Old Speaker Repair?

[TWills]

I have some wonderful large wooden box speakers which are showing their age. I know I can get parts for them, but am having trouble locating a repair manual to educate myself before destroying the speakers. Do you know of a manual or web site I could use to learn from?

 

[TStep]

Years ago I was into building loudspeakers (single, lots of time and money) but I'm not up to date. I bought alot of good components from Madisound. That was about 15-20 years ago though. They used to have a comprehensive book on box sizing fundementals, crossover design, etc. I imagine it's all on web pages now though.

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[Oyeve]

Geez, I used a speaker repair kit to replace the rotting foam on an original pair of Advent speakers made in the early/mid '70s. Forgot where I bought it from but was hard as hell, no room for error. Google speaker repair kits.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Just replace the woofers, most of the time thats what goes bad on old paper cone speakers and the crossovers are just fine, Just make sure you get new drivers w/ the same dimenshions as the old ones and the same ohm rating.

 

[TWills]

Sounds like a mess (no pun intended). I have some wonderful 12"woofers that I would like to keep in pristine condition. I've hooked them into my home made surround sound for my computer using two old amps as a bridge of sorts. I plug the speakers into the amps, and the amps into the compy. Sounds great!