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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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I see, so you can't simply replace components in the speaker box, you have to build the box around the speakers in order to get the correct frequency responses. What about if I just match the components close enough to the current hardware in the box, will that work, I'm not looking to get Audiophile performance, but something in between.
Without driver responce & T/S parameters, how might you match another? Fits-the-hole is not a useful criteria & impedance is of no great matter. Dusters' reply is on the mark.
Thanks guys, saved me lots of time and money, I think I'll go HotRods advice and just get the DIY kits with the matching componets.
There are lots of options in the kit market, PE is not the only vendor so shop around.
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