anyone know anything about speaker repair?

[AustinSilvia]

i have never repaired speakers before because i have never had to. i recently acquired some boston acoustics nx57 coaxials. the speakers themselves are physically fine. i tested them out. they sound fine at low volume, but when turned up they distort like crazy which leads me to believe that the coil has been damaged or come loose or whatever. so i guess what i need to ask is: is it difficult to repair/replace the coil? how much would it cost? etc. does anyone know if i can order the parts anywhere? i got the speakers for free so i mean i kind of WANT to repair them for the experience, but if it costs a substantial amount then i'll probably skip it. thanks for the help in advance.

[AustinSilvia]

come on someone has to know something

[AustinSilvia]

simmsled? ayjay? rex? anyone? i've seen prices for places to recone or replace coils or whatever and it is really expensive considering the speakers i am talking about... it costs almost as much as the speakers, but i dont expect that those costs are for materials... probably labor and such. does anyone even know where to get the things to repair speakers? coils, etc? can you repair a damaged coil if it still ohms correctly? am i kicking a dead horse? will i get any replies? a reply to any number of these and the above questions would really be appreciated... someone show some interest here!!!! doesn't anyone else want to know these things? it would be a great thing for another STICKY!!!! goodnight.

[corn322]

in my opinion, I wouldn't bother with trying to replace the coils. it's just be easier and cheaper to get new speaks. unless they have sentimental value.

I think it is possible to replace the coil, but depends on the design of the speaker. if everything is glued together, you could damage somethign taking it apart.

if it still ohms correctly, maybe it's not the coil that is damaged. perhaps the spider has a tear or something.

[Rex]

In my personal experience I never had a "good" (read - pricey) go bad while I was using it. So, it never occured to me to repair/rebuild the speaker, rather than replace it. IIRC, I never had a speaker go bad, but if I had, I woiuld have most likely replaced it, so the new one would have a warrantee. I understand you got these for nothing and if you can have them replaced cheaply, you'll have a good speaker for just the cost of repairs. My suggestion would be to check with a Mom & Pop type stereo (Home Audio??) shop. They may do repairs or have someone that does for them. They may also be able to test/diagnose the problem as well. Most bigger/chain places are going to want to simply sell you a new speaker.

Good Luck.

[AustinSilvia]

i haven't had em go bad either... i got these speakers for free from someone else who doesn't know how to tune properly, and he blew em. it's not that i can't get other speakers... i dont need other speakers, i already have some, but i want to repair these for the experience, and just to see what it's like... so yeah thanks for the replies... anyone else got any advice?

[AustinSilvia]

someone else help me out, or at least tell me this post is worthless and i won't be able to do it. someone reply!!!

[corn322]

I would get new speakers.

you could do it, but chances of it comming out great are, eh, not so great.

btw, where in austin are you?

[fuzion]

Heh.. my friend ordered some MB Quart component speakers... like $800, and I broke one of the tweeters o_O

But i'm 1337, so I took it apart and repaired the little metal coil going around the cone and it works now

[corn322]

yeah, my friend has MB Quart components in his 'lude. they rock.

[AustinSilvia]

i'm in south austin... just moved... 2 weeks ago i was north, like pflugerville. i'm glad we moved being north was soo disconnected from everything... with very few exceptions

[corn322]

ah, I live up near jollyville.

[MECPInstaller]

Call the manufacturer and see if you'd be able to buy a cone/voice coil assembly, it might be possible then all you need to do is some minor snipping and resoldering of the speaker leads leading to the little terminal block and reglueing the surround to the basket, somethign alil epoxy or superglue can help with. It maybe kinda pricey to rebuild normal speakers. The only time i've really seen reconing is after blowing an expensive sub.(the situation i'm in, $450 concept 15, 3year warranty blew it 3 times now out of warranty and need to replace the cone/coil assembly) Oh and i blew it cause i was a stupid teen at the time:) sub says it takes 1200 so i put 1800 to it lasted about a month each time lol

[MECPInstaller]

btw you'd have to somehow get the tweeter assembly off and out of the way to get the cone/coil to follow. Not really sure how they secure it in there so good luck, would definatly like to see a write up if you do this.

[AustinSilvia]

yeah see the whole thing about it is having to buy all the parts, and i don't care about actually using these speakers for myself, but I could I guess... but at this point it seems much cheaper to just buy others ones if i was gonna spend any amount of money on them... these particular speakers I can pick up another set on ebay for like $50... I'll probably just take em apart just to see what all the problems are, but spending money on it isn't something I really want to do since it's so damn expensive to repair...