You might want to try taking that basket gound wire to the + lead ( or - )

Posted by Triodeuser (A) on August 20, 2003 at 19:10:49

In Reply to: I ground my AER drivers in my Oris horn posted by kurt s on August 20, 2003 at 08:52:17:

instead of the system ground.

We had a session in Asheville sunday at Steve B's house and tried it on his TADS in his sierra brooks grand 32's.

Jim Dowdy, Phil Seig, Randy Carter and the crew preferred it without it. Initially, I preferred it with it, because it smoothed the TADS out to my ear. However, they heard some distortion on some passages that they didn't hear with the TADS in their normal config. And I was standing behind the horns most of the time and doing the AB switching so wasn't in position to judge - however, that is a sharp eared group of guys for sure.

The difference was noticeble - just not a preferential position in the case of the TADS.

Jack R. tried it on his Alnico Philcos with absolutely no change whatsoever.

Don't know if it will do anything on AER's. But of the folks who have tried it on Fostex - we're 2 for 2 - no one else has gotten back to me as to results - very slight difference on the - lead and noticeable difference on the + lead. I've tried to get several other Fostex users to give it a shot but no one has gotten back to me with a yea or nea.

if it's easy for you to get to, why don't you give it a try and tell me what you think?

Regards

Ken L

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Topic - Grounding speaker basket to + or - speaker leads - any thoughts? - Triodeuser 07:44:45 08/20/03 (13)

How do you think this may work on a lesser driver? - Audiopolous 06:50:55 08/23/03 (3)

It may work well - it may not work at all - Triodeuser 08:51:24 08/23/03 (2)

I tried it and... - Audiopolous 16:54:09 08/23/03 (1)

cool - Triodeuser 21:20:45 08/23/03 (0)

Re: Grounding speaker basket to + or - speaker leads - any thoughts? - Timbo in Oz 19:46:43 08/22/03 (0)

Why??What does it do??? - Robert Hamel 22:22:30 08/20/03 (1)

Moray James suggested I try it. - Triodeuser 14:28:44 08/21/03 (0)

I ground my AER drivers in my Oris horn - kurt s 08:52:17 08/20/03 (1)

You might want to try taking that basket gound wire to the + lead ( or - ) - Triodeuser 19:10:49 08/20/03 (0)

I've never tried it... - Charles Hansen 07:49:03 08/20/03 (3)

If you do try it on something - let us know how you do. - Triodeuser 19:20:04 08/20/03 (2)

In the days of field coils??? nt. - Robert Hamel 22:25:42 08/20/03 (1)

Not sure - my guess is that it was after field coils - Triodeuser 08:53:39 08/21/03 (0)

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