Soliloquy and bad crossovers


I recently found out (through Audioasylum.com) that Soliloquy installed a bad bacth of crossovers in their speakers some years ago and I was wondering: 1) if anybody else heard the same thing, 2) if so, what year(s) did these duds get released, and 3) did the bad crossovers have something to do with low and high frequency of the crossover????

Also, when connecting for biwiring does the low freq. cable connect to the upper or lower binding posts. The posts are not marked and the tweeter is situated beneath the bass drivers. Unfortunately, I do not have a manual.
cody_the_cat
1) Yes.
2) Around 3-4 years ago.
3) High frequency.

Sounded like there was no output from the tweeter; very dull and lifeless sound. I would contact Soliloquy and ask them what to do. They were responsive to my inquiries about the sound of the speakers.
I had contacted David Berman regarding bad cross overs with the following reponse: "We had no run of bad crossovers being installed in Soliloquy products. We did have an issue in 1999 with the 6.3 crossover not performing as well as we like, but that was taken care of in 2000 with a capacitor replacement."

Not sure that it translates into dull life-less high frequency response, but apparently not an issue except for the 6.3s.
Cody, I contacted David Berman at Soliloquy because I cracked the grill cover on my 6.5s. Even though I am the second owner of these speakers, he said that he didn't have any grills in stock at the time but, to call him later in the month and he would send out a replacement. He did't have to offer that but he did. I would not think twice about Soliloquy's customer service. Jim
Hi Cody. Sorry you are having frustration. With regards to biwiring, you need to first remove the jumpers. If the jumpers are not in place, you have a problem right there. I am going to assume you know what these are.

In any case, as long as your positive and negatives are hooked up correctly, I dont think it matters which way you go. The biwiring separates frequencies along a signal path, nothing more. The signal frequencies themselves will wind up in the right place if you want to think of it that way. Hence the term crossover.

I do not know which city you are in ( if a city at all), but perhaps a second pait of Soliloquy-familiar ears can render an opinion on this. If there is a problem, perhaps you can return the speakers to place of origin. It's a shame about all of this. Hopefully it will turn out well for you.