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ESS crossovers

frank1ruth

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Does anyone know where I could get 2 crossovers for a pair of ESS AMT 1B speakers? My old reciver died and it seems to have blown out the crossovers on both speakers as the Heil air motion transformer still works but the woofer in both speakers are dead. I tried puting new woofers in both cabnets but still not working. Any help?
 
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Yes Sorry to hear of Speaker damage! Very costly and sad! Beautiful ESS at that! I would rebuild the whole crossover! Take what you have (crossover as a whole) to your local electronic store, or shop for values online. At the local parts store they can help you with identification of caps and other key components ! If you are not comfortable you can ask the counter guy if he knows or is interested in a side job? Copy of the existing is not that difficult. Hope that helps ! Love to hear how they sound when repaired. Also Heli coils are super fast so will need super recone or very fast replacement to pair correctly! Lots of ESS info out there.
 
So... the woofers still function, but not the low pass (or whatever part of the crossover) for them? Are they fused?



It won't be very expensive to fix, if it's just the crossover.
 
Yes

If your woofers are undamaged ? You will be very fortunate! Hope it stopped in the crossover! The fuses or protection should have protected!
 
Are yours the bookshelf type, with the AMTs set into the face, or the floorstanding type, that look like a stubby stele, or truncated square pyramid?

The crossovers in the former are neatly mounted on a board, fairly stable and easy to remove and work on in one piece; in the latter, they are surprisingly fragile, with inductor coils wound from thin wire usually literally dangling, if they have been moved much or opened or had the woofers removed. These things are pretty easy to damage, but equally easy to repair. At least, this was my finding/experience with one example of each type. My impression may not be entirely typical, though, as the floorstanding ones I got had been so badly handled that the cabinets were literally splitting apart at the seams(!).

In either case (no pun intended), as others have suggested, these crossovers are repairable. If yours are the more common floorstanding type, check all the wires and connections, first: you may even be able to find the problem and repair it yourself.

If not, take it to a shop/tech and have it done. These are not very difficult to work on, and are definitely repairable.

Of course, if you find a good price on one from a parted-out speaker, that is also a viable option, but you don't have to go that rout.

Perhaps a good start would be to remove the crossover, and post clear pics of it here. If you are lucky, we can spot the problem just by looking at it.
 
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