awesome...thank you!
KLH 5 or 6 to stack with 17's
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awesome...thank you!
haha funny. I do have 2 pairs of 6’s. Maybe I can double them up in the barn and use my five’s in the house with my Luxman...
RTally
Speaker addict
The best way to run multiple pairs of speakers is with each pair having their own amp. Either use a preamp feeding two amps or a receiver/integrated amp feeding a second amp/integrated amp. If the speakers have different sensitivities, use two integrated amps so you can adjust the volume of each appropriately.
I have one system set up with the receiver pre-outs going to the inputs of my amp. The receiver powers one set of speakers and the amp powers the other. One speaker pair is slightly more sensitive than the other, so that speaker pair overpowers the other slightly. This is my garage system, so I don't care. I just want lots of sound to fill the garage and the driveway and part of the street in front of the house. Good thing I don't have many close neighbors.
quiet
Addicted Member
All of these. The 5 is a very forgiving speaker. Feed it 30 plus watts and it's good to go. Sub 20 watt's, not so much.
This little 80 watt JVC vr-5660 is my preference with all the speakers. No house sound, no this or that, no warm tub sound, no stripped clean sterile sound. It's all about getting it done. If I didn't have all the others I wouldn't know that. Maybe all the other old receivers are faulty, I don't think so.
Tim D
Super Member
Tubes, but that's JMHO.
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The best way to run multiple pairs of speakers is with each pair having their own amp. Either use a preamp feeding two amps or a receiver/integrated amp feeding a second amp/integrated amp. If the speakers have different sensitivities, use two integrated amps so you can adjust the volume of each appropriately.
I have one system set up with the receiver pre-outs going to the inputs of my amp. The receiver powers one set of speakers and the amp powers the other. One speaker pair is slightly more sensitive than the other, so that speaker pair overpowers the other slightly. This is my garage system, so I don't care. I just want lots of sound to fill the garage and the driveway and part of the street in front of the house. Good thing I don't have many close neighbors.
Great, thank you!
gbroot
Super Member
As far as high wattage vintage receivers, you can't go wrong with the big boy pioneers sx-1010,1050, 1250 etc but they're pricey! The other thing to think about would be placing a 4 ohm load and cranking up the db's on an unrestored vintage unit could very well be a formula for major issues. If you go down the road of vintage, restoration of the electronics is important. I was using an older yamaha rx-v 2092 surround receiver that was rated down to 2 ohms that was just a beast (50lbs). I could run 2 sets of front mains, a set of front effects, center, and rears. The 23's and 5's for fronts, Model 22's for front effects, Model 17's for the center, and the model 6's for the rears. Concert dvds were phenomenal! The large Yamaha surround receivers (non HDMI) can be picked up for a song compared to their original $1500+ original stickers. They equal many of the older vintage receivers musically at a fraction of the going vintage market rates. In my old age their remotes are also a plus!
i did a lot of work on my newly acquired 5’s; changed caps, resealed surrounds, even refinished a bit.
I connect them and it turns out both have dead tweeters. Any advice you can give me on what to look out for on switching them out? The 5’s sound amazing even without the working tweeters (that bass!). The first thing I always play on new speakers is 5:15 by The Who. Who needs a tweeter to listen to John Entwistle?
Thanks for you help as always!
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Tim D
Super Member
Ahhhhh. The Who. John Entwistle. 5:15, Quadrophenia, KLH Fives. What could be better than that!
alteclipsch
Super Member
Have you checked them with a meter?
I tried but I don’t know which ohm setting to put it on - 20k 200k 20m or 200m. Please let me know...this meter element I one I haven’t figured out yet. Thank you!
alteclipsch
Super Member
My analog Triplett has x1and x10 settings. If you have those, set it to x1 ohm. Disconnect the tweeter and hook the meter leads to + and - to get your reading. I think mine were somewhere between 3 and 4 ohms. IMO it would be unusual for both tweeters to be dead, although I'm no expert. I do what the experts her tell me to do.
RTally
Speaker addict
Consider this a perfect learning opportunity.
Connect the leads to the driver and switch between the different ohm options. You cannot damage the driver doing that. You will see that the reading varies for each ohm setting. Where the scale is very high (megohms), it will look like the driver is a dead short (zero ohms on the scale). As you get to the lower ranges, you will see that there is some resistance. The meter scale that shows around 3 to 6 ohms is the one you should be using.
If the voice coil is open, then you will see an open circuit reading on every scale position. This is the same as having the meter leads not connected to anything.
Okay, I will give it a try! I think I futzed around with the meter in that way last time but I was doubtful I was doing anything correctly. Thanks again!!!
GD70
Lunatic Member
Stacking is hit or miss. Some years back, I stacked Six’s and Seventeens, two sets of Six’s, which was excellent I must say, but I always went back to single pair listening. Never tried with my Fives and Six’s as I ended up preferring just a pair at a time.
But this is a hobby of experimentation, so try what ever combinations you want, that’s where all the fun is! As time goes on, you will probably get to a point where you are happy and loving your system with what ever receiver/amp/speaker/TT/CD player/ DAC, you ultimately set up. It can take years but so much fun!
But this is a hobby of experimentation, so try what ever combinations you want, that’s where all the fun is! As time goes on, you will probably get to a point where you are happy and loving your system with what ever receiver/amp/speaker/TT/CD player/ DAC, you ultimately set up. It can take years but so much fun!