Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Well color me ignorant!

Total noob question but in my infinite wisdom (or should I say lack of ) decided to remove the bridges from the 4 binding posts on my M60s when I first got them. I figured since I wasn't bi-wiring it wouldn't make a difference. Shows how much I know...

All this time I've been running my M60s with one pair of speaker wire without the bridge. After a quick email to Brent, he stated you should leave the bridge in place or else it will hinder performance! I had no idea and now I'm itching to go home a put those bridges back on.

My question is how much of performance gain or loss is possible with and without the bridge? Didn't want to ask Axiom since they would never think of doing that, but curious if anyone made the same mistake I did. Or can anyone try removing the bridge and offer your opinions on how different the sound is?

Thanks

Wouldn't you be powering EITHER the tweet/mid OR the Woofers if you wired to only one set of the terminals without the bridge? I wouldn't think the effect would be subtle. I think you are supposed to remove the bridge only if you are biwiring or biamping.

Tom is right on that.I would think you will notice one heck of an improvment once you get the other half of the speakers working.

Umm.. depending on which posts you had the speaker wire hooked up to (I'm assuming the lower, you may have missed the tweeters not being powered, but there's no way you missed the woofers not being powered)... you were just listening to half your speakers.

And don't you DARE call them bright when those tweeters kick in!

Bren R.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. If you read the brochure that came with the speakers, I believe it states only to remove them if you plan to drive the woofers seperately from the tweeters/midrange, or bi-wiring. If you take the bridge out, depending on which terminals your using, I don't believe you'll be driving one or the other. My guess is that you are driving the tweeter/midrange, otherwise you would definately notice a problem. So, if your woofers are not getting any juice, you probably have a sub that is picking up the low frequencies, that is why you didn't notice. Once you hook up the bridge, you should notice a huge improvement. Make sure you have your crossover set right.

Does this mean that hashts was actually driving a pair of M30s?

Lol nice one Bob.

Damn now I feel like a total maroon!

According to my speaker manual...

Bi-amping: '..............Connect one stereo amp to the lower set of binding post on each speaker (the woofers), and the second stereo amp to the upper pair of binding post (the tweeters) on each.'

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Damn now I feel like a total maroon!

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Well then your in GREAT company hashts!

See there at least you have something to get excited about whenever you get home! Enjoy!

I disagree... I think he had the tweeter and mid wired, but not the woofers. I think you'd notice a speaker with only woofers! The tweeter and mid running would make it an M2, with a really big resonant area... Probably not half bad!