[cporada]

I've come across a good deal of discussion letely regarding grounding the frame of drivers on loudspeakers and am curious if anyone can explain to me exactly how one does this.  I know Buddy "the SET Man" on this forum has his drivers grounded in his photo gallery and am curious if he or someone else could walk me through doing this.  I know you attach a wire to a screw mounting the driver to the cabinet, but I don't understand to what you attach the other end of the wire.
Thanks
Chris

[Mike Dzurko]

Hmm, maybe I'm missing something here, but it makes 0 sense. I can see possibly damping drivers with some sort of "goo" . . .  I can see bracing the driver's structure into the cabinet itself, but grounding?

[matt cecil]

I've heard of this too but want to hear from some who have done this.  In the past few weeks I've grounded 2 things I never even thought would benefit the sound...Lp's via a Dustbug and my stereo rack.

I have both the grounding cables attached to my phono preamps ground lug...so my turntable, Dustbug & rack are all grounded to the same earth/ground lug.   The dustbug is simply phenomenal, but i'm in a skyscraper in chicago...the air is soooooo dry.  I grounded my rack on a whim - the noise floor has magically lowered and deep bass is deeper.  How?  I have no clue...

My guess is that you would plug the grounding cables either into your preamps ground lug, like i have described.   Grounded drivers are gonna look hysterical!

[cporada]

I don't have any idea what this would do, but from what I understand from discussion going on on Audio Asylum, the grounding is alleviating the effects of magnetic induction caused by the speaker magnet working upon the iron basket of the driver. It seems there is also a possibility that it may help with EMI/RFI as well, but the jury is still out on this one.
Any help from people who have tried this or have more understanding of the electrical aspects of this than I do (not difficult!)  would be great
Thanks
Chris

[SET Man]

Hey!

   Chris, I see you are ready for another fun tweak for your speaker

Okay, people here is the original thread...

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=30685.0

    This have been around for a while now. With my single driver speaker without xover I could hear some improvment over the full spectrum.

    Like I say on the original thread I did couple comparisions since I use alagator clip on the outside so its easy to do on and off thing. And yes, I feel that the sound is better with the driver chassis/basket grounded to the negative ( - ) terminal

   Why this work? And how? Honestly I'm not really sure But it does!

  moray james, he seem to have more knowleage and how to ground the driver a then I do... just read his reply.

  Anyway, I don't know how this will turn out on other speaker system but for me I still have those gator clip connected on my speakers If anyone trying this please let me know the result

  Sure, this sound crazy but this definately make more sense to me than some other voodoo tweaks out there..... "magic pebbles" anyone?

Take care,
Buddy

PS

I think this thread might be better in the "Lab" section. But as long as this circle moderator doesn't mind than that is okay

[cporada]

Hi Buddy,
COuld you tell me where on the Fostex supertweeters you attached the grounding wire; the mounting flange with the screw holes on mine is plastic, so that doesn't seem to be a good choice
Thanks
Chris