RDO198s!!!! IN..Monitor 10's..but plastic moldplates dont "DROP IN"...

RandyWilliamson
RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
edited July 2009 in Speakers
I've installed them instead using the older plain metal plates.....but definitely contemplated cutting the front face slightly and stuff to get the newer plastic plates to drop in....but honestly I don't want to mess things up...i do have a dremel but ah...just probably tired done a lot of work lately.

Is it possible I can call Polk and use the RDO194's plastic plates instead??? are they perfect drop-ins?
Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
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  • RandyWilliamson
    RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
    edited July 2009
    btw they sound absolutely freaking great!!! thanks to ben for happening to have the coils needed to mod the XO for these when I re-did them a few months back.
    Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited July 2009
    nice tweeters
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  • conceyted
    conceyted Posts: 17
    edited July 2009
    very nice
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited July 2009
    Did your M10's have the Peerless tweeter? The new tweeters are perfect drop-ins for the SL2000's, but not for the Peerless. Were the tweeter's domes silver or black?
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  • RandyWilliamson
    RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
    edited July 2009
    Yes they were definitely many moons ago Peerless.....
    Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited July 2009
    Then they are not perfect dop-ins.
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  • RandyWilliamson
    RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
    edited July 2009
    So not even the 194's plates will drop in.?...im stuck having to cut out...or keep my metal plates in.
    Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2009
    why not replace them with peerless tweeters? They do come up from time to time.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited July 2009
    Do you have a router?

    Where are you on LI?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,841
    edited July 2009
    thanks to ben for happening to have the coils needed to mod the XO for these when I re-did them a few months back.

    Hmmmm.....so other than the inductors, what else was changed?
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  • RandyWilliamson
    RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
    edited July 2009
    Face wrote: »
    Do you have a router?

    Where are you on LI?

    what do u mean router?
    Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
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  • RandyWilliamson
    RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
    edited July 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    Hmmmm.....so other than the inductors, what else was changed?

    Peerless tweets weren't coming up when I was re-doing the XO's so I made a decision....the inductors were changed and the changes needed to run SL2000's or 3000's were also made.....

    basically the rated caps and resistors that coincide with the tweets Polk intended the RDO198's to replace. (if I recall the lowside caps were still the same ratings...don't recall specifics sorry but I ran it thru u guys)
    Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2009
    Well, I guess it's too late to go back,,good luck though.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,841
    edited July 2009
    Ok, gotcha on the mods.

    Hook up with Face, he'll get things straightened out for you.

    A router is a machine that one could use to safely enlarge to openings.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,366
    edited July 2009
    Here is a pic, If you have never done it maybe you have a friend that knows how to use one.

    If it was me, "only cause i am very anal" I would make a jig to router it out for a perfect clean drop in.
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  • RandyWilliamson
    RandyWilliamson Posts: 178
    edited July 2009
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Here is a pic, If you have never done it maybe you have a friend that knows how to use one.

    If it was me, "only cause i am very anal" I would make a jig to router it out for a perfect clean drop in.

    haha funny.

    ok I see what u guys have in mind...alright...well i may have to revisit this...
    they are in place using the older metal plates....but I do like the new polk branded moldings...but I guess its because everything is currently exposed with no branding. since their front thread covers are gone...I will start a new thread on that.
    Cool stuff: Adcom GFA-555, GFP-710, Oppo BDP-83, Monitor 10's w/RDO198s, rebuilt and modded XO: Sonicap/Mundorf topside, Daytons Low.
    Benq W5000

    "Leaning back like a maxwell tape commercial listening to pure polk bliss"
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