I opened up my speakers to replace the wires my dog chewed through, and noticed it on the bottom one. Would snipping it off increase the volume, or would that change the frequencies and mess with the sound quality? The speaker itself is identical to the one above it.
Leave it there. Speakers are very specifically designed to work at a certain wattage. It might work if you remove the resistor but it also might sound like shit and possibly ruin the speaker. Why even mess with it?
I was asking more out of curiosity than anything, I don't know a whole lot about this subject. Google wasn't really much help. Now that I think about, since it's AC, the resistor would also have an effect on the top speakers as well. Though the top speaker should still be receiving full power part of the time. Perhaps this the secret to Logitech's "FDD2" technology my speakers are supposed to have.
I'm pretty sure that just keeps it from overpowering the coil and blowing the speaker out. FDD just means each unit has 2 speakers in it.
Well like I said, the top speaker which is identical to the bottom speaker (minus the resistor of course), would be receiving full power part of the time. FDD2 is supposed to be their tech that creates a uniform sound from the dual drivers (2 speakers in the box), as compared to normal dual drivers. Right now I'm just guessing that's what the resistor is there for though. I was hoping someone on here might be familiar with the topic though before I bothered messing with it. I wouldn't mind squeezing some more volume out my speakers, as sometimes they're not as loud as I'd like. I supposed after I get around to soldering the new wires on I might snip the resistors off and check it out. It shouldn't damage the speakers since one gets full power part of the time anyway, and I can always reattach them if I don't like the sound quality.
You should only need one resistor for both speakers since it works on the entire circuit, not just the component immediately following the resistor. I'd leave it just to be safe. Removing it could potentially be a fire hazard (I'm not sure, though). Regardless, it's probably not safe for the drivers, and those don't look to be what I would consider cheap speakers. I mean, do what you want, they're yours, but I'd play it safe if I was you. Edit: grats on 420 posts
Thanks bro ^_^ of course now it's 421 =( So the resistor, when wired like this, will actually increase the resistance of the entire circuit, and even affect the components before it? I would think that it would only affect the first speaker when the direction of the current switched. Then again, electricity can be a weird thing and I only know a little bit on the subject.
Yep it applies resistance to the whole thing. Electricity is weird indeed. I'm still kind of lost even after passing a year-long electronics course in high school. Edit: that is a weird way to wire it, though, as it's parallel to the driver, so I'm not actually 100% sure...
Is that not a capacitor? lol Thats no resistor ive ever seen, unless they made one custom to fit into a cap's insides... Also why would you question what the company does? also that seems wired right. its a parallel its basically this but looks funny....
Ah yeah I was on my phone (on sprints 3g) so I didn't see the pic. That's definitely a capacitor. I don't know why that would be there, but I don't know a whole lot about audio.
exactly i was like wtf is this all these guys saying its a resistor.... also yea its supposed to be there i can say that much....
Wow, thanks guys, that makes a lot more sense. I though it was a resistor in there to raise the impedance. The only capacitors I was familiar with were the big ones wired up in car stereos. I guess this is a small version of such? I wasn't expecting something like that to be hanging of the speaker in the box. I opened it up and was like "wtf is this?"
This is a crossover capacitor. It prevents the speakers from being damaged by lower frequencies they can not handle.
