Hi all! I was going to post this in the speaker forums, but now realize this is more of an amp question.
I have a lovely active Genelec 8040b studio monitor... but ... I would love to rip out all the electronics from the speaker and (safely) put them in a separate enclosure. Then the dream would be to use speaker wire to connect the woofer and tweeter (2 x 2-wire) over a modest 20ft cable run without any detrimental effects to sound quality. It would still be the same pairing of amp/speaker, and yes, before you ask, I would close up any resulting holes in the cabinet resulting from the surgery. Since this is a commercial product, I know this would void the warranty, but I don't care haha. I don't have a schematic, but the brochure states it is a class B amp design.
You might be wondering why on earth I'd like to do this? I need to put the speaker in a location where there is already 2 x 2-wire 14awg speaker wire in place, and routing 120V power is technically very difficult.
Before I open up the speaker and test this myself by splicing in 20ft of speaker wire, I would love to know if anyone has ever done such a thing?
I have a lovely active Genelec 8040b studio monitor... but ... I would love to rip out all the electronics from the speaker and (safely) put them in a separate enclosure. Then the dream would be to use speaker wire to connect the woofer and tweeter (2 x 2-wire) over a modest 20ft cable run without any detrimental effects to sound quality. It would still be the same pairing of amp/speaker, and yes, before you ask, I would close up any resulting holes in the cabinet resulting from the surgery. Since this is a commercial product, I know this would void the warranty, but I don't care haha. I don't have a schematic, but the brochure states it is a class B amp design.
You might be wondering why on earth I'd like to do this? I need to put the speaker in a location where there is already 2 x 2-wire 14awg speaker wire in place, and routing 120V power is technically very difficult.
Before I open up the speaker and test this myself by splicing in 20ft of speaker wire, I would love to know if anyone has ever done such a thing?
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