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#218442 - 03/21/06 09:24 AM
Re: Z5500: second center speaker
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Registered: 12/08/02
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Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
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As long as the speaker has the same impedience, which I believe is 8-ohms, and roughly the same frequency response, you shouldn't have a problem. As for the parallel hookup, Post merely installed a 1/4-inch phono jack in the back of the first speaker, then connected the wires from the primary speaker to the jack. Now all he has to do is plug the second center speaker into the first using a short instrument cable. while there is an impedience mismatch using this wiring technique, the system apparently has more than enough power to overcome this. Nothin' to it! Gary ------------------ Travlin' Easy
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#218443 - 03/21/06 09:44 AM
Re: Z5500: second center speaker
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Registered: 09/22/05
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thanks alot Gary...not being the best DIY guy, i'll probably just deal with what im using in the band now (the one speaker).
while your online, hopefully, theres one more issue I need to adress...im hooking up a microKORG and an Alesis QS6.1 to a small yamaha mixer into the Z5500 system. the sound is great, but at some points it gets fuzzy when its real loud with some effects. im trying to find out the best way to amplify my sound so it comes out the best quality... the volume on the Z5500 is all the way up but without going into the boost, and the keyboards are at about 50%, and the first gain knobs on the mixer almost all the way up , the second gain knobs 75% way up and the master volume on the mixer about 50%...where should I be turning up the volume in this whole setup, so that my sound quality will be affected the least? finally, at times i smell a slight burning smell when I play loud with my band, and I suspect its coming from my setup somewhere...is this normal?
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#218445 - 03/21/06 12:36 PM
Re: Z5500: second center speaker
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Registered: 12/08/02
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Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
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I've never experienced a burning smell using the Z-5500 system, and the best way to determine if something is being overdriver is to place your hand on the heat sink located on the back of the sub. It should be warm to the touch--but not hot. As for your hookup, without seeing and hearing it first hand it's tough for me to diagnose. This is one you will have to experiment with until you get the best sound quality. Good Luck, Gary ------------------ Travlin' Easy
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#218465 - 03/30/06 10:08 AM
Re: Z5500: second center speaker
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Registered: 01/31/06
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Loc: The World
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hi, in that situation you would probably be ok, but keyboard generated instruments can produce some low notes ... a double bass's lowest note is in the same frequency range for example...though in the case of strings, it is not very often you would be down that low, and they lack the dynamic "punch" of particularly the kick drum, which has a very sharp transient peak and it is very repetitive ...BUT the first release units did have a habit of burning out their coils (commonly referred to as blowing up),or the other thing was that the cone extended so far on the particular woofer that jbl used, that the coil wires broke i am not sure of the numbers as it was hearsay amongst audio techs i dealt with, but significant enough for it to be a topic of conversation, much the same as the power supplies causing damage on behringer gear being used in australia... bthmedicine, this is only a "heads up" as a)it happened to me and b) audio techs confirmed it was a problem with some, not all!! dennis PS i think JBL changed the woofer in later models..mine were the first release, which was about 1998-99 somewhere around then...
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