Infinity Delta speakers: where to find? similar alternatives?

[Porcupine]

A couple days ago a disaster befell my room and my beloved pair of Infinity Kappa 5.1 speakers were severely damaged (water pipe burst in house, room flooded in water, speakers soaked up water, wood cabinets cracked and bursted, woofer foam surrounds disintegrated completely).

Now I'm looking for replacement speakers. Another new set of Kappa 5.1 would be fine, but they are no longer made. I noticed that Infinity afterwards produced the Delta series, which appear to be similar/successors to the Kappa series I had. But those seem to be discontinued as well. Is there anywhere I can still find a pair of Delta 40 or Delta 60 series speakers (new if possible)? I am about to go store-hunting in Hawaii, but is there really any chance I might find them locally? I have searched on-line for Delta or Kappa series speakers for over a day, to no avail.

Help I am desperate now I cannot listen to music!

Are there any similar alternatives to the Delta series that I could buy? I really liked the sound of my Kappas, and don't want to have to downgrade speakers, yet I don't want to spend more than $2000.

I'm looking for floorstanding speakers that aren't too huge. Bass is not an issue; I couldn't care less about bass. Even if low freq response were 80 Hz I would not care: my room has terrible bass resonances so I turn down the bass level out of my Onkyo TX-8511 amplifier as low as it goes, all the time. But I love high-frequency, and don't think I could be happy with anything less than the EMIT tweeters of Infinity, which go up to the 30000 Hz range. Do any other companies produce affordable speakers with ribbon tweeters besides Infinity?

If I have to I will consider buying more expensive planar systems, but prefer not to. Are there any relatively affordable ribbon or electrostatic speakers out there? I don't care about low-freq response and prefer a slim design for my bedroom anyway. Thanks in advance for anyone who responds to me.

 

[MacManNM]

A couple days ago a disaster befell my room and my beloved pair of Infinity Kappa 5.1 speakers were severely damaged (water pipe burst in house, room flooded in water, speakers soaked up water, wood cabinets cracked and bursted, woofer foam surrounds disintegrated completely).

Now I'm looking for replacement speakers. Another new set of Kappa 5.1 would be fine, but they are no longer made. I noticed that Infinity afterwards produced the Delta series, which appear to be similar/successors to the Kappa series I had. But those seem to be discontinued as well. Is there anywhere I can still find a pair of Delta 40 or Delta 60 series speakers (new if possible)? I am about to go store-hunting in Hawaii, but is there really any chance I might find them locally? I have searched on-line for Delta or Kappa series speakers for over a day, to no avail.

Help I am desperate now I cannot listen to music!

Are there any similar alternatives to the Delta series that I could buy? I really liked the sound of my Kappas, and don't want to have to downgrade speakers, yet I don't want to spend more than $2000.

I'm looking for floorstanding speakers that aren't too huge. Bass is not an issue; I couldn't care less about bass. Even if low freq response were 80 Hz I would not care: my room has terrible bass resonances so I turn down the bass level out of my Onkyo TX-8511 amplifier as low as it goes, all the time. But I love high-frequency, and don't think I could be happy with anything less than the EMIT tweeters of Infinity, which go up to the 30000 Hz range. Do any other companies produce affordable speakers with ribbon tweeters besides Infinity?

If I have to I will consider buying more expensive planar systems, but prefer not to. Are there any relatively affordable ribbon or electrostatic speakers out there? I don't care about low-freq response and prefer a slim design for my bedroom anyway. Thanks in advance for anyone who responds to me.

Sorry to hear about your misfortune. Why don't you just build new cabinets, and but replacement woofers? you can use the rest of the drivers, and the crossover from your old system.

 

[Porcupine]

I'm not all that familiar with building and repairing speakers. I've done a little bit of consumer research on speaker prices and technologies, but I'm not that knowledgeable about many audio details and things.

I think building a new cabinet is out of the question for me. I'd probably do something wrong and ruin or mess up my speakers. Just refoaming the woofers sounds easy enough, though I've never done it before. I might buy a refoaming kit for them. The woofer cones appear fine, though I worry I might have damaged the voice coils (one woofer blew/popped completely out of the socket when I first turned on my speakers after the water damage -- I was stupid and tried to test my speakers without realizing how severely damaged the foams were...they disintegrated and blew out instantly).

I think the damage is enough that it's probably better for me to just get new speakers, hopefully with improved quality if I can find what I want. I'll probably keep the Kappas around though and tinker with them during spare time. If I fix them up someday, I can always use them as terrific surround speakers.

 

[Porcupine]

Anyone have Bohlender-Graebener speakers?

I spent a lot of time today searching local audio stores. No Infinity products, whether new or discontinued, as I expected. But one place introduced me to the Bohlender-Graebener Z series speakers, which are priced nearly identically to the Kappa speakers I lost, and seem to have fairly similar features and design. Ribbon tweeters, Cone Woofers...only a 2-way design instead of Kappa's 3 or 4-way designs, but seem to be of higher quality and probably superior to the Kappas in many other ways.

Anyone have any experience with these speakers to give a recommendation? I think these are fairly new models...not too many Internet reviews on the Z series yet.

 

[Tex-amp]

I haven't heard the Z series but one of the audio mags picked it as the best budget speaker they reviewed last year.

 

[Porcupine]

I sort of fixed my Kappas a couple days ago woohoo! I re-foamed the woofers myself, 1st time but it worked great. I think they sound about the same as before but I can't be sure because that relies on memory (and I've also moved my speakers to a new location, maybe altering bass balance). Cabinets are still warped and cracked but that does not seem to be affected their sound much. I don't hear the terrible cabinet resonances I feared. In any case these are now my "junk" speakers....since I have bought both a pair of Bohlender-Graebener Z1 bookshelfs and Z7 towers to replace the Kappas, and they sound a lot better. I will never get polypropylene cones (Infinity) again they suck. Yay!