Changing speakerconnection.
Posted by: Pallie on 01 January 2016
Hello and happy new year everybody,
Last night i've changed the speaker cable, i mean not the cable but the connection.
Black(-) goes in red(+) and red goes in black. I've thought that the speakers were now out of phase, but it made no difference at all. Why doesn't it make a difference?
Hi, I had a quiet New Year too ;-)
If you've made the change to both speakers then I don't think they are out of phase despite being labelled wrong. Try doing it to just one.
Chris
Christopher_M posted:Hi, I had a quiet New Year too ;-)
If you've made the change to both speakers then I don't think they are out of phase despite being labelled wrong. Try doing it to just one.
Chris
Hi Chris,
I did it with just one speaker. Isn't it strange?
Listen to a mono recording or radio broadcast, preferably speech. With one speaker out of phase you should not hear a firm central image the voice will be diffused, reverse the leads to the offending speaker and you should definitely hear that the voice is coming from a central point between the speakers.
If that is not the case it could be that one of your drive units inside the actual speaker is incorrectly wired, this happened to me I had been listening for several years with one of my speakers like this and many forum members had heard them and not detected anything amiss. In my case it was the mid drive unit on the right hand speaker that was wrong. So just playing music it was not that obvious as is your description. My keen eared dealer was installing a piece of kit and picked up on this while listening to some speech on Radio 4 and was able to correct it by opening up the speaker and reversing the lead to the offending mid speaker.
The focal website has some tools you can play to see if your speakers are in phase or not. It's very obvious when you use it whether everything is as it should be or not. Just Google focal tools.
Michael posted:Listen to a mono recording or radio broadcast, preferably speech. With one speaker out of phase you should not hear a firm central image the voice will be diffused, reverse the leads to the offending speaker and you should definitely hear that the voice is coming from a central point between the speakers.
If that is not the case it could be that one of your drive units inside the actual speaker is incorrectly wired, this happened to me I had been listening for several years with one of my speakers like this and many forum members had heard them and not detected anything amiss. In my case it was the mid drive unit on the right hand speaker that was wrong. So just playing music it was not that obvious as is your description. My keen eared dealer was installing a piece of kit and picked up on this while listening to some speech on Radio 4 and was able to correct it by opening up the speaker and reversing the lead to the offending mid speaker.
Okay they aren't out of phase, thanks for that.
Fuzzy giant posted:The focal website has some tools you can play to see if your speakers are in phase or not. It's very obvious when you use it whether everything is as it should be or not. Just Google focal tools.
Again thanks great tool anyway.
The "problem" is one speaker stands in a corner, and there is the bass a little too much. So when a use the balance in the naim app one speaker, in the corner, sounds different then the other. Thats why i thought something is wrong. It's the acoustic.
I am glad that you have realised what the problem was and all is well, enjoy your music.