I forget the brand they are, I can dig it up if it means anything.
There’s no indication of the model number, so I can’t really look up what they are at all…
But anyway. For a short time I used an Onkyo TX-DS787 to power them.
While I was using them, the woofers barely moved.
The tweets up top moved and sounded fine.
But there was little movement from the woofers, and zero bass.
They are 15" Woofers.
What am I looking for to get them moving, provided they are not dead?
The Onkyo was used on many different speakers, so I know that’s not defective. A guy at best buy told me I would need a higher current flow to the speakers in order to get them to move. Is this correct?
I don’t feel like dumping money on to something, only to find out I was mislead by a store sales person. (Because they’re so trustworthy, right?)
Crack them open, good possibility there is a loose wire. If not that, then they’re probably shot and their VCs are bad. That Head should power them just fine.
there is only 1 terminal on the back of those cabinets right? You could buy a sub amp but that would require you to add another terminal just the the subs. if you dont want to add any cash, sell those and buy a powered HT sub(if you have bookshelfs/towers
Just thought of something… I know some Recievers have settings on them where you can adjust what “size” speakers they have attached to them; this basically adjusts the cross-over frequency and filters out the low frequencies; you may have this adjusted wrong as well and set to “small” or something similar.
There may be a chance that you hooked up the speakers out of phase. Try wiring them again, paying close attention to make sure the wire goes from red to red and black to black. It’s worth a shot.
It’s just a red + black connection, like a typical HT speaker.
I’ll crack them open today and see what’s up.
I did end up buying a powered sub though, because these speakers were a fail (this was 2 winters ago)…
I wanted to use them at work, but they need some bump!
I did find it kind of bogus about the guy at best buy, considering it wouldn’t have been the first time they’ve mislead me. So I thought it would be wise to double check.
not to mention he pointed me in the direction saying that I should buy a HK reciever (All the units he showed me were 599+), and that would definitely do it. I was like uhh k thanks.
Thanks! I’ll report back -.-
Yeah, it does have the adjustments, but that didn’t seem to have much of an effect.
I was thinking about this, but im not sure if i ever even checked it or not.
cleaned up the crossover and now they power just fine.
Except when I put 80w+ on them, they smell really really funky, lol.
they’re cheapos anyway… the cabinet is horrid when i looked at it after i pulled the woofer.
Yea, they smell funky cuz you’re overheating the VC probably! Lol!
I do that to my HT subwoofer sometimes, nothing like feeding a 200Wrms sub like 1200 Watts! (I blew the intergated amp, so now I’m powering it with a 2400W Pro-audio amp.)
