Free Audioengine A5 speaker pair - amp not working
Kurt300
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Audioengine kindly gave me a deep discount on upgrading to 5+ speakers, as these are out of warranty. They advised me to simply dispose of the faulty "5" speakers. If anyone would like to convert them to passive (unpowered), I'll send them to you for the cost of shipping. I'm in OKC.
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Hold that thought
Yup, I'm in. Zip is 17543. -
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^Same"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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Will do, guys. Working details with FB.
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Sorry guys, I'm all over it.
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"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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Will do, these are destined to go into Caety's art studio, along with some small form factor amplification and a Bluetooth adapter. Not sure if I'll mod the guts, or gut the built in amp all together and run a small tube amp instead... Too many variables at the moment.
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I think I found the problem... This piece let the magic smoke out! Looks to be poor layout and packaging being the cause. That amp IC wasn't able to breathe with all the wires and foam shoved on top of it. Created a local hotel spot, and POOF!
It's the amp for the passive Speaker
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The A5s are notorious for that. The A5+s have a much better rep. Good going!
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Got so hot it melted the port tube!?! Wow! -
Man I'm local... I wonder how difficult it'd be to convert them to passive?Main Surround -
Epson 8350 Projector/ Elite Screens 120" / Pioneer Elite SC-35 / Sunfire Signature / Focal Chorus 716s / Focal Chorus CC / Polk MC80 / Polk PSW150 sub
Bedroom - Sharp Aquos 70" 650 / Pioneer SC-1222k / Polk RT-55 / Polk CS-250
Den - Rotel RSP-1068 / Threshold CAS-2 / Boston VR-M60 / BDP-05FD -
Yessir, and the conversion is rather simple really. Just need some black plastic sheet approx 1/8-3/16" thick, cut to fit INSIDE the hole where the amp plate sits, remove sections for the port tube and binding posts, remove all of the components on the amp plate except the binding posts, apply Power Grab to the inside of the now naked plate being sure to avoid the holes, mount the plastic, then add a layer of dynamat over that. The plate is now acoustically dead and you can take the XO components off the circuit board and remount them on another piece of plastic inside the box.
Bob's your uncle...
