my Silvers sound terrible I am sure I am not doing something right.Just bought them with new woofers and rebuilt ribbons.Hooked them up and almost started X-over on fire!!!No I am not joking.So I Bi Amped them with no improvement in sound just less smoke.At 40 watts the 12's distort, the ribbons don't at 40 watts but I am afraid I am going to damage these Loudspeakers.They look great but sound terrible!!! Are these speakers capable of rocking?I am not new to audio but maybe I am just missing something.Please somebody tell me I am doing something wrong and these speakers will be OK.I am powering them with 150 watts lows and 150 watts highs with active X-over at 150 Hz.I understand they require a break in period.But I am afraid there wont be anything left after 20-40 hrs.

Help!!!!!!!
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited June 2012
    Other then an amp with a dc voltage, not sure why a crossover would smoke. Does everything sound ok with some other speakers?

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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited June 2012
    Sounds like you have something crossed up in the wiring.

    What are you powering them with? Not just wattage actual name of item powering them.
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  • prds7564
    prds7564 Posts: 7
    edited July 2012
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Other then an amp with a dc voltage, not sure why a crossover would smoke. Does everything sound ok with some other speakers?

    Yes I have been using this same system for years with a nice set of four 12-TR cerwin vegas and four carvin 15" subs with great performance. Something has me suspicious of the 12" replacement drivers in the silvers dynovox WP1220 these woofers do not have any numbers stamped anywhere does anybody have experiance with these componants I sure would thank you for your info.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,561
    edited July 2012
    It would be best if you had only one thread, ask one of the mods to combine them.

    Anyway, I asked you a bunch of questions in your other thread.
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