ads l-690's

[will d]

Picked them up yesterday to use as rears in a 5.1 system with an l-710 as a center channel speaker and the l-630's as fronts. But looking at the tweeters on the 690's, they are shiny black like the tweeters on my ads mv-10c and my ads b-7's. Not like the sticky domes on the l-630's and the l-710. No gold wires from the tweeter housing into the tweeters. I've already discovered that I don't like the sound of those tweeters compared to the older sticky domes. So i'll give them a try, but I think i'll use either the l-300e's or my l-570's as rears. I've already tried mixing the m series in the mv-10 c with the l series speakers and to my ears the l series tweeters sound more brilliant. So I wonder if a previous owner changed the tweeters. Not sure, any input would be appreciated. Best regards, Will D.

 

[jdurbin1]

Could be the later polymer dome type, vs. the original sticky fabric domes. If so they'll be a little more subdued, but very smooth...

Picture of the front & back would help ID them. 206-0126 is a common model though.

John

 

[will d]

Could be the later polymer dome type, vs. the original sticky fabric domes. If so they'll be a little more subdued, but very smooth...

Picture of the front & back would help ID them. 206-0126 is a common model though.

John

Thank you for your response, I will absolutely take some pics tomorrow. And as you read in my thread, you said it perfectly, subdued but very smooth. The mv-10c is very articulated on movie dialogue, and the b-7's meld very well with the mv-10c. I guess i'm just aggravated with myself for not being able to control that urge to buy. Just wanted to try larger rear speakers as I like to listen to the mancave system in 5 channel stereo, and the l-300's are great rears. So in closing, I'm just going to go into the wonderful world of experimintation and find out if the l-300's or l-570's or the 690's will be the blend i'm looking for. Thanks for your response, Will D.

 

[jdurbin1]

FWIW, my HT system has the older fabric domes on the rear surrounds (C400i/s) and the polymer domes in the LCR front speakers: HT400LCR center and pair of prototypes built with HT800iw drivers. The HT-series use that same polymer dome, just mounted in a custom injection-molded plastic housing that becomes part of the front baffle. I don't have any problems with the tweeters being different on the rear surrounds, but that's no surprise - having the front LCR voiced the same is more important than matching in rear surrounds, which rarely share the same content and aren't active in 2.1 music applications. I guess it could show up in multichannel SACD but if so I haven't been bothered by it.

John