Tweeters Seem Harsh

Systems

Its been a long time since I've owned a set of Polks. (ex wife sold mine while I was out of town 6 years ago) I just purchased a set of SDA 2b's and replaced all the drivers with MW6503 drivers. Being out of town working I only had my brother-in-law's Onkyo HT receiver to test with. The tweeters seemed way harsh for some reason. I don't remember my old SDA's being this harsh. These new speakers will be connected to a Jolida SJ 801A tube amp with a Luxman D-105u tube CD player. My amp has no bass or treble controls and I'm wondering if I'll have the same harshness when I hook these up. Is there a replacement for the tweeters to bring down the brightness of the highs? Possibly a mod? Thanks in advance for the help. Chuck.

RuSsMaN

The Jolida will almost certainly sound better. Seach threads for SL2000, they have a documented spike (almost +5db) centered around 12Khz-13Khz. There is a replacement silk dome available direct from Polk that cures the spike, and sounds much better overall also.

Welcome to the boards.

Cheers,
Russ

Stew

stereo_luver wrote:

replaced all the drivers with MW6503 drivers.

The 2b's use MW6503 for the stereo drivers and MW6511 for the SDA drivers. I'm not sure exactly what the differences are but I don't think they're interchangeable.