re"the horn is mid the 3.5 are tweets." - so change the labels;
'why 3 wires not 2?' - looks like two stripy wires to me (post 31 RH pic), but I could be going blind.....;-)
'why 3 wires not 2?' - looks like two stripy wires to me (post 31 RH pic), but I could be going blind.....;-)
re 3 wires i have encountered this in other Zenith consoles some are indeed "bi-amped" others are merely parallel high passed through a capacitor but the wiring color scheme is consistently dark brown (- or ground) and beige/tan = low and drk brw and yellow = high.
Usually, my suggestion is to
1) mount the speakers frontally, so no hollow tube/cavity effect happens
(the back mount is for the grills to stay flat on the baffle, right ??! )
2) replace the double tweeter/w/horn with proper drivers, and mount them vertical, on axys ( with the woofer )
MAke two boxes ? easy
make two sounding boxes ?
but that's experimenting...
so the thing we need to sort out is whether or not the high section was being driven by a separate amp or whether it was parallel high passed (and what frequency the x-over is) tracing the wiring back should help to find the components where looking to transplant.
Ok, i will trace the wiring back and take pics.
Pico, I'd like to keep all the original speakers. Why replace the horn/tweeters?
Pico, I'd like to keep all the original speakers. Why replace the horn/tweeters?
Should I cut the wire that leaves the woofer to the extension speak connection? Do I need to disconnect the wires from the tuner/amp?
Keep the back of the new boxes open?
ok great! so the lower pair of wires coming from the woofers can be cut and fed into a speaker terminal?
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