need suggestions on speaker cone replacement

[noxipoo]

i just bought from KLH speakers. These were $10 each at Bestbuy and they are much weaker and just not as good as my much more expensive klipsch. so i was wondering if someone can recommend some nice (still cheap) cones to replace the ones that came with the speaker or is it something else at fought? the speakers are running off the same receiver.

maybe i need to replace something else? crossover? any experience with similar speakers would be helpful, i just want a little better sounding speakers since i can't build a good speaker box myself.

 

[d33pt]

look on partsexpress.com for some drivers that will fit..

 

[tweakmm]

if you just change one driver your crossover frequencies are going to be out of wack
you can probably get new drivers and build a cross over and put them in the box that you have

 

[fyleow]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
if you just change one cone your crossover frequencies are going to be out of wack
you can probably get new drivers and build a cross over and put them in the box that you have

tweakmm is right but why don't you just return them and spend more money? Unless you just bought those speakers for the cabinet and nothing else you should return them. Pretty much everything will need to be changed and the cabinet itself (including any acoustic dampening material inside) will contribute to overall sound quality.

 

[noxipoo]

well for $10 the cabinets are pretty cheap, i was hoping i can use them for new cones. so it would take some work but would it still be easier than to build a box myself?

 

[flot]

No. There is a lot of science behind building speakers, and obviously you aren't looking for that.

Either accept the $20 speakers as they are, or return them and buy something else. The cabinets they came in (I looked at them in person) aren't suitable to build a new speaker out of - and in fact, almost none are - the science is that you have to match the box volume (volume as in cubic feet) to the woofer you use, therefore you would have to magically select a woofer that needed exactly the volume of that KLH speaker box.

On top of that, ideally you want your speaker enclosure to be "dead" and not rattle - and the KLH enclosures wouldn't accomplish this - they were much too flimsy.

Still they were a great deal for $20 a pair.

 

[Howard]

You'd have to rip apart the surround to replace the cone, and I think you lose the voice coil and spider.

 

[noxipoo]

oh well, at least they were cheap.