Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo resistor on m-80s

I don't know how these would be wired from your description but it sounds like the resistor is acting like a "fixed" volume control on the tweeters? Is this so, are we talking about reducing the output from the tweeters by doing this...?

If this is the case why not adjust the treble setting on ones reciever, seems to me this would be an equally broad approach. Or not?

Cheers, Jag

Yes Michael, adding a resistor after the crossover and before the tweeter would uniformly reduce the output of the tweeter by a specific amount over the entire tweeter range(e.g. 2,500Hz and up). Speaker crossovers are designed to have the tweeter at a level which is suitable for a "typical" listening room; an extremely live room with much less absorption of the high frequencies conceivably could benefit from the resistor. The treble tone control would also have some effect on this, but that causes an increasing rolloff with frequency up to a certain point, rather than a set reduction over the entire frequency range. Of course, it also can be turned off at will and doesn't permanently modify the speaker.

Thanks for the excellent explanation JohnK,

It all makes sense now!

Cheers, Mike

Solder these in instead:

http://www.bybeetech.com/index.html

Please tell me you're joking. Great line they've got, "It's still classified!" I also love how they essentially say it doesn't do anything.

After you solder in the Bybees, put one of these over each speaker cable close to the speaker:

http://www.zcable.com/z-sleeves.cfm

Then put one of these on your CD player over the disc transport, one on top of your amp/receiver over the transformer and one on top of each speaker:

http://www.gutwire.com/notepad.htm

My favorite part from the first link...

"the Ultra1 is really quite extraordinary in it's ablilty to enable every bit of musical, movie, or video information to be preserved"

read as, "what makes our product so special is that it does nothing at all"

This yields huge benefits: put Vibrapods under all speakers and Vibrapods/Vibracones under your amp and disc spinner.

http://www.vibrapod.com/

i called axiom and spoke to one of the guys there and i was told that the resistors are for changing the impedance and i wouldnt really hear a differance....ron

Hi,

That is incorrect. Do you recall who told you that? I'm heading up to Axiom for meetings and part of my role is to ensure that consistent advice is given out.

Regards,