Please Post your Infinity speakers

[Charivari]

Grainger, so you do still have your Servo-Stats. What happened to the tweeters? Have you considered attempting to repair them?

Since others have put me to shame on pictures, I might as well post a quick pic of one of my RSMs and same for the RSbs. Odd, Infinity made some quite nice looking speakers with Rosewood and Walnut, but then decided to sell these ugly buggers with their Oak veneer and brown texture painted baffles.

Reference Studio Monitor:

RSb:

And some more of the rare electrostatic headphones:

Walnut side panels, raised gold lettering, and a big red protection switch -- not quite a good blend.

Doesn't look too impressive on the inside knowing about what the list price was:

The leatherette coating is flaking off resulting in a mess trying to wear these, still extremely comfortable, though.

One of the diaphragms that may or may not need replacement:

- JP

 

[Grainger49]

Grainger, so you do still have your Servo-Stats. What happened to the tweeters? Have you considered attempting to repair them?- JP

JP,

I still have the Servos. The pictures posted are from the day I posted them. But they have been "broken" for quite a while. :tears:

Back in the 70s I was the servo repair guy in Atlanta. I would take parts out of mine and repair customer's units. Then wait months for replacement parts. :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: I equate that with biting the hand that feeds you.

They (Infinity) were smoking dope at work back then. :nono: That is first hand knowledge, not a slap at the guys in California. But mine have a transistor out in the servo amp, I have found a replacement, but haven't bought it. The tweeters went into my brother's Infinity 2000As. He never replaced them either.

I have a stack of midranges that may or may not work. Some day I will get a wild hair and start vacuuming them and checking them out.

Thanks for asking.

 

[Kencat]

JP,

What's up with that wizzled-up green surround? Looks like Saran Wrap or something. Does it work?

 

[shrinkboy]

at least he was able to post pix on his first try. i'm still trying

 

[Charivari]

JP,

What's up with that wizzled-up green surround? Looks like Saran Wrap or something. Does it work?

You're talking about the RSb picture? The previous owner didn't know about refoaming at the time and chose to 'repair' the rotten surrounds with latex. It seems to have worked as a short term fix, though at the cost of much bass. However, the foam has continued to rot underneath, so the latex is starting to float above the remnants of the old surround and will likely part from the cone shortly.

at least he was able to post pix on his first try. i'm still trying

Try Photobucket and follow the instructions they provide.

- JP

 

[SicMan]

My Baby Q5's

Missing the original woofers, guy I got them from said he dumped the woofers cause they were rotten on the outside.....AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! :bash: Anyway these were wired wrong inside and if you look close the tinsels are shot on the mids. Other than that they are coming along fine.

 

[Charivari]

Sicman, those cabinets look in awfully good condition, so I'd say they're definitely worth getting going. The broken midrange tinsels are notorious for breaking, but if you're patient and have a steady hand, you can repair them.

Interesting, there are three critical problems that seem to affect nearly every Infinity Quantum model:

1. Broken Midrange Tinsels
2. Corroded Potentiometers
3. Removed/Replaced Woofer

- JP

 

[SicMan]

The pots are very good in these, they only needed little cleaning. Must have been in a dry environment. Yeah it's a shame the woofers are missing. I had to replace one of the tweeters, it was toasted. Found an 8 amp fuse instead of a 2-3 amp in the one that was fried.

Cases are supurb for the age and haven't been cleaned up yet.
I saw the posts on fixing the mids, may try it, or send em out or hopefully find replacements. Speakers work now except for the mids.

 

[Kencat]

at least he was able to post pix on his first try. i'm still trying

Shrinkboy,

What is your current abilities with jpegs? Do you have and/or have used photo editing software?

If you can get your jpegs resized to 800 X 600 pixels, that is the first step.

The rest is just getting walked through using the AK buttons below the posting screen.

This old post by Charivari is very good at explaining the AK picture attaching process.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43025&highlight=attach+pictures

 

[shrinkboy]

i guess this is kind of a thread hijack, but i don't care. i'm 'using' kodak easy share; it stores gigantic screen filling raw images. i think i have figured out how to get them shrunk but haven't the slightest idea how to precisely get 800x 600. seems far too complicated -- seems like you should be able to click something, get a menu option list, click what you want and be done with it w/o having to do a lot of hunting around. i have gone through the attachment process a zillion times, and always find an entire 'album' being attached, rather than just the one i want. or, when i think the image is sized correctly, i find it isn't.....

this is why i don't solder or use multimeters or read schematics or remember the difference btw watts/volts/amps/etc. cause i'm a non techie liberal arts major baby boomer....

i'm gonna look at charivari's post and hack away some more. and thanx for your pm Kencats.

 

[Charivari]

i guess this is kind of a thread hijack, but i don't care. i'm 'using' kodak easy share; it stores gigantic screen filling raw images. i think i have figured out how to get them shrunk but haven't the slightest idea how to precisely get 800x 600. seems far too complicated -- seems like you should be able to click something, get a menu option list, click what you want and be done with it w/o having to do a lot of hunting around. i have gone through the attachment process a zillion times, and always find an entire 'album' being attached, rather than just the one i want. or, when i think the image is sized correctly, i find it isn't.....

As with most things in life, if you keep fiddling with it, you'll eventually have it figured out. The attachment limits for AK are 900x900 pixels and 200kb file size. So, you needn't resize the pictures precisely to 800x600.

However, there is a quick and easy way to meet both size limitations with Windows XP. Just go to File, Save As in your Kodak program and save the picture to your desktop in JPEG format (there should be a little menu underneath where you put the file name that allows you to choose the saved format). Then, right click the icon for your photo and select from the context menu "Resize Pictures." Another window will pop up with several possible image sizes, click the 800x600 option and OK. Windows automatically chooses a lower quality compression algorithm during resize so your finished picture will not only be of the proper resolution, but also of sufficiently small size to use the "Manage Attachments" option in your Advanced Post Reply.

Or ... you can use Photobucket to upload your raw images after you have saved them to a convenient location, such as Desktop. Too large of images (greater than 512kb, iirc) will be automatically resized when you upload them to an album. After that, just follow the instructions to copy the image location and paste it into your reply and use the [ IMG] [/ IMG] tags.

Good luck,
- JP

 

[OMI]

Infinity QAs.. Just finished a re-veneering. If you want to see how I did it:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61599&page=1&pp=15

 

[wineslob]

Hey, whats with all the Dogg Digital speakers? I thought this was a Infinity forum??

 

[Jygesq]

my infinitys RS-11 purchased new 1981

great speakers, Refoamed woofers 1997 . Running ACurus 250 power amp. yamaha cx-2 preamp. Yamaha px-3 with grace f-9e. Marantz 3 se cd. Advent 201a. cassette (for car tapes) Newly acquired use Yamaha tx-950. Wingard ch6055 outside antenna(no rotor) Sound priceless

 

[Kencat]

great speakers, Refoamed woofers 1997 . Running ACurus 250 power amp. yamaha cx-2 preamp. Yamaha px-3 with grace f-9e. Marantz 3 se cd. Advent 201a. cassette (for car tapes) Newly acquired use Yamaha tx-950. Wingard ch6055 outside antenna(no rotor) Sound priceless

Whoo Hoo...1st post. Welcome Jygesq, to AK. Did you intend to have pics with the post?

If not, how about it?

 

[Army]

Hi Jygesq

Welcome to AK!

And by all means, post a picture of two of your setup, it's more the merrier around here :thmbsp:

Regards
Army

 

[Jygesq]

unforetuntely digital camera illiterate

Hi Jygesq

Welcome to AK!

And by all means, post a picture of two of your setup, it's more the merrier around here :thmbsp:

Regards
Army

do not know how to post photos. Rll were built 1981-83, lower woofer box with solid oak wing . 2 x 10 inch woofer. three 5 inch mid ranges / 2 emit tweeters one in front one rear facing 180 degrees out of phase. Sound priceless..cost me $1300 in 1981 when purchased new,

 

[MartinV56]

do not know how to post photos. Rll were built 1981-83, lower woofer box with solid oak wing . 2 x 10 inch woofer. three 5 inch mid ranges / 2 emit tweeters one in front one rear facing 180 degrees out of phase. Sound priceless..cost me $1300 in 1981 when purchased new,

Hi, My Kappa 7.2 i, very good, best regards, Martin

 

[Charivari]

If nobody's done it yet, welcome to AK, Martin!

I'm afraid your picture didn't post -- you need to put the image location URL in between the IMG tags.

- JP

 

[Rod G-6000]

I have one pair of RS 3000's and a set of SM-82's.