Upgrading To Better Speakers!

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Originally Posted by Driver_King

It's okay. It's a recommendation. It's your choice. Have you looked into SVS or AV123? They have finishes that would probably please you and deliver a bit more than the Salks. And yeah, I'm still waiting for my eD sub and am anxious to get my hands on it. I might upgrade my speakers eventually. Yesterday, I decided I was going to be Mr. Detective and went searching for pics of my Technics SB-4500A's. I've had recurring problems with certain movie sequences that make my speakers sound like they are hitting something. I know the physical woofers are alright (I hope) so I decided to take a good look at the pics of the woofers to see if I noticed something I hadn't before. Then it hit me, I looked at the surround part of the woofer and compared it to the surrounds on my Technics. I laughed at myself and felt like an idiot. The surrounds of my Technics were completely pushed in. I got my allen wrench out and popped the surround out. That's only part of my problem though right now. After I did that, I went to the test tone sequence of my 805 and noticed that both speakers sounded completely different. I was starting to get pissed. I fixed one problem and another comes up. So, I spent well over five minutes screwing around with the settings, trying to make them sound more alike. Well, I got them to a similar volume level, but they still sound completely off. I left the test tone on and went to put the grill back on the left speaker. Guess what? It starts making this scratching sound and flickers on and off. So I hit the top of the speaker and it went away.




A few seconds later...



It cuts out completely. I tried messing with the solder on top of the speaker wire and tried to get all of the strands under the solder. That didn't make any difference. I did a horrible job soldering the wire there and yesterday, I found you're supposed to heat the wire and then put the solder on top of the wire and not just melt the solder on top of it hoping it will work. I didn't ever have problems with the left speaker until yesterday. So now, I have even more problems than I had before. I'm thinking I need to get new binding posts for the Technics because they don't even have any at this point. Any questions, suggestions, or comments are welcome after this long post.

Good luck with the repair. The only thing I can recommend is you might want to replace the internal wiring and maybe the x-over's while your at it. Especially if they have seen a few B-DAYS. I have read from quite a few post at "Audio Karma's" website about a sort of "fountain of youth" effect by replacing the guts. They also have a lot of DIY info there as well that may be of interest to you.