IBL and SBL crossovers
Posted by: mangold3000 on 29 April 2003
Good afternoon!
I have a kind of a silly problem with my pair of IBLs.
I bought them second hand for a phantastic price, but as they were out of an active Naim sistem, they came without crossovers.
The seller added an extra pair of x-overs out of IMF speakers to the IBLs and told me of satisfying results.
As I never heard IBLs with the original x-overs I cannot share his opinion. Now I run the IBLs - please laugh - with SBL x-overs, which aren't too bad at all. Compared to the IMF ones they are far better.
I run the speakers on a CDX/NAC72/Nap140 sistem. Makes that any sense at all?
My question is:
What is the difference between IBL and SBL x-overs?
Should I watch out for a decent pair of complete IBLs
or can I somewhere get second hand original IBL x-overs?
Any offers are highly welcome?
Thank you and
Cheers
Casper
I have a kind of a silly problem with my pair of IBLs.
I bought them second hand for a phantastic price, but as they were out of an active Naim sistem, they came without crossovers.
The seller added an extra pair of x-overs out of IMF speakers to the IBLs and told me of satisfying results.
As I never heard IBLs with the original x-overs I cannot share his opinion. Now I run the IBLs - please laugh - with SBL x-overs, which aren't too bad at all. Compared to the IMF ones they are far better.
I run the speakers on a CDX/NAC72/Nap140 sistem. Makes that any sense at all?
My question is:
What is the difference between IBL and SBL x-overs?
Should I watch out for a decent pair of complete IBLs
or can I somewhere get second hand original IBL x-overs?
Any offers are highly welcome?
Thank you and
Cheers
Casper
hello casper
i would stop immediately using speakers with wrong crossovers. it's not only a question of sounding better or worse. every chassis has it's own frequency range. with a false crossover you could let frequencies out of range through and damage the chassis!
i don't know, but i bet even sbl's have a different crossover point. their bass chassis is bigger. this means, it does't go as high as the smaller ibl bass, so the crossover point should be lower, so your tweeter could be damaged by becoming too (much) low tones... (very theoretically)
the possibility of finding a s/h ibl crossover for a speaker discontinued '96 is small, good luck. but when i asked naim about 2 years ago, they had every spare part for ibl's, except the foam-grilles. so contact your dealer or naim directly.
happy listening
Adrian
[This message was edited by Adrian Frauchiger on TUESDAY 29 April 2003 at 15:18.]
i would stop immediately using speakers with wrong crossovers. it's not only a question of sounding better or worse. every chassis has it's own frequency range. with a false crossover you could let frequencies out of range through and damage the chassis!
i don't know, but i bet even sbl's have a different crossover point. their bass chassis is bigger. this means, it does't go as high as the smaller ibl bass, so the crossover point should be lower, so your tweeter could be damaged by becoming too (much) low tones... (very theoretically)
the possibility of finding a s/h ibl crossover for a speaker discontinued '96 is small, good luck. but when i asked naim about 2 years ago, they had every spare part for ibl's, except the foam-grilles. so contact your dealer or naim directly.
happy listening
Adrian
[This message was edited by Adrian Frauchiger on TUESDAY 29 April 2003 at 15:18.]