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In Reply to: RE: Speaker re-building posted by marco916 on June 29, 2009 at 09:08:44

Enclosures & woofers need to be designed & mated to each other, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Same for crossover circuts; they are intended to blend specific drivers into a single sound source & are thus specific to their drivers & enclosure. Typical re-build procedure is to replace existing & aged-out electro-chemical constructed capacitors with same capacitance value new capacitors. Replace age-deteriorated woofer foam surround cone suspensions with new foam kits. Clean any age-oxidated adjustable level controls. If you out-right replace any drivers (woofers, tweeter) you WILL need to re-design an enclosure & crossover circut for them = an all new speaker design (such design is NOT a project for the novice). PE individual drivers are for experienced hobbiests that design their own speakers from scratch & often using computer programs (see the PE Projects page for examples). There are specialized DIY speaker-building web forums, but the Audio Asylum is not one of them. Parts Express has one such forum & so does Madisound (another source for individual drivers).
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Edits: 06/29/09 06/29/09

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RE: Wrong Way - marco916 10:24:20 06/29/09 (3)
- RE: Wrong Way - Ron Oehlert 11:26:29 06/29/09 (2)
  - RE: Wrong Way - marco916 21:21:00 06/29/09 (1)
    - Right Way - Ron Oehlert 14:27:07 06/30/09 (0)

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