Monitor 10As wires from crossovers to drivers
Lalala
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A while ago I posted here and got a lot of help from you all, I was eventually able to get my speakers sounding better than ever. Thank you everyone for that.
When I replaced drivers etc I replaced the soldered on wire connection with fastons to the driver. Twice now I’ve had them become disconnected inside the speaker. I don’t know why that happened, but I live in an apartment building so it could be because of something I can’t control. They are on stands (not original). I put the fastons back on and used needle nose pliers to make them fit tighter. The tabs on the drivers don’t quite seem to fit modern fastons, my theories are that they’re in between sizes or that it could be because of soldering and desoldering wires on changing the size of the tabs; I had to desolder them to allow fastons to attach.
So my question is would soldering the wires to the drivers as they were originally and cutting the wires and using fastons to connect wires where I cut be a good solution? Would it degrade sound quality? If anyone has any other ideas for this I’d love to hear.
I don’t have great ventilation in my apartment, so I’d prefer not to get into a lot of soldering. But I could do the wires as a one time thing.
thanks
When I replaced drivers etc I replaced the soldered on wire connection with fastons to the driver. Twice now I’ve had them become disconnected inside the speaker. I don’t know why that happened, but I live in an apartment building so it could be because of something I can’t control. They are on stands (not original). I put the fastons back on and used needle nose pliers to make them fit tighter. The tabs on the drivers don’t quite seem to fit modern fastons, my theories are that they’re in between sizes or that it could be because of soldering and desoldering wires on changing the size of the tabs; I had to desolder them to allow fastons to attach.
So my question is would soldering the wires to the drivers as they were originally and cutting the wires and using fastons to connect wires where I cut be a good solution? Would it degrade sound quality? If anyone has any other ideas for this I’d love to hear.
I don’t have great ventilation in my apartment, so I’d prefer not to get into a lot of soldering. But I could do the wires as a one time thing.
thanks
Answers
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I suspect you bought .25 fastons. You want .187 such as these.
https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/dorman-disconnect-16-14-gauge-.187-blue-84546/12066709-PPolitical Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
thank you. I bought multi size, but that doesn’t mean they had the right size. I take it that’s for the drivers? do you know what size for the tweeters?
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.110Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
thanks
I’ll try those sizes before considering my other idea -
You're welcomePolitical Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
FWIW, I've always bought my fastons at Advanced Auto or AutoZone for a number of years now. They've always had all the sizes I've needed.
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