To all the sifu here,

I've just bought a pair of used speakers; unfortunately, I didn't have chance to test it due to the seller sold off his amp when I bought the speakers.

The previous owner had left the speakers in store room over 1 year.
The speakers exterior looks perfect, including the woofer/ tweeter condition.

When I hooked it up at home, my God! The sound was so dull !!

No mid and high, only bass!

After re-run in about 30 hours now, the high is coming out now, but the mid (especially vocal part) still sound dull!

My question to all the sifu here is:

If there're any capacitors in the crossover circuit fails, what would be the possible consequence to the speaker sound?

In my case, could it be something wrong with the speakers' crossover?

Both speakers sounded the same! But I've heard the same model of this speaker before (Castle Severn II), it shouldn't sound so dull.

Help Sifus!

Thanks for all the sifu here

My setup as below:

1) CD Player : a) Denon DCD-S10 b) Primare D20
2) Pre-Amp: Musical Fidelity F22
3) Power Amp : Adcom GFA-555
4) Interconnect : VDH D102 MK III, Taralab Prism , Chords Cobra 3
5) Speaker cable: Chords Odyssey 4

Currently, I've another 3 pairs of speakers : Castle Harlech S2, Castle Richmond , Tannoy 705 Anniversary . All these 3 pairs of speakers don't sound dull at all in my system. My system even though is not extremely bright, but it definitely not mellow in sound.

The thing is, my Tannoy 705 had been sitting in my brother storeroom for 7 years , but when I tried it today, it had no such problem (dull sound).

Only the Castle Severn II got this problem. I really don't believe Castle Severn II is so dull in sound (in UK was listed at 599 or 699 pounds); for such a dull sound, nobody is going to buy it

I'll try to take some picture of the crossover tomorrow when I got the tools to open up the woofer / speaker terminals.

This post has been edited by billyngcam: Jan 10 2009, 11:34 PM

All the Sifus,

I finally got time to open the speaker terminals to see the crossover.

Photos as below.

I tested it by connecting the bass unit directly to speaker cable , bypassing the crossover, and the speakers do sound bright enough!

So, now almost 90% confirm the problem is with the crossover. Either the factory pre-set it like that, or something not working correctly. But the strange thing is, both side of the speakers sounded the same.... can both speaker crossover spoil at the same time kah? So lucky?

Now, my headache start..... Sifus, how to check which component fail?

At the end of the day, if, just if, nothing is wrong with the crossover, how or where can I modify the crossover to make it sound brighter?

thanks in advance bro!





This post has been edited by billyngcam: Jan 13 2009, 06:06 PM