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glasairpilot:
Desoldered the wires from the cabinet woofer and soldered it to another pair of wires going to the powered subwoofer.  I also used heat shrink tubing to make it look nice.


As for the backbox speakers - yes, had to wire them in series to get the correct impedance.  If I am losing sound quality I cannot tell; however, I would be willing to try correct ohm speakers hooking them back up in stereo if it were to make a difference.  I do not want the full pinball kit with the unpowered subwoofer that is offered.  Open to suggestions here.


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Also, my left flipper coil stop worked loose again.  I guess I will have to use blue locktite  to keep it in place.  I made sure the lock washer was present - it was.   I had it cranked down about as hard as I could with a hex wrench.

glasairpilot:
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Also replaced the cheap single cone speakers with pioneer 2-way and a Polk powered subwoofer.


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Did you wire them in series?

And if so, don't you think you'd loose some stereo-phonics?

How did you wire in the sub-woofer?

Can you provide a link to the speakers you bought?

I'm considering a speaker upgrade as well.

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I posted the question on Pinside and was informed that MMr (as well as the original) is mono.  Stereo sound did not happen until Pinball2000 with RFM and SW1.  So, I think I am good to go.

glasairpilot:
Figured out why the left flipper coil stop hex screws kept backing out and the right side did not:


1.  The right flipper screws had blue loctite on them from the factory the left side did not.
2.  The left coil sleeve was in backwards from the factory.


Inserted the sleeve correctly and put locktite on all screws.  Perfect now.

swagger:
The exact opposite happened to me tonight. My right flipper coil stop and coil fell off while my son was playing. Took me over an hour to get it all back together, as I didn't want to remove the flipper mech and those nuts are hard to put on the underside of the mech. I put locktite on the coil stop bolts before I screwed them all back together. None was used at the factory.


If I wasn't accustomed to working on Pinballs I"d be freaking out. My game is not even 2 weeks old.

glasairpilot:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginI had my right flipper end stop fall off the other day after 6 months of play, I put it back on without loctite but will use some if it happens again, I checked the left and it seemed tight.

I upgraded my speakers with those Pioneer ones also after reading the Pinside thread, what amazes me is how much better these US$30 speakers sound and how rubbish the speakers that CGC supplied were, I wonder what they paid for them in bulk about $10 a pair? it would have been nice if they came with speakers that were up to the task already.

I have not wired up a sub yet but I'm on the lookout for one secondhand and local, so will grab one soon.

As for the Stereo question it's something I didn't think of when I wired mine up, but glad to hear that it's OK as it is.....I don't know if it would be possible to tell the difference between stereo and mono anyway with the speakers close together and the position when playing.

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Yes, the speakers are a big improvement and the subwoofer will really make the sound pop.  I can't remember ever having a flipper coil fall off before it happened on MMr.  I would like to blame it on the shaker; however, the coil sleeve in backwards did not help and my other pins have a cointaker Red Tremor shaker in them that is much more violent than the MMr shaker, so I don't know.


I suppose they keep putting in cheap speakers (probably more like $5 for a pair in bulk) because pinball historically was put in noisy arcades where you really could not discern much sound quality anyway, so why put in good speakers?  Most of these machines are for home now.

A nice LE option would be factory installed Polk, Harmon, JBL, etc backbox speakers with a built-in powered cabinet subwoofer to replace the unpowered subwoofer along with a headset jack port.  It would not be hard to do and would have great sound without having to place a subwoofer below your machine.  Might add $150 to the actual cost of the machine maximum.

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