I've got an older set of speakers, if I took a picture of em would you guys be able to say if they are good or not?

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Sure, I'll give it a world, also post brand and model# take a closer picture of the serial# plate that has the manufacturing date as well.

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Nice bro, that looks like a great set-up. One other question, now. 8)

You said you suggest going with active speakers, should I get a decent pair of active speakers for about the same price that I could get an amp and a pair of passive speakers? I don't plan on adding any floor speakers at this point, so I'd be going overboard with the amp?

Cheers bro, appreciate the help!

I plan on painting them, I like em cause they are big and solid!

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Good looking speaker, can you get a close up of that plate that has the brand name, I couldn't quite make out what it said. Also get a picture of the binding posts.

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Originally posted by Omegasox Nice bro, that looks like a great set-up. One other question, now. 8) You said you suggest going with active speakers, should I get a decent pair of active speakers for about the same price that I could get an amp and a pair of passive speakers? I don't plan on adding any floor speakers at this point, so I'd be going overboard with the amp? Cheers bro, appreciate the help!

I'd go with an amp and separate passive monitors, 'cause the less things you have in one unit, the less chance of break downs. What happens if you blow out a horn or the woofer, with active speakers it will either cost you arm and a legg to fix it, or you'll have to buy a new one and most likely it will be the one that is sold only in pairs. With passive speakers, it will be much cheaper to replace 'em. Or the opposite supoose your active monitors short out the built in amp? well now you'll have to replace the whole thing, but if an amp is separate, less chances of it shortening out or breaking and it will be much cheaper to replace. How big of a room do you have, that is how much clear sound do you want? Put it this way, studio in my house is 22' by 17' thus I have monitors and two big floor speakers and two amps. Just something for you to ponder about.

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dang, that plate picture turned out bad, I can get you a new one if you wish!

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Originally posted by DJ Tranz Not so, passive speakers don't have anything but the skeletal structure(woofer and cone or woofer, mid-range, and tweeter) and enclosure. Unless specifically stated that an electronic crossover is built in, passive speaker won't have, 'cause crossovers are electronic. My floor(main DJ speakers) standing speakers are passive but they do have a built in 3 way crossover with a fuse(which prevents anything from blowing up the speaker, fuse will pop first and speaker will stop working immediately) but I paid the price for them 400.00 each.

Well, my BIC America DV62si passive bookshelf speakers (seen here http://www.audioreview.com/PRD_124289_4290crx.aspx they are not as shitty looking as the pic looks ) have crossovers. I know because I sent them to some dude to make my speakers sound a whole lot better. My little speaker do not have a fuse in them tho (at least I don't think they do).

BTW, these speakers sound great (after the mod). They only cost about 125 USD then another $25 to mod the x-overs. Some other passive speakers I almost got were the Acoustic Research AR-15 or AR-17 and Wharfedale Diamond 8.1 and Diamond 8.2, but in the end the BICs were the cheapest so that is what I got.

Obviously not all bookshelf speakers will have crossovers, but I think any decent speaker (either 3-way floorstander or 2-way bookshelf) should have them.

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Originally posted by DJ Tom dang, that plate picture turned out bad, I can get you a new one if you wish!

Those look like a very nice speakers and looks like they have adjustable cross-over frequency range(the two knobs on the front plate) and looks like the are fused(above the binding posts). Get yourself some nice 10gauge speaker cable and some banana plugs for best connection.

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