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Hello All,
Is anyone familiar with this? Too many years ago, when I worked at Audio Concepts here in Houston, one of the guys made up a pair of little filter networks that were mounted on banana plugs. He used them on a pair of our Magnepan MG-1 speakers in one of our listening rooms. Basically, he inserted these between the speaker cable banana plugs and the speakers and it seemed to kick up the bass rather nicely...
I've looked at low pass capacitive/resistive circuits on Google but the way they're set up, being in series, I can't see how you could mount this on a banana plug and insert it between the speaker cable banana plug and the speaker itself... I have a pair of Pioneer CS99-A speakers that I'd like to enhance the bottom end on, and can't seem to figure out how to do this and mount it on a banana plug...
Anyone have any ideas?
Kind regards to all,
Luther
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Another note;
it bothers me that Houston, our 4th largest U.S. city, has no Audio shop?
Hello Luther,
I have often wanted to learn why Audio Concepts closed operation?
" he inserted these between the speaker cable banana plugs and the speakers and it seemed to kick up the bass rather nicely... "
I don't buy that.
CS99's have no bass, they're too small and too efficient to have any bass.
Invest in a subwoofer.
3-4 cubic foot.
Al Sekela experimented with diagonal placement in his listening room and got a real boost in bass, when otherwise he had a serious bass null at his listening seat. Not saying this is a cure all, but it was unusual and it did work for him.
Room placement is an issue with most speakers and bass response, and Maggies are definitely just as subject to this effect as any others.
Best way is to just get an EQ unit, but even then, you
won't get any real low bass out of a CS speaker. Design flaw.
Thanks for the response.
Yeah, I get that the CS-99As are flawed... Its just bugging me that I can't sort this out just yet... I've played with a powered subwoofer with these but there's a definite place where the bass levels take a dip where the woofer and subwoofer would normally cross each other... Not sure how to fix that so thought if I could just boost the bass response in the speaker I could get by with that until I can do something else for speakers...
Best regards,
Luther
I agree with the placement. Moving it a foot could make all
the difference. You could also try stuffing the box with
more fiberglass or polyfill...if they aren't already.
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