Please Post your Infinity speakers
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mjalazard
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The Qa was a 2 way speaker: Looks like someone added another driver, making additional holes in the baffle. The extra hole made me think it was a Qb...my errorNope, Qa's. Still have the woofers and one of the original EMIT's.
http://www.bobbyshred.com/infinity/Qa.html
http://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/infinity/qa.shtml
Somebody did some mods on yours...look at the additional pair of speaker binding posts on either side of the tweeter L-pad are not stock.
Mike
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BigMikehifi
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slimpikkins
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If you think those are finicky try the qls1 for size. I don't think I can move on as they embarrass most speakers I have listen to...the whole quantum series is well worth the effort to make them correct. Yes the mids are problematic and the quantum 3 just have the one so its doing a lot of heavy lifting, many will fail. I was told by a well known speaker fixer that the glue on those wires is the problem, eats the little copper wires...once they are fixed properly they will most likely hold up well.
Bahamayellow
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Picked these up last year on Craigslist and couldn't resist. Got them for a really good price and they were in fantastic shape. If it wasn't for the seller getting K9s he wouldn't have sold them. Been using them ever since and sounding great. Boy they love the juice. My infinity 8.1s. Since I got them I haven't seen any other Kappas sold for about a year. People must holding on to them.
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I'm kinda new to Infinities. I'd heard RS-6000s as a kid, but haven't paid any attention to real speakers until the last few years. I've started re-collecting vinyl and looking for the right turntable for my tastes, so I installed a set of JBL L46s in my office so I'd have something "good" to listen to. But I don't listen to high volume heavy metal every day any more as my recent collection is more 50's and 60's jazz, so the JBLs got replaced with Boston Acoustics A70s... which sounded good enough to move into the main listening room... so I found a pair of Infinity RS-3000s.
The RS-3000s sound good, but seem very limited. I guessed it is the 2-way design. So, I started looking around AK to find something better in Infinities, found the Classic Infinity DE site, wandered around looking for something 3-way or better that appealed to me, fixed on Kappa 6s or Kappa 7s, started looking in Bartertown and on Craigslist for them, and ran into a good deal on Kappa 8s instead.
The Kappa 8s sound fantastic (now that they are refoamed and powered by a decent amp) for anything I throw at them, but, alas, they are stuck in the moving-prep area of the living room. They'll be in storage for months or more until I find a new, more permanent home back in Virginia.
Until then I have to make do with the two sets of Infinities that are the test speakers for my workbench.
The SS-2001s are fine to make sure a just-recapped receiver works OK and the RS-10s (the 1980's version of the RS-10) test the bigger receivers, their dynamics and bass.
While my setup (the Kappa 8s) aren't quite as fancy or awesome as some of the more-vintage Infinity classics here, I've got the advantage of having my chosen set of speakers first and looking for a house (and proper room for listening to them) second.
The RS-3000s sound good, but seem very limited. I guessed it is the 2-way design. So, I started looking around AK to find something better in Infinities, found the Classic Infinity DE site, wandered around looking for something 3-way or better that appealed to me, fixed on Kappa 6s or Kappa 7s, started looking in Bartertown and on Craigslist for them, and ran into a good deal on Kappa 8s instead.
The Kappa 8s sound fantastic (now that they are refoamed and powered by a decent amp) for anything I throw at them, but, alas, they are stuck in the moving-prep area of the living room. They'll be in storage for months or more until I find a new, more permanent home back in Virginia.
Until then I have to make do with the two sets of Infinities that are the test speakers for my workbench.
The SS-2001s are fine to make sure a just-recapped receiver works OK and the RS-10s (the 1980's version of the RS-10) test the bigger receivers, their dynamics and bass.
While my setup (the Kappa 8s) aren't quite as fancy or awesome as some of the more-vintage Infinity classics here, I've got the advantage of having my chosen set of speakers first and looking for a house (and proper room for listening to them) second.
slimpikkins
Super Member
Did you get those Kappa 8 off of the Philly CL? If you did they were a great deal. The temptation was great for me but resisted...Glad you like them, they are pristine.
I don't remember if they were listed on CL, but maybe they were. I bought them of a fellow AK'er.
Bahamayellow
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Saved these reference 3 from the flea market 12 years ago. I had one set of Infinitys only then and liked them because they were a small 3 way bookshelf. They sat in a closet up until 3 years ago I decided to put a bedroom set together. Up until a couple weeks ago I noticed the sound was a bit different. Although the foam looks good in the picture I ran my finger along the rim and poked my finger through one. Yep they are rotted on the mid ranges and woofer. Time for the refoam.
audiomagnate
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RS-1000 looks good in the ikea shelf, it helps the little babies produce more deeper bass, the sound is not dry now, so enjoyable in normal listening volume.
With a China brand class d amplifier, have bluetooth function, computer, radio streaming, tv...... I'm happy to use them everyday.
With a China brand class d amplifier, have bluetooth function, computer, radio streaming, tv...... I'm happy to use them everyday.
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ARIZONA RAT
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Infinitys are my rear ch.. jbls and yamahas in the front...
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. Are those the correct woofers, Johnny?
Yeah - good spot, and I was curious too, since the black dust caps aren't the clear phase plugs I've seen in many other pictures of RSIIs. I was curious enough to snap a picture as I re-foamed them (Rick Cobb wonderfully supplying the foam, as usual, a perfect fit). They are 902-2279A which as far as I can tell is correct. (http://www.infinity-classics.de/technik/manuals/RS_II_technical_sheet.pdf)
So I'm wondering if they were factory replacements maybe put in when the original foam went bad? I've only found pictures online of one or two other sets with the black dust caps, and both were advertised as original. For example http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/649277231-infinity-rs-ii-speakers/ Maybe someone can shed more light on this?
There was some discussion of different versions of the midrange - with two different sized magnets. These have the smaller magnet mids.
The pic I took:
slimpikkins
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That is for sure a replacement woofer from infinity for the RSII and rsIIa/b. The originals most likely suffered from foam rot and were just replaced long before the easy peasy YouTube video for everything days we live in. Some of them had black dust caps from infinity. Those have a shallower basket and angled cone. The originals had a deeper basket and cone pluse the cone was curved. Here's a thread with a couple pics of both.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/902-2279-vs-902-2279a-10-woofers.403697/
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/902-2279-vs-902-2279a-10-woofers.403697/
