Hey guys,
I have a pair of Onix Rocket 450 speakers and one of them was damaged recently. Actually only one driver was damaged and needs to be replaced. Does anyone know where I can find a replacement driver? Original is preferred, but I realize they may be hard to find.
Would there be any viable alternatives to this driver? I think the drivers used in the 450's were custom made by AV123, so I could not just put in any mid range driver in there right?
Thanks for any advice/help you can give.
You are correct, you need an exact replacement driver. Since AV 123 is wound up and the owner in the clink, you have a bad problem.
The tweeter is Vifa, but the bass mids are custom. I have no idea where old shifty sourced them from.
So you will have to see if a driver eventually comes up on eBay. That is probably a long shot.
If the cone or voice coil is damaged, I doubt there are parts about to repair the damaged driver. See if someone like Orange County speaker repair has parts. I would doubt they do.
Failing that you will have to part the speakers out.
The only other solution is a very difficult reverse engineering.
We would have to find drivers with T/S parameters that might work in that box size. Almost certainly the ports would need changing. A new crossover would have to be designed and built. All four drivers would need changing and both crossover redesigned and changed. This is a big task.
If you don't want to put a lot of time and money into the problem, I would part them out and get something else.
As I understand it, they were not the greatest speaker in the world, so you should be able to get something better.
If you want to do a redesign, then the first step is careful cabinet measurement so the internal volume can be calculated. You need to take careful port measurements.
Then you need to send one of the working drivers to someone who can measure the T/S parameters of the speakers, and measure the acoustic responses.
