Re: Speaker Questions



"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:

> I would have posted this on one of the audio newsgroups, but I didn't
> want to get into discussions about Monster cables and other such crap.
>
> I have an auto stereo speaker mounted in the driver's door with a broken
> cone suspension. Its a 6" diameter, full range, 4 ohm, inverted cone
> unit rated at 20 Watts. I just pulled it out yesterday (which required a
> significant amount of door disassembly), so I haven't checked with the
> dealer (Toyota) for their price. I took it around to a couple of the
> local car audio places and nobody there has ever seen an inverted cone
> speaker before. Nor do they have a shallow speaker which will fit (about
> 1.25" deep). In anticipation for an outlandish price from the dealer,
> I'm doing a little research first.
>
> Does anybody have any good leads on sources for inverted cone or other
> shallow construction speakers?
>
> There's one other approach I can take. There is a small shop nearby that
> does speaker repair, re-coning, etc. Back in the old days, some of my
> guitar playing friends used to have speakers re-coned (a little too
> frequently for the good of their hearing IMHO) and this was an
> economical alternative to buying new speakers. But these were several
> hundred dollars apiece (per 'driver', not the entire enclosure) back in
> the 1980s. I'm guessing that my speaker is equivalent to something on
> the order of $50 to $100 a pair in a standard configuration (deep cone).
> What sorts of experience do you folks have with speaker reconditioning?

I've had the suspension replaced on speakers before.

Foam suspensions 'rot' you see, so replacement is quite common.

I can't even imagine what this 'inverted cone' looks like. I doubt you'll
find a second source.

Graham

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