SleeperSupra
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Fire wood.
Infinity SM-112
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Not worth the time or money to redo the crossovers. Adding internal bracing will help tame the boom. They are kids speakers, designed to attract attention on the sales floor.
goodolpg
Just an old fart trying to help.
I'd say look at what caps are currently installed in them and order new caps of the same values.
Non polarized electrolytics (NPE's) from a place like partsexpress should be good enough.
Yo
Hopeless huh? Well that says alot!
Wouldn't say that they are kids speakers. Though they certainly are not audiophile speakers, they do loud well enough and if you're putting on a party they will do the job. One time listening to Harry Nilsson's 'Jump Into the Fire' turned up to eleven convinced me of that.
Besides, if a crossover customization will make them work 'right' wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that they are 'kids' crossovers and leave the speakers out of it?
Hopeless huh? Well that says alot!
Wouldn't say that they are kids speakers. Though they certainly are not audiophile speakers, they do loud well enough and if you're putting on a party they will do the job. One time listening to Harry Nilsson's 'Jump Into the Fire' turned up to eleven convinced me of that.
Besides, if a crossover customization will make them work 'right' wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that they are 'kids' crossovers and leave the speakers out of it?
SleeperSupra
Super Member
The cabinets are thin and not braced well. That tweeter is just terrible. I have never heard a good sounding polycel, ever.
The woofer has a really small magnet and does not sound very good at all.
Of course these are just my opinions.
Whatever makes you happy.
The woofer has a really small magnet and does not sound very good at all.
Of course these are just my opinions.
Whatever makes you happy.
I do listen far more to the Paradigm Titans, or the Infinity SL-30's, the Polk Monitor 5jr's, Denon USC, the DA PS6's, or even my home built speakers. Pretty much all the other speakers that I currently own I listen to more than the SM-115's, but I won't push any of my other speakers, with exception to the home built's, as hard as I feel comfortable pushing them, and they take it without breaking a sweat. Not audiophile, they don't do a lot of things. But what they do, they do pretty good, get loud. For that I will keep them, at least for now.
That of course won't stop me from looking for better, many speakers out there that I would like to have, or at least audition. Better will come sooner or later
Not sure if I mentioned this in this particular thread but I did add bracing front to back. I added four braces from just behind the mounting screws to the back, I quartered a 2" Poplar dowel and used those. Definitely helped tighten them up. I added batting to see if it would do anything but have since removed it, probably should put something in there to control internal reflection though
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They're decent speakers in my opinion. They're not great but they're not bad.
They can be pretty enjoyable at low to moderate volumes.
While I do agree the polycell tweeter was pretty awful especially when pushed. They really weren't that disappointing.
They're just cheap and fun speakers. Have fun with them. I had set of SM-102 I gave to someone.
These are great for giving to someone just getting into audio also.
They can be pretty enjoyable at low to moderate volumes.
While I do agree the polycell tweeter was pretty awful especially when pushed. They really weren't that disappointing.
They're just cheap and fun speakers. Have fun with them. I had set of SM-102 I gave to someone.
These are great for giving to someone just getting into audio also.
Infinity SM speakers under 150 are not all that well thought of. At the 150 and above they are OK. None of the SM line is up to the quality of the big classic Infinities, the Kappas or the RS series. The SM150 and up can be made better with work like cab bracing and additional dampening. The smaller ones are not worth the asking price you mentioned
I wanted to ask: Are the "RS" Series and Infinity Reference Speaker (What they call Reference Speakers) the SAME thing?
And what do you guys think of:
Infinity Reference Speaker System. Model 2006.6 (331051)
Any good ??
Thank you.
goodolpg
Just an old fart trying to help.
Infinity had a (bad IMO) habit of reusing series and model names. Makes it confusing and sometimes when a question is asked the reply will be "which YYY model are you asking about, the early or the late one?"
There were two classic/vintage Reference series, most of which were good to really good. Model numbers started with RS which can be confusing. Next after the 2nd Reference series was Kappa (still good) Kappa was followed by two "RS" series, Xooo and X001
Left hand side of this page shows the various Infinity series, click of a series to view the various models.
http://www.infinity-classics.de/models/index-models.htm
There were two classic/vintage Reference series, most of which were good to really good. Model numbers started with RS which can be confusing. Next after the 2nd Reference series was Kappa (still good) Kappa was followed by two "RS" series, Xooo and X001
Left hand side of this page shows the various Infinity series, click of a series to view the various models.
http://www.infinity-classics.de/models/index-models.htm
