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In Reply to: RE: Looking for Jensen Model 1 Speaker Info posted by Quadzilla on July 02, 2012 at 18:20:08
How sad is it to answer your own thread? Well, I gently pried the grills off (they are held in place with 4 tacks, for lack of a better description), and the foam is rotten. Worse then I have ever seen actually ... yet they still sound very good ... ???There is only one driver in each box, 8 inches with a wizzer cone. I picked up the foam surrounds locally for 5 bucks a piece, and the glue is drying as I type this. I wasn't unhappy with the sound before, so I am sure that the bass will tighten up with the new surrounds.
Prehistoric 4-Channel Lizard
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I have had to answer my own thread too :-(! I think you found where the base went! In your position, I would have refoamed too. Some of those wizzer coned 8 inchers are very good.
Dave
I have a pair of cheesy home-grown speakers that came with 4" Radio Shack drivers with wizzer cones, and they have these crazy coil things in them. I am told that they are some sort of "crossover" that attenuates the midrange of single drivers to give the illusion of more bass. I might try them in the Jensens and see what they do.
Prehistoric 4-Channel Lizard
It is probably a notch filter. It may or may not be right for the Jensen. I would do a search. There may be one specifically designed for the Jensen.
Dave
Thanks Dave. I thought I would just hook it up to the speaker terminals first, and if it makes a nice difference then I will install it permanently inside the box.
Prehistoric 4-Channel Lizard
I don't think it could hurt anything to try it.
Dave
I liked that it tamed the midrange a bit, but they lost a lot of dynamics, and the treble was too much. The bass was actually smoother without them, so I am going to leave them stock (except of course for the new foam surrounds). They didn't turn out too bad though.Now to try some Heil tweeters in my ADC 303ax!
Prehistoric 4-Channel Lizard
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Live and learn! They do look nice.
Dave
Probably the reason for the poor bass response. I had a pair of model 6's about 40 years ago (bought new). A 15", 8", 4" and a 1" dome tweeter in a sealed box. They sounded pretty good, actually.
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