Corrosion connection can be a problem from crossover to speakers like you know. Polyswitch damage may be answer. Can you bypass the switch...

I wasn’t going to mention it in this thread, but I will since the speakers are sold.   I bought a pair of Verity Audio Parsifal Ovations. They will absolutely not work with anything close to low power. I got them at a price too good to pass up and I’ll say I am smitten.

Wow so selling all your amps and your beloved speakers. What’s the change in direction?

Sold

other speaker is sounding great- funny part is the one that sounds great has water damage and rust on box and grill, the one that sounds bad looks much better.    go figure...  

@Deang I’m not clear why you are pointing me to this. It is basically displaying PWR vs THD+n levels at different test frequencies.           @Deang  As you said if you go to Best Buy site information is limited to just a PWR Rating without Distortion or Bandwidth parameters specified but for example if you go to the manufacturer website like this Denton Model you will find the following specifications.   Notice how they have given a valid PWR specification of 90w with 8-ohm Impedance, (20hz to 20kHz) Bandwidth and 0.08% T.H.D. Distortion specifications. Then they start playing games with the 125w with it being specified at 6-ohm, 1kHz, 0.7% T.H.D which is a clear indicator that the amplifier will not be capable of 125w from (20hz to 20kHz) bandwidth.   This is clearly advertising meant to deceive the naive consumers.   IMHO its Buyer beware when manufactures use these practices..!!   I think I’ve spent about as much time on this as I care to on this subject.. 🙂 miketn   Brochure:     MANUAL:        

Guess other speaker alright. Dean, others talking about poly switch recently. Guess you verified any connection on crossover by physically using screwdriver to un and retighten.

@geoff.

He veneered the top and sides of the boards. I felt like I was doing surgery. I covered as much of the veneer as possible while soldering.    I also charged for the autoformers and extra for packing since they were going across the border. I think actual labor was $200 per board.   He’s basically selling for cost of the parts. Pretty good deal from where I’m sitting.  

Need vs. want.