Problem with diy speakers

[thimios]

+1
Exactly! Probably the problem is at Insulated coil wires.

 

[russc]

As both speakers had identical issue and now sound fine I believe the poster when he says the fix was reversing the woofer connections.
Having experienced this issue myself as described in my last post, I would have found the symptoms difficult to describe. Without first turning down the volume, I jumped out of my skin when I swapped the dodgy speakers for a properly working pair, such was the difference in sound level. Quiet - LOUD!

 

[Pharos]

Improper polarity won´t go from ZERO output to perfect sound, at worst it will sound weakish and weird (big hole in midrange) so my take is there was some terrible soldering involved and now you corrected it.

No not ZERO, but a hell of a cancellation dip since the O/Ps are nearly equal.

 

[Pharos]

Glad you fixed them.

Many years ago I bought then returned a pair of speakers from Richer Sounds.
No matter how loud I turned the amp the sound was quiet and muddied.

Looking back I am convinced it must have left the factory with drivers wired opposite phase.
I didn't know then but it would have been easy to test as it had separate woofer & tweeter binding posts for bi-wiring. I was using single speaker cabling & linked the posts as intended, red to red, black to black.

I the 70s a friend bought a pair of Marsden-Hall speakers, and I pointed out that the mid and tweeter connections on one had been connected to the wrong O/Ps of the Xover - mid energy going to tweeter, and tweeter energy to mid, and he hadn't noticed.

 

[nigelwright7557]

The woofer is crossed at 100Hz maybe thats why you cant hear it ?
The ear is not very sensitive below 100Hz.

First check is your system. Play music straight into speakers without crossover to prove before and after crossover is working OK.
If it is the problem is in crossover.