SDA 1A internal wiring changes???

groovelation
groovelation Posts: 16
edited March 2004 in Speakers
Okay, I've noticed that some people have talked about re-configured their SDA 1A's internal wiring. What if any benefits result from this? I am using the speakers as conventional left and right without the connection cable running between so what is the optimal internal wiring configuration to use this way? Also, should I leave the demensional tweeter off? Any and all responses are welcome...Thanks!
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited March 2004
    Not sure what they meant by re-configure the internal wiring.

    Replacing the internal wiring is a good idea if the cables have oxydized.

    Maurice
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Are you running them "conventionally" by choice?
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • groovelation
    groovelation Posts: 16
    edited March 2004
    i am running them in standard stereo because i like a two channel sound. i have not tried them with the connection wire and probably would not enjoy it as much...i mean these speakers do a great job of filling the room while still letting you pinpoint the instruments. doesn't the soundstage get all out of wack when you hook the speakers together?
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Don't know what you listen to, but with very few exceptions I'd have to answer:

    Out of whack? No...

    Bigger? Yes.
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,723
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by groovelation
    doesn't the soundstage get all out of wack when you hook the speakers together?

    NO! The soundstage becomes as real as possible with greater width and depth, you'll really fill your room with music. You'll still be able to pinpoint the instruments too, but with greater accuracy.
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  • gshisme
    gshisme Posts: 1,038
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by F1nut
    NO! The soundstage becomes as real as possible with greater width and depth, you'll really fill your room with music. You'll still be able to pinpoint the instruments too, but with greater accuracy.

    Absolutely!

    groove, hook that interconnect up pronto! Let us know what ya think.
    suds, suds and more suds!
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  • groovelation
    groovelation Posts: 16
    edited March 2004
    going by the last responses i need to try hooking the speakers together, But, i don't have the innerconnect or the manual with info on how to properly set things up..HELP!!!!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,723
    edited March 2004
    Contact Ken Swauger at Polk Customer Service. He will be able to sell you the cable and provide a manual.
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  • groovelation
    groovelation Posts: 16
    edited March 2004
    why should i buy a cable when i may not like the results? is there a way to hook up the speakers with ordinary wire to see what i'm missing or does the polk cable have special properties?
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited March 2004
    Trust what these guys are saying and get a cable man. I used to have a set of srs 2 and the difference with cable as opposed to with out is nothing short of just jaw dropping soundstage.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,723
    edited March 2004
    JHC, I'm done here!!! :rolleyes:
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • groovelation
    groovelation Posts: 16
    edited March 2004
    Don't take this wrong, but, music and sound is a very personnal matter and if I took the advice of everyone who said "This is the sound you want" I might have a room full of Martin Logan speakers driven by Krell amps.(sorry logan and krell owners) I prefer to let MY own ears tell me the TRUTH. You guys and/or gals may have the best of intentions and I may find that indeed the SDA's sound better with the cable between, but, don't just assume that everyone else will like what you like. This hobby is about personnal enjoyment isn't it? You also have to wonder why in the HI-FI high end business and even with Polk there are very few speakers that alter the sound source in the way that the SDA's do. Maybe it's not as real and desireable as first thought. Something to think about? Peace and happy listening...
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited March 2004
    You came here for advice on how to improve your SDA and now when they give you the advice, you're all, "Sound is very personal. Don't just assume that everyone else will like what you like." You either want advice or you don't.

    Why do I get the feeling this is a troll who created a new username to play games?
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  • groovelation
    groovelation Posts: 16
    edited March 2004
    you play your games...i'll hook my spendors back up and enjoy..tata
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited March 2004
    Why would you not use the cable? Polk designed them to be used with it for an intended purpose ( to cancel cross talk). You really would not be altering the sound as you say, you would only improve what you are already hearing by canceling unwanted and undesirable crosstalk. I just do not understand for life of me why you would not at least want to give the cable some audiance and give it a try? Hell they don't cost that much so you would not be that much out of pocket and definantly not breaking the bank. I bet if you buy that cable and you hook it up and do not like what you hear that someone here on the board would take it off your hands, or for that matter there are some out there in ebay land that could use one.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    WTH is a "spendor"???

    groovetube,
    All we are urging you to do is try the IC. If you truly have 1A's, the blade - blade SDA IC it uses is ery strightforward. Then as long as you are using a common ground amp you're good to go.
    More later,
    Tour...
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    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited March 2004
    Those that don't know, don't know they don't know.

    Nothing to see here, move along.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    Those that don't know, don't know they don't know.

    Nothing to see here, move along.


    Cluless? Seems to fit here also russ.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited March 2004
    I can't believe what I just read... ****!

    HBomb
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Aw hell... now Henry's having Bastogne flashbacks again...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited March 2004
    :D

    1/4twin
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,723
    edited March 2004
    Can you believe this idiot......:rolleyes:

    http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1079183327
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited March 2004
    What an effin dickhead.

    This guy wouldn't know good sound if it fell out of the sky and crushed him.

    'Spendors', give me a break.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited March 2004
    If you don't like the effect then just resell it here or on e-bay, then think about rewiring.

    Even though it came from the horse's mouth, I didn't like the answer, so I asked a goat.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    That was so baaaaaaaaad... I had to laugh...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
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    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,723
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by gidrah

    Even though it came from the horse's mouth, I didn't like the answer, so I asked a goat.

    Gold Jerry Gold!!!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited March 2004
    a friggen goat??? and again ****:D

    HBomb
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2004
    SDA cable with no manual or SDA cable

    Stick one wire in the top hole on each speaker, another on the bottom. If it sounds like crap, reverse the connection on a speaker. Still sounds like crap, pull the wires and don't mess with it anymore.
    Edit:
    Nevermind, saw the augdiogon thread...

    (If anyone knows if the wires go top to top or bottom to bottom, let me know, just for reference)

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2004
    Geez.. don't yell.

    James,
    Not sure the info does you anygood as you have 1B's which I'm thinking are pin-blade vs. the 1A's blade -blade.

    If I recall correctly from an old thread here somewhere:
    - in the pin - blade IC's both wires are electrically active; and
    - in the blade - blade only one is active and the other is for suport; I want to say it's the top blade that's active.
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2004
    No, the 1B's are blade-blade (or at least mine are). It was more of a curiousity question than anything.
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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