Hoping someone might be able to help with this doozy.
My one Naim allae speaker sounds like the tweeter is blown/not working.
Now today I went and had my naim plugs soldered onto my Naim speaker wire. When I picked up the wire the guy who did the soldering told me that whoever put the previous banana plugs on, actually had. Red connection at one end to a black connection at the other?. So I am assuming that this might be the cause of the tweeter now not working properly? I thought there was something sounding odd with the speaker, but I thought it might be a bad banana plugs (one actually broke while in the speaker).
I am just hoping someone might know if this would be the cause of the tweeter issue?
Lastly, since I clearly have an issue with the tweeter, can anyone recommend a speaker repair that could deal with these speakers in the Niagara/Hamilton/Toronto area?
Reversing the + and - (red and black) connections will affect the performance of your speakers, but it shouldn’t damage them, so once corrected correctly they should be fine. You might have to look elsewhere to find the cause of your tweeter fault.
Dan, with your newly terminated speaker cables, I would first want to establish for sure that one of the tweeters is defective. To do this, with music playing quietly, I would disconnect the cable from each of the Allae’s crossovers to the upper cabinets. Putting an ear fairly close to each tweeter, can you hear anything?
Reconnect upper boxes afterwards.
Hope you can get a fix if you need to. Someone here will be able to tell you which tweeters are fitted. I have just looked at mine but they are within a sealed box in the lower cabinet.