Parts, all kinds

[troppo]

Hello all;

I pulled the grills off of my pair of 2ax and right off I see a crushed tweeter dome and two woofers with decayed surrounds. Who has the best replacement parts and service?? I'm on the West coast, not that location matters all that much.

Troppo

[JKent]

Hi Troppo

The woofers can be refoamed. Lots of discussion about that in these pages. Best kits (IMHO) are from MSound. Tweeters are another matter--my 2ax's have hard domes. The problem with most of those is the foam suspension breaks loose. How about a photo of your tweeters?

Kent

[fordf250]

If you go to the "links" section, on the home page, you will find "Carl's custom speakers." I sent him my six cone drivers, from my AR9's, to have the surrounds replaced, and a superlative job was done. Each speaker was sent back with an individual graph, showing fs. and impedance plots-I found his prices very reasonable, and the work top notch.

By the way, I live in northern Illinois, so I shipped a little distance-if you ship your drivers to someone for repair, I find FEDEX, somewhat more "humane". as far as package handling is concerned.

[michiganpat]

foam surround 2ax's have the 3/4" (paper?) dome tweet. if it still makes sound, you may be able to carefully pull the dome back out with a needle.

refoaming isn't too tough, get an Msound kit and have at it. while you have the woofers out, clean the pots, and put new 4 and 6 uf caps in the speakers.

if the tweet is bad, ebay is your best bet.

if you want new, this one http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=297-417 is a highly recommended replacement with IIRC a .15mH inductor in parallel for the 2ax. if you replace, I'd replace both tweets to keep the sound the same between the speakers...

[RoyC]

.15mH inductor in parallel for the 2ax.

Hi Pat,

.05mh is the appropriate inductor value.

Roy

[michiganpat]

thanks for the correction Roy.....once you pass 35, the mind is the first thing to go, I guess