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Alon model 1 problems

I recently purchased a pair of Alon model 1's. I'm having a hard time getting them to sound good in my listening room. My room is 14' x 28' with 8.5' ceiling. Currently they are 24" from the back wall, 62" apart. My listening position is 12' from the speakers. They did not come with the spiked feet, so I have them on (9" from the floor) speaker stands. This is currently where they sound the best. But they have a too much midrange and highs verses bass output. I have them bi-wired to a 250 watt solid state amp.

Would a separate amp on the midrange/highs help this situation, say 50 to 100 watts on the mids/highs and 250 watts on the bottom end? I've read reviews of this speaker and the reviewers raved about the bass output and the nice high end, but mine sound very hard in the midrange and highs with the bass being detached with a mid bass suckout. Another problem is volume, when they are brought up to around 87dB the midrange driver starts popping. Shouldn't these play louder without problems?
simpsonjp

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simpsonjp OP
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Wwshull & Spencer,

Thanks for your responses! To answer your questions, I've moved up to around 9' from the Alon's, they sound better! Right now they are not toed in. I have ordered spikes, just waiting for them to come in.

I'm using two Nakamichi 620 power amps bridged to drive them. These amps sound fantastic on my Digital Phase EP.7bs, a/d/s L780/2 and Focal 806V lodspeakers.

The popping in the midrange drivers sounds like when a speaker is overdriven, I can turn the volume down ever so slightly and it goes away. I had this problem with the Digital Phase until I had them upgraded with new drivers and crossovers.

Thats why I'm wonderng if this speaker works better with two seperate amps, one driving the bass and the other (which could be attenuated) driving the mids and highs?

Thanks,
Jeff
simpsonjp OP
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I would like to thank you gentelmen for helping me with my problem. I took your advice and low and behold the Alon's sound great.

I ordered cones for the feet, until they come in I've taken 1/4 x 20 x 1 3/4" long socket head srews and attached for the feet, moved the speaker's to 22" from the back of the speakers to the back wall, bi-wired the LF and M/HF terminals from the amps.

The popping in the midrange driver was because I was running the amps at too low Ohms (around 1.5 - 2), I had forgotten that I had wired a passive subwoofer to the same amps and the sub is 4 ohms and the Alon's are 8, thus playing hell with the amps.

Thanks again for your very informative help!

Music Rules

Jeff
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