Fast_Eddie
Upper-middle fi
Hi All,
I have, sitting in my room, a Unity Audio subwoofer. It's a passive unit that weighs, oh, I don't know, maybe a billion pounds. A cat got to it and the rubber surround on one of it's two drivers needs some help. I've removed the tattered remains of the grill cloth that once covered four sides of this monster.
Upon removing the bottom cosmetic cover, I found four very large coils making up a simple passive crossover. It has two inputs and no outputs. Each input runs one of the drivers. As I mentioned, it is passive so has no controls at all.
It seems a very high quality unit that I could get for cheap, but I can't quite decide how to utilize it in my system. It crosses over a bit high for my ADS L810s. It was partnered with a small pair of bookshelf speakers that my friend still has at his place. They were very nice, but remarkably lacking in bass. I'm beginning to wonder if these were designed as a dedicated sub/sat system. He tried to hook it up, but the BPC receiver he was using didn't work very well and it sounded, well, like crap. Not sure why.
Anyone have any insight on this sub and how I might use it. I'm considering trying my subwoofer plate amp on it. I supose I would want to bypas the coils if I were to do that. I should try to get the small bookshelf speakers over here and see if I can't get the whole thing fired up correctly. If that is indeed what we have here, it might be a shame to break up the set, though they're all in poor condition.
Take care,
Ed
I have, sitting in my room, a Unity Audio subwoofer. It's a passive unit that weighs, oh, I don't know, maybe a billion pounds. A cat got to it and the rubber surround on one of it's two drivers needs some help. I've removed the tattered remains of the grill cloth that once covered four sides of this monster.
Upon removing the bottom cosmetic cover, I found four very large coils making up a simple passive crossover. It has two inputs and no outputs. Each input runs one of the drivers. As I mentioned, it is passive so has no controls at all.
It seems a very high quality unit that I could get for cheap, but I can't quite decide how to utilize it in my system. It crosses over a bit high for my ADS L810s. It was partnered with a small pair of bookshelf speakers that my friend still has at his place. They were very nice, but remarkably lacking in bass. I'm beginning to wonder if these were designed as a dedicated sub/sat system. He tried to hook it up, but the BPC receiver he was using didn't work very well and it sounded, well, like crap. Not sure why.
Anyone have any insight on this sub and how I might use it. I'm considering trying my subwoofer plate amp on it. I supose I would want to bypas the coils if I were to do that. I should try to get the small bookshelf speakers over here and see if I can't get the whole thing fired up correctly. If that is indeed what we have here, it might be a shame to break up the set, though they're all in poor condition.
Take care,
Ed
