blown woofer need replacement

[lbolts20]

I picked up a pair of phase technology t5 floor speakers and a pc center speaker used. They sounded pretty good until tonight. I got home before the wife and kids and decided to test the t5's out at a higher volume. Now I need to buy 2 replacement 6.5" woofers. Looking for ideas on what and where to buy them. these speaker will be primarily used for home theater listening. Just couldn't help myself so I had to play a little music through them to see how they responded.

 

[TLS Guy]

I picked up a pair of phase technology t5 floor speakers and a pc center speaker used. They sounded pretty good until tonight. I got home before the wife and kids and decided to test the t5's out at a higher volume. Now I need to buy 2 replacement 6.5" woofers. Looking for ideas on what and where to buy them. these speaker will be primarily used for home theater listening. Just couldn't help myself so I had to play a little music through them to see how they responded.

You can't replace the woofers. Every speaker has to have the box designed to the driver and the crossover custom designed. A replacement speaker would have to have the exact Thiel/Small parameters and acoustic roll off to be a replacement. That is not going to happen. You need to have your current woofers reconed, by a service such as Orange County speakers or Phase Technology.

 

[Gimpy Ric]

Try out The Speaker Exchange I've used them to recone JBL 8" and 12" woofers years ago, and have even been to the facility once in Tampa Florida. Its really cool .

 

[lbolts20]

thanks for the info guys. I learned something today. I always thought when you blew a speaker you had to replace the entire speaker. I was doing some checking on those sites and checked out my speakers about 1/2 way around the woofers the foam is seperated so I assume they would refoam those.


I am doing some research to see if someone in Wisconsin repairs them to save on shipping. Anyone know a place that will do this in Wisconsin? I live in Neenah and wouldn't mind traveling to Green Bay, Wausau, Milwaukee etc to drop them off.

 

[TLS Guy]

thanks for the info guys. I learned something today. I always thought when you blew a speaker you had to replace the entire speaker. I was doing some checking on those sites and checked out my speakers about 1/2 way around the woofers the foam is seperated so I assume they would refoam those.


I am doing some research to see if someone in Wisconsin repairs them to save on shipping. Anyone know a place that will do this in Wisconsin? I live in Neenah and wouldn't mind traveling to Green Bay, Wausau, Milwaukee etc to drop them off.

You could refoam them yourself and save even more money. There are recent threads on this on this forum. Here is a recent post of mine on how to do it.

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=424392&postcount=6http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=424392&postcount=6

Madisound at Madison WI do speaker repairs, they will also support you through it.

http://www.madisound.com