I made a post about this is the TMWW thread but I wanted to make a thread out here to get a quicker response becuase I am kinda worried and anxious about the answer.
I finished my crossovers for my TMWW towers on friday and installed the first crossover in one of the speakers. I then went and hooked up the one TMWW to my Rotel-1080 amp and listened to it for about a half hour. It sounded great until my RS28 tweeter blew.
Most of that half hour my volume was at -20db to -10db on my Denon-2807 receiver but I did push it up to reference level of 0db. Keep in mind the receiver goes up to +15 or +20db.
The Rotel-1080 shouldn't have broken a sweat pushing these guys so the amp wasn't clipping. I am pretty much stumped as to why it would blow.
Like I said in my other post, the only part of my XO that is iffy is the connection where all 3 positives hook up to the terminal plate. Same goes for the negatives. I am using Apex Jr's 11AG speaker wire and the stuff is thick. Trying to connect 3 of them together makes a big ball or wire and solder. I thought maybe the tweeter positive is making a better connection and gettign more power. But all of the speakers were playing fine until the tweeter blew, so all of them were gettign power. So I am out of ideas.
Also, is there any sort of power regulator I can solder into the tweeter XO so this doesn't happen again. I do like to listen to movies pretty loud and don't want to have to worry about blowing my tweeter all the time.
Thanks
Mike
I finished my crossovers for my TMWW towers on friday and installed the first crossover in one of the speakers. I then went and hooked up the one TMWW to my Rotel-1080 amp and listened to it for about a half hour. It sounded great until my RS28 tweeter blew.
Most of that half hour my volume was at -20db to -10db on my Denon-2807 receiver but I did push it up to reference level of 0db. Keep in mind the receiver goes up to +15 or +20db.
The Rotel-1080 shouldn't have broken a sweat pushing these guys so the amp wasn't clipping. I am pretty much stumped as to why it would blow.
Like I said in my other post, the only part of my XO that is iffy is the connection where all 3 positives hook up to the terminal plate. Same goes for the negatives. I am using Apex Jr's 11AG speaker wire and the stuff is thick. Trying to connect 3 of them together makes a big ball or wire and solder. I thought maybe the tweeter positive is making a better connection and gettign more power. But all of the speakers were playing fine until the tweeter blew, so all of them were gettign power. So I am out of ideas.
Also, is there any sort of power regulator I can solder into the tweeter XO so this doesn't happen again. I do like to listen to movies pretty loud and don't want to have to worry about blowing my tweeter all the time.
Thanks
Mike
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