problem klipsch sw-450 ampli

dr pepper

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• Oct 6, 2015

• #21

Crown are really good in the music biz too, you can mistreat them electrically and bounce them all over in a flight case and they still fight on sounding good.
Only one problem you have to pay for what you get.

 

Mikebits

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #22

Good work Les

 

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schmitt trigger

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #23

In 1991, I had the opportunity to visit the Crown facility in Elkhart, Indiana. I was visiting as a transformer supplier, and were preparing technical requirements for a new generation of power amplifiers.

The assembly line was spotless. And a serious, yet relaxed, work environment.
One could easily sense that employees were happy and very proud of the products they were making.

I left my company afterwards, so I ignore what happened to Crown after it was acquired by Harman. Most likely a significant amount of jobs were outsourced.

 

dr pepper

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #24

That sounds like a good place to work, I 've never heard a bad word about crown.
Not many places in the uk like that now, probably anywhere.

 

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schmitt trigger

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #25

Well, please notice that I said 1991.
Almost 25 years later, I wouldn't think that the factory is still there. The design center, perhaps. But the assembly must be gone by now to a far east subcontractor.

 

dr pepper

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #26

Yes, thats why there probably isnt anywhere like that anymore.
Not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing.
I just got myself a couple of 1/2" sockets from the same manufacturer I've been using for a long time, the new ones are naff compared to ones I've had 20 yrs, so I spose its a bad thing.

 

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schmitt trigger

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #27

I don't want to hijack this thread so let's talk about Klipsch.
A couple of years later I was driving from Dallas, TX to Hot Springs, AR. On the way, I noticed a sign that read: "Hope, Arkansas. Bill Clinton's birthplace. Population: 15,000".

So Hope's claim of fame are both the famous Klipsch folded horn loudspeakers and the 42nd president of USA

 

dr pepper

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• Oct 7, 2015

• #28

I bought speaker drivers from eminence in the us, also the name of the manufact, at the time nearly everyone in eminence worked at eminence.

 

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Nothing2NoOne

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• Dec 4, 2017

• #29

I know this thread is years old but it still shows up for problems with this sub. The varistor in question is a ZOV-07D431K.

 

Dmxtothemax

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• Feb 1, 2018

• #30

Numbers on original thermistor - MF72 identifies it as an NTC thermistor.
5D13 - 5 = ohms at 25 degrees, 13 = diameter in mm.

So it is an 5 ohm NTC thermistor made by ampron

www.mantech.co.za/datasheets/products/MF72_AMPRON.pdf