Author Topic: I went down to the basement to watch a movie  (Read 3108 times)

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I went down to the basement to watch a movie
« on: December 13, 2010, 05:28:12 PM »
Did a quick level check and found one surround speaker with no treble.  I said "this movie will not be the same without treble on the left front presence speaker" - so there goes the afternoon.  I opened it up,  found a spade loose in the old Vifa tweeter. Instead of reinserting it and moving on,  I decide "it has to be soldered".  The cheap plastic Vifa did not agree with overkill Weller at 100 watts (my bad), so the terminal broke.  Now I had to replace two tweeters.  I found a pair of 70s Yamaha tweeters in the scrap pile, but the magnet was too big so I had to modify the boxes....  then I decided to upgrade the caps, then replace the acoustafill with fiberglass fill... bla bla bla - by the time I was done it was 1 am and I had not watched the movie.

But the little bitches sound great!!  (don't diss my brown silicone application technique I was tired and the grills cover that crap)

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Pepe

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Re: I went down to the basement to watch a movie
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2010, 09:11:08 PM »
Glad you had a positive outcome...great improvisation!!!  8)
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Re: I went down to the basement to watch a movie
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2010, 10:09:49 AM »
Nice!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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