For you obsessive tweakers...

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VR3
VR3 Posts: 28,033
edited November 2005 in DIY, Mods & Tweaks
Tighten the disconnects that connect your midbass and tweeter to the crossover...

loose disconnects smear detail and make you lose volume. I just had this problem... a disconnect was coming loose on the negative of my left front tweeter... my whole soundstage fumbled...
- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,408
    edited November 2005
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    what's a disconnect?
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    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited November 2005
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    What's a crossover?
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • DAGLJAM6
    DAGLJAM6 Posts: 635
    edited November 2005
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    You know a "thingamabob" commonly known as a "doohickey". :)
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
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    Takes a special wrench. No longer available from Polk. ;)
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  • Mazeroth
    Mazeroth Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2005
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    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote:
    Tighten the disconnects that connect your midbass and tweeter to the crossover...

    loose disconnects smear detail and make you lose volume. I just had this problem... a disconnect was coming loose on the negative of my left front tweeter... my whole soundstage fumbled...

    You didn't just say this :(
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,860
    edited November 2005
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    It must be what Sid is feeling nowadays.

    From Dictionary.com: disconnect n : an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends";
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,033
    edited November 2005
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    Pick your speaker wire off the ground...

    It picks up mouse harmonics...

    Put your power cables below ground...

    Keeps them grounded.

    Bury your speakers in the sand... keeps the resonance down. And inert... in more ways than one.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Mazeroth
    Mazeroth Posts: 1,585
    edited November 2005
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    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote:
    Pick your speaker wire off the ground...

    It picks up mouse harmonics...

    Put your power cables below ground...

    Keeps them grounded.

    Bury your speakers in the sand... keeps the resonance down. And inert... in more ways than one.

    What??? :confused:
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited November 2005
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    Mouse Harmonics
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,033
    edited November 2005
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    Put expanding foam in your woofer baskets... keeps them very stiff!

    Put aluminum foil around your tweeters in the shape of a horn... improves detail!

    set your speakers in cement and give them redbull...it'll give them wings!

    Dump your speakers in grease...it'll give them a warm & sticky sound
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
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    I can vouch for the horn upgrade!!

    :D:D:D:D
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