One Cone Mis-aligned?

[Squishman]

Speakers should not be shipped in that condition. There is nothing to hold the cone in place while the speaker carton is thrown around by the shipper. That allows the cone to move around freely and the voice coil can then rub against the magnet and scrape the insulation off of the wire. (Typically its enamel coated wire.) If you buy speakers like that again, instruct the shipper to lay the speaker on its back, center the cone and then tape it in place with a low tack tape.

Good to know!

 

[Verdinut]

Speakers should not be shipped in that condition. There is nothing to hold the cone in place while the speaker carton is thrown around by the shipper. That allows the cone to move around freely and the voice coil can then rub against the magnet and scrape the insulation off of the wire. (Typically its enamel coated wire.) If you buy speakers like that again, instruct the shipper to lay the speaker on its back, center the cone and then tape it in place with a low tack tape.

That's not the best way to securely ship a cone speaker. Over the years, I sold several Altec and JBL speaker drivers, and a few were shipped to Italy.

A safe way of boxing a pair of woofers is to bolt them together face to face to protect the cones, and use bubble wrap and plastic peanuts to fill the box. When you have only one cone driver to ship, I use an MDF board to screw the driver to and which I place at the bottom of the box, then bubble wrap and plastic peanuts.

 

[Squishman]

Not sure why you want to spend so much time/effort with speakers that aren't that special....

Those ADS L400's are super clear and good bass for a bookshelf, but to me they are fatiguing. The Infinities with the Polycell tweeters are more natural sounding and musical. A few months ago, I bought two sets of RS-1000's for surrounds and heights and upgraded all four with Midwest's replacement woofers, which are superior woofers than the originals. Then a funny thing happened. My AVR has the capability where you can select any pair in the system for two-channel listening. Flipping to a set of the RS-1000's, they sounded better than my coveted Klipsch La Scalas! Then I brought out my Heresy III's and the Infinities were better than those too! I was thrown for a loop and decided I guess I am no longer a "Klipsch guy"! I sold my Klipsch Heritage stuff and got a sweet deal on some Kefs.
So that's what happened how I decided I like this line of Infinities so much.

 

[Eppie]

That's not the best way to securely ship a cone speaker. Over the years, I sold several Altec and JBL speaker drivers, and a few were shipped to Italy.

A safe way of boxing a pair of woofers is to bolt them together face to face to protect the cones, and use bubble wrap and plastic peanuts to fill the box. When you have only one cone driver to ship, I use an MDF board to screw the driver to and which I place at the bottom of the box, then bubble wrap and plastic peanuts.

That works for new speakers, but the drivers he received had no foam surrounds at all. You need to secure the cone so that the voice coil will not rub against the magnet. I would not trust foam peanuts to stay in place.

 

[Verdinut]

That works for new speakers, but the drivers he received had no foam surrounds at all. You need to secure the cone so that the voice coil will not rub against the magnet. I would not trust foam peanuts to stay in place.

How do you know that foam peanuts don't stay in place? First, the drivers are wrapped in the bubble wrap, then plastic peanuts are added in the box and packed tight, nothing moves. That's the best and safest way to pack used cone speaker drivers. I learned that from a friend who owns a UPS store. As for a driver with no foam surround, I doubt that the voice coil would be damaged in one shipping trip.

 

[Squishman]

Midwest shipped the surrounds, dust caps, shims and glue plus the RS-2000 replacement woofers yesterday and they arrived already today. Surprised because I got the tracking number after 4 pm. Bringing the repair parts to Mark tomorrow. I installed the woofers and these are nice sounding speakers for my computer! Got them for around $40 after the guy sent the refund. Then $100 for the woofers. I'd say that turned out nice.
Edit: I meant I got the tracking number yesterday late in the day so I didn't think it was even picked up yet. Great shipping service at Midwest.

 

[lovinthehd]

Hopefully TLS can get you sorted.

 

[Squishman]

Sitting at my computer playing the Outlaws "Green Grass and High Tides" pretty loudly with the 8" Yamaha sub at my feet turned up just barely for some fill and these RS-2000's most definitely wail. They sound great and you'd think they were large speakers.
Of course you know for sure what's next.... that's right, Skynyrd "Free Bird"!

 

[Squishman]

So @TLS Guy fixed those 8 inch woofers from the Infinity RS-3000's. He had some trouble getting the shims into one of them but with some ingenuity, he got it done. He can explain in better detail what was up with those drivers. I was going to attempt to do it based on some videos I watched. But he offered to do the project for me because he said that those videos were definitely not the correct procedure. I have yet to actually hear the speakers that they came out of because as it turns out, one of my tweeters has no output. An exact replacement is not available on ebay. I did hear from Infinity today about if there happened to be one available to order. They obviously said "no", but gave me an alternative part number, also nowhere to be found. But Mark found a direct replacement tweeter from Simply Speakers so I ordered a pair of those. Hopefully they will sound as good or better than the original tweeters. Those will arrive mid to late next week. I am looking forward to finally being able to hear those speakers.