Typhoon Maxima Series 4.1

Umm…anyone who’s been following my blog will know how I used to rant about my Typhoon 2.1 system. The equation’s kinda changed know. I went for Access 2007 and won a 4.1 speaker set for coming first in Audio ‘Editing‘/Scrambling (ref. Access 07 ) When I saw that it was Typhoon, I was a bit skeptical about the quality. You see, the earlier set of 2.1 speakers I had from Typhoon required 2 equalisers to make them worth listening to, but even after all that, didn’t quite work out. So I was dreading a similar thing with these speakers.

Turns out…I was actually impressed.

These speakers literally made me eat my words about Typhoon. Almost.

Let me get to details. Step-by-step, from unpacking to performance.

Unpacking

Only some Styrofoam, to protect from some occasional banging towards transit. No big. But when while taking out the speakers, I noticed that one of the rear speakers was rattling when I shook it. By rattling, I mean rattling big time. I instantly knew that the magnet inside had come off. So, before my woofer, and 2 front speakers were out, I had already ripped apart one of the rear surround speakers (told ya I’m a tech nut!)

Apparently, this was the condition…

• Viel not held in place properly to frame
• Stand very loose and comes off easily
• Speaker magnet not secured onto frame
• 2 screws of magnet frame rattling around in frame
• 2 screws attached to magnet frame, but with a broken part of speaker plastic attached
• Wires soldered onto magnet broken

Basically, it was one very sorry satellite speaker.

I hooked up the 2 front speakers and the woofer anyway, to test the sound. The woofer came with a Bass control, which was a relief, because Typhoon woofers have been known to be notoriously underpowered. So I cranked the bass all the way up, and played a high bass track like Smack My Bi**h Up. Sounded amazing. Also the satellite speakers sounded decent. They weren’t flat like the old set I had.

Contentment finalement.

For a day or two, I had a 4.2 setup, using the old 2.1 speakers as rear speakers, connected to my sound card, and the new 2.1s as front speakers. I switched off the equaliser. The disadvantage of this was that my old woofer gave near to nil bass.

Stupid woofer.

So then is set down to repair my speakers.

The Culprit

 

I used one tube of FeviKwik and some insulation tape.

Step 1: Connecting the wires to the magnet. Used some insulation tape to keep it in place.

Step 2: Fevikwiking it in place

My Saviour

 

Waiting…

 

IT WORKS!!!

 

With that, 90% of my work was done, I tested it, It worked. Unfortunately, after putting it in the speaker’s plastic body, the wire came loose, and the satellite didn’t work. As a workaround, I had to use insulation tape to keep the wire from moving. Worked, and now I’m happy!

The Tech Nut now has a 6.2 system. Or rather…6.1^1/2