Belarathon
08-18-2012, 09:30 AM
Hello:
I recently picked these up for practically nothing on the local Online ad listings. All they needed was a replacement LE5-9 for the original, which had voice coil rub, and a fresh re-foaming of the woofers and passive radiators. Here they are after all issues were addressed:
56645
My question for you is this:
Both loudspeakers had been wired with both the woofers and tweeters out of phase with the midrange. The midranges have spade connectors; pretty hard to screw that up. But as you know, the woofers and tweeters have push type fasteners. In this case, the black-striped leads were connected to the black colored push fasteners. However, I've downloaded all of the literature on this speaker that I could find, and JBL diagrams clearly show the black-striped wires connected to the red fasteners. I've gone with the JBL diagram and connected the black-striped wires to positive on the drivers, but I'm wondering if there would be any legitimate reason why they would have been hooked up backwards (beyond that of someone thinking the converse about the wiring code)? I thought maybe someone had the (not so) bright idea of rewiring the speakers, but that doesn't appear to be the case, and the crossovers appear to be unmolested...at least unmodified.
56646
Any insight, experts?
Thank you!
I recently picked these up for practically nothing on the local Online ad listings. All they needed was a replacement LE5-9 for the original, which had voice coil rub, and a fresh re-foaming of the woofers and passive radiators. Here they are after all issues were addressed:
56645
My question for you is this:
Both loudspeakers had been wired with both the woofers and tweeters out of phase with the midrange. The midranges have spade connectors; pretty hard to screw that up. But as you know, the woofers and tweeters have push type fasteners. In this case, the black-striped leads were connected to the black colored push fasteners. However, I've downloaded all of the literature on this speaker that I could find, and JBL diagrams clearly show the black-striped wires connected to the red fasteners. I've gone with the JBL diagram and connected the black-striped wires to positive on the drivers, but I'm wondering if there would be any legitimate reason why they would have been hooked up backwards (beyond that of someone thinking the converse about the wiring code)? I thought maybe someone had the (not so) bright idea of rewiring the speakers, but that doesn't appear to be the case, and the crossovers appear to be unmolested...at least unmodified.
56646
Any insight, experts?
Thank you!