picked up a pair of minty Monitor 7C's

anhedonia
anhedonia Posts: 8
edited January 2010 in Vintage Speakers
Greetings,

Craigslist was good to me. A pair of minty Monitor 7C's, complete with shipping boxes, warranty card, and manual. For $80.

Lovely speaker. This is only the third pair of manufactured speakers over the decades. Having DIY'ed most everything over the years I've gone though about a dozen pairs of speakers and rarely ever made any purchases. So these sit along side Magnepan and JM Labs as the only speakers I ever purchased already built.

When I was a kid and everyone was lusting for some awesome Cerwin Vega LOUD speakers or Klipsch's, I was dreaming of owning a pair of the original 7's with the peerless tweeters (the ones with the holes poked in the domes :) )

Anyway.. Before I open them up I am hoping to maybe get a copy of the x-over schematic so I can pre-order some parts for upgrades. I'd also like to know how engineered the x-overs were.. Did Mathew take into consideration the DCR of the coils? Stuff like that. Thanks in advance for any help here.

I'd also like to entertain some stand ideas. I'm thinking about 12" would do it but if anyone has any height recommendations before I start cutting wood. What about angle? I remember seeing the original 7's on stands that tilted them back a shade.

Thanks for the forum. I've always been a fan of the old school Polk Speakers.
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited January 2010
    Congrats and Welcome to CP.

    Get your search on. There is tons of info you will find around here.


    Pauly
    Life without music would♭
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  • leroyjr1
    leroyjr1 Posts: 8,785
    edited January 2010
    Congrats and welcome to the Polk Forum.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited January 2010
    Welcome to club Polk. Many threads have been written on the monitor upgrades. Post a thread if you wish to upgrade them.
    Ben
    Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
    Thanks
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  • fbm211
    fbm211 Posts: 1,488
    edited January 2010
    Start with the xovers.New caps and resistors.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,606
    edited January 2010
    Welcome to CP! Would love to see some pics of your DIY stuff.
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • anhedonia
    anhedonia Posts: 8
    edited January 2010
    Pauly wrote: »

    Get your search on. There is tons of info you will find around here.

    Pauly

    Lazy, guilty! :D

    I pulled one of the x-overs out for a quick look-see and I believe I have the revised versions as I spotted what appears to be the safeguard on the tweeter. My eyes are giving out so I need to bench these to get a better light on them.
    halo71 wrote: »
    Welcome to CP! Would love to see some pics of your DIY stuff.

    Well, that is an unfortunate problem. I had to make an emergency move last summer and some issues occured. If I hadn't had such a loss I wouldn't have been looking in craigslist for something to fill the void. I lost everything except a little bit of test equipment and an old pair of Allison tweeters. Speakers only, never DIY'ed electronics.

    My previous pair of speakers were Rick Craig designed "STS" speakers. (S)Scan (T)The (S)Seas.. A two way with a pair of Seas Excel T25-001 soft domes (before they quit using silver wire for the vc) and a pair of ScanSpeak 18w-8545 woofers.

    My DIY stuff was really never picture worthy though. Once I got things built up sound wise, I usually stopped due to lazyness. Other than a pair of subwoofers many years ago, I never fully finished a pair of speakers. :D

    I have some pictures though, somewhere, but they needs scanned.. someday.

    Thanks again.
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited January 2010
    anhedonia wrote: »
    Lazy, guilty! :D

    I pulled one of the x-overs out for a quick look-see and I believe I have the revised versions as I spotted what appears to be the safeguard on the tweeter. My eyes are giving out so I need to bench these to get a better light on them.

    Yes the 7C's had the Poly Switches.

    Pauly
    Life without music would♭
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