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Smoked a 3.5R Ribbon?
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Posted on July 3, 2015 at 09:20:23 | ||
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Location: Florida Joined: January 11, 2004 |
Some here may recall I have blown quite a few 3.5R ribbons, mostly using cheap active XOs. I was so frustrated that I bought a pair of Swan Diva IIs, which have a small 1" tweeter After getting a handle on how good the Swan Divas sounded full range, bi-amped, using the Parasound P5 (bass management circuit, I decided to see how much more open/better my system would sound using the 3.5R ribbons utilizing the Maggie XO with the Swan woofers About an hour into warming up the XOs, I was downstairs, when all of a sudden I heard the old familiar lack of high frequencies in one channel (the same speaker where the ribbon blows) I came upstairs and saw smoke rising out of the top of the speaker. I called Magnepan, but no one there until Monday Could it be a bad part in the XO, or is it something else? |
RE: Guessing, posted on July 5, 2015 at 08:25:38 | |
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Location: Florida Joined: January 11, 2004 |
Unless the OEM XO is wired backwards, no. I double checked that before firing it up |