Location: South West UK
Posts: 3
I'm Peter.
Hi Peter and welcome.
I never found out any information relating to the crossover and a circuit schematic for the PM450P a similar design is the Rogers PM510 but never found any information on that one.
Simon
Location: South West UK
Posts: 3
I'm Peter.
Hi Simon, thanks for the response. I must confess the 510 had passed me by completely. Is it active (3 pin xlr)?
I have had a pair of PM450E's since the early 80's although they have been in store for a considerable period until recently. I have just completed fully re-storing the amps, crossovers and speakers (all new caps. out of tolerance resistors etc.) and they are back up and running. The PM450E's actually had separate crossovers inside the speakers as opposed to being fitted inside the Quad amplifiers and I was trying to source some information regarding the crossovers as I believe these were produced under the Swisstone label although I expect everything in reality was manufactured at the same source.
The sound engineer who I really owe for restoring these would like to have a look at a circuit diagram if I could hold of one...............
Regards and thanks
Peter
Mike O'Brien (O'Brien Hifi) WAS Swisstone, so maybe a call to him, if he's still around, may yield some info. As far as I understand it, the LS5/8 was the pukka BBC version and this was fully active, with the active crossover shoe-horned into a Quad 405 case, one per side iirc. Later ones went to an equally shoehorned Chord 800E.
My experience of the 'domesticated' big Chartwells (Rogers bought Chartwell I think either as Swisstone, or shortly before the Swisstone era- an interesting story that may be told on the Falcon website, I'm not sure)) is that they can sound thick toned and muffled all too easily, and NEED high stands and free-space to breathe properly. The smaller 5/9's I have are just the same and my pair are Jeckyl and Hyde, sounding boomy and clogged in my workroom, yet singing freely and open in other rooms (same system driving them too).
http://www.markhennessy.co.uk/rogers/ls58.htm
http://www.markhennessy.co.uk/rogers/index.htm
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