5b’s speaker polarities

arcspark
arcspark Posts: 14
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Afternoon, So I was tearing these apart so I could dynamat the frames and noticed that the second one had the wires reversed I.e. the white wire was on the red dot side as opposed to the other one so it appears someone might have had these out of phase....any thoughts, thanks,arc
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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,459
    You will have a lot better bass slam now, without one canceling the other.
    George / NJ

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,436
    Black wire to red white wired to the opposite
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  • arcspark
    arcspark Posts: 14
    Well that’s what I was thinking as well but I’ve been wrong before...thank you all. Always good info here.....arc
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