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Carver Amazing Platinum

Hello, I recently purchased a pair of preowned Carver Amazing MkIV platinum loudspeakersand have a couple questions.

1) Does anyone know what the impeadance is for these?

I know the 60in ribbon is 4 ohms. I thought I read somewhere that the woofers were 16 ohms each. Wired in parallel that would be 4 ohms for all four. I'm not positive about the woofer impeadance though since I'm recalling this from memory.

2) Do I need to know anything special to bi-wire these speakers?

These speakers have a control panel for the hi and low freq
responce and for the Q damping. I haven't pulled the controls out of the unit or anything yet. I don't imagine this is anything difficult to do however it doesn't hurt to ask if I should be aware of anything.

I tried calling Carver(Sunfire) with these questions and was
refered to a guy in Fl. However he only repairs the ribbon
drivers.

Thanks
Chris
ctyler
tclipse
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Try www.carveraudio.com.
ctyler OP
17 posts
 
Thanks but this is the guy, Dave, in Florida I talked to that repairs the ribbons.

Chris
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wellfed
690 posts
 
Go to the site listed below - the webmaster there owns these and would probably be able to tell you what the specs are - http://www.condor-connection.org/asog/bbs/index.html
ctyler OP
17 posts
 
I have two options before me to bi-wire bi-amp these speakers.

1) Rewire the crossover and add binding posts

2) Use an active 2 way crossover between the preamp and the amps.

I'm thinking the active is a better way to go since the amp only reproduces hi's or lows on any particular channel. Or does it really make any difference?

Any opinions?

Also I am not really up to speed on active corssovers. What do you think about the Rane Mojo MX-22 crossover?
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