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Soliloquy and bad crossovers

I recently found out (through Audioasylum.com) that Soliloquy installed a bad bacth of crossovers in their speakers some years ago and I was wondering: 1) if anybody else heard the same thing, 2) if so, what year(s) did these duds get released, and 3) did the bad crossovers have something to do with low and high frequency of the crossover????

Also, when connecting for biwiring does the low freq. cable connect to the upper or lower binding posts. The posts are not marked and the tweeter is situated beneath the bass drivers. Unfortunately, I do not have a manual.
cody_the_cat
cody_the_cat OP
18 posts
 
I had contacted David Berman regarding bad cross overs with the following reponse: "We had no run of bad crossovers being installed in Soliloquy products. We did have an issue in 1999 with the 6.3 crossover not performing as well as we like, but that was taken care of in 2000 with a capacitor replacement."

Not sure that it translates into dull life-less high frequency response, but apparently not an issue except for the 6.3s.
jimd
50 posts
 
Cody, I contacted David Berman at Soliloquy because I cracked the grill cover on my 6.5s. Even though I am the second owner of these speakers, he said that he didn't have any grills in stock at the time but, to call him later in the month and he would send out a replacement. He did't have to offer that but he did. I would not think twice about Soliloquy's customer service. Jim
rysa4
266 posts
 
Hi Cody. Sorry you are having frustration. With regards to biwiring, you need to first remove the jumpers. If the jumpers are not in place, you have a problem right there. I am going to assume you know what these are.

In any case, as long as your positive and negatives are hooked up correctly, I dont think it matters which way you go. The biwiring separates frequencies along a signal path, nothing more. The signal frequencies themselves will wind up in the right place if you want to think of it that way. Hence the term crossover.

I do not know which city you are in ( if a city at all), but perhaps a second pait of Soliloquy-familiar ears can render an opinion on this. If there is a problem, perhaps you can return the speakers to place of origin. It's a shame about all of this. Hopefully it will turn out well for you.
rysa4
266 posts
 
OK. I am gonna be dumb here; you say that the tweeter is below the bass drivers? Perhaps this is a VERY old model ( that might not be bad), but I have never seen any 5.3s other than a tweeter on top layout. SO here's my really dumb question- Are you sure these are SOliloquy speakers?

Just thought I'd ask.
cody_the_cat OP
18 posts
 
To JimD: Don't get me wrong customer service is great and David Berman extremely helpful. I was just posting his response regarding a bad batch of cross-overs that seemed to only be an issue with the 6.3s. The original info I got on the bad Soliloquy cross-overs was a thread on Audioasylum.

To Rsya4: I did remove the jumpers. Also, I was refering to the Model 5.0s which switch the position of the drivers (sorry for the confusion) as I own both a pair of 5.3s and 5.0s. Thanks for your response. Actually, all is well that ends well. The problem I discovered was in the cross-over when I removed it from one of the speakers. One of the wires for some reason had come loose from the tweeter connection. Being quite handy with a soldering iron I reconnected with my trusty 2% silver solder. Now the sound pours out quite nicesly. Being that the speakers have less then 50 hours on them they do sound a bit reserved, although their full potential is certainly evident. Treble isn't fully extended (although it is sweet and liquid), bass isn't exactly firmed up, and the inner detail is somewhat lacking. In a sense they have not fully opened up. I intend to play them continuously for the next few weeks and anticipate a cacophony (sp ?) of musical magic. Thanks to all. By the way the early Soliloquys used twisted Straightwire cable, but have now switched to Analysis Plus. I am thinking about switching my Kimber biwire for Analysis Plus Oval 12 biwire. Has anyone evaluated the sonic performance difference between biwire and single cable?
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