Some of you might remember the saga regarding my Rega Elict going berserk and outputting DC to R/H channel thus roasting the voice coils on both bass drivers, I've contacted ProAc (twice -no reply), Falcon Acoustics (helpful but nope), SEAS ( we might have something suitable at £140+ VAT each!!)
A few weeks have turned up nothing at all except similar results at huge markup - eBay came up trumps - a mint pair of drivers for £90 inc postage, fitted and all is good in the world again...
To make sure things were kept on keel and driver matching I removed one of the working mid/bass drivers from the L/H speaker and installed that into the R/H speaker mid/bass, I used the two replacement drivers for bass on L/R.
Oddly after fitting bass was non existent and clearly out of phase, I removed the drivers again for a sanity check that I didn't solder the cables out of phase? My work is good. Hmmm, recheck the speaker terminals because being a lemon can't be ruled out - Banana plugs are correct. Heeey, what's this??? All the years I've owned the speakers I've never noticed that the 'left' speakers terminals are ar$e about face? This wasn't me for sure even after reworking the crossovers because the terminals weren't removed because access was good to the PCB, clearly it's been like this from production and it's a fluke that I wired them up correctly from day one - naughty ProAc!
A few weeks have turned up nothing at all except similar results at huge markup - eBay came up trumps - a mint pair of drivers for £90 inc postage, fitted and all is good in the world again...
To make sure things were kept on keel and driver matching I removed one of the working mid/bass drivers from the L/H speaker and installed that into the R/H speaker mid/bass, I used the two replacement drivers for bass on L/R.
Oddly after fitting bass was non existent and clearly out of phase, I removed the drivers again for a sanity check that I didn't solder the cables out of phase? My work is good. Hmmm, recheck the speaker terminals because being a lemon can't be ruled out - Banana plugs are correct. Heeey, what's this??? All the years I've owned the speakers I've never noticed that the 'left' speakers terminals are ar$e about face? This wasn't me for sure even after reworking the crossovers because the terminals weren't removed because access was good to the PCB, clearly it's been like this from production and it's a fluke that I wired them up correctly from day one - naughty ProAc!