All Activity

Agreed. I have a Rythmik SE12 for my LFE subwoofer. I'm just trying to figure out if the woofer on the AL-III is supposed to be out of phase with the ribbon (and if so, why), or if that's a spec sheet typo?

1945

1945

1945

1945

1945

Cledus Maggard & The Citizen Band The White Knight

Helen Reddy Somewhere In The Night

The SalSoul Orchestra Tangerine

The Ohio Players Wko'd She Coo

The Ritchie Family Best Disco In Town

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

Keith Carradine I'm Easy

Silver Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang

Neil Sedaka Love In The Shadows

Hey, good project! I don't know how far along you are, but consider this, The woofers are woofers in the design. They are not subwoofers. LFE type application to this speaker is not it's intended purpose. Separate subs (s) would do home theater much better. I have had 3 sets of AL III's and they do a lot of things really well. Deep bass is not one of them. Woofers fart both because of surround/spider lack of control or just being over driven at low frequencies. Good luck.

The Who Squeeze Box

Queen You're My Best Friend

So I just had my AL-III crossovers rebuilt (Nelion), and I noticed the woofer output was wired out of phase. I asked Greg about this, and he said this is correct and sent me an image of the manual spec (page 10). Sure enough, it shows the woofer out of phase. (This would also explain why my original Audessey setup thought one of my speakers was out of phase and I couldn't at the time understand why.) But it also shows the ribbon input's positive on the top, and the woofer input's positive on the bottom, making me wonder if this could have been a typo? If not, why would the woofer be wired out of phase, and should I keep it wired this way?