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Title: AARGH! Speakers too close to monitor!
Post by: JCKnife on March 21, 2005, 09:58:13 pm

Been building this cab for 4 months. Tonight finally got the guts in and played for a couple hours. Suddenly noticed color distortion in top-right corner of screen. I'm assuming the speaker is too close because I've been using the monitor (sitting on a desk) for about a month with no problems. It's a WG-D9200.

The color distortion appears worst against red and green. Doesn't show up much in blue, and not at all in white.

When I degauss, it seems to get a little better.

Questions:

1. If I KEEP degaussing, will the color distortion go away? Is degaussing bad for the screen?
2. Should I hold down the degauss key for a long time or just pop it quick?
3. Is my monitor shot? Anything I can do?
4. When it comes to the rebuild, how far away SHOULD the speakers be? (Klipsch promedia 2.1 or whatever was in the Project Arcade book)

Damnit, now I have to either totally rip out the speaker shelf and possibly replace the monitor. I'm pretty bummed. Here's a pic. Any advice much appreciated.

(http://home.att.net/~jckpics/problem.jpg)

Title: Re: AARGH! Speakers too close to monitor!
Post by: cholin on March 21, 2005, 10:10:15 pm

Okay, well I dont know much, but I know that you should get shielded speakers to prevent this.  Degaussing will fix the problem if you keep doing it.  Your monitor shouldnt be shot.

Title: Re: AARGH! Speakers too close to monitor!
Post by: JCKnife on March 21, 2005, 10:31:20 pm

It is getting better, but I can still see it.

Dang, I used the speakers right out of the book!

If I rip out and redo my speaker shelf, will a couple more inches away do the trick? Seems to have only been a problem with the right one.

Shielded speakers? Any way I can "shield" the ones I have?

Title: Re: AARGH! Speakers too close to monitor!
Post by: tommy on March 22, 2005, 06:45:58 am

Take the speakers out and see what kind of picture you get, if the picture is better then you know what you must do.

Title: Re: AARGH! Speakers too close to monitor!
Post by: JCKnife on March 22, 2005, 08:30:18 am

Oh yeah, I took the speakers out right away. Over a few hours of play time and several times hitting degauss, the problem went away. Now I'm shopping for shielded speakers.

Sorry I freaked out last night. I thought the color distortion was permanent.

So I was up until about 3:00 playing for the first time on my actual cabinet (I set the speakers on top). Man, I thought the buildup took a lot of time!