Jbl 4435

Can someone please refresh my memory? It has been a years since I last owned 4435’s and I cannot seem to remember the proper speaker wire hook up. It seems that in the 80’s Jbl used black for the positive connection and of course red for the negative. Is this correct? Thanks for any help.

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Originally Posted by RichVito

Can someone please refresh my memory? It has been a years since I last owned 4435’s and I cannot seem to remember the proper speaker wire hook up. It seems that in the 80’s Jbl used black for the positive connection and of course red for the negative. Is this correct? Thanks for any help.

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Swap the wires at all the transducers within the box, I recall this is the recommended solution.

As opposed to simply swapping the polarity at the input terminals on the back of the enclosure?

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Originally Posted by jblbgw_man

Swap the wires at all the transducers within the box, I recall this is the recommended solution.

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http://warehousesound.com/r/jblTECHNOTE1-12B.pdf

The 4435 is a negative system meaning that a positive voltage on the red input terminal will produce a negative force at the woofer diaphragm.

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Originally Posted by Riley Casey

As opposed to simply swapping the polarity at the input terminals on the back of the enclosure?

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Zactly.

Barry.

Thanks for the reply folks.Upon doing a battery test the results are with the black to positive and the red to negative the woofers move out.