speaker renovation

[eric phillips]

I have an ancient pair of Electrovoce series B series. The boxes are
in excellent order but a tweeter has blown in one and the foam
surrounds have turned to dust..
I was toying with the idea of transforming them into a decent sounding
project without the electronic equaliser and a different pair of
tweeters.
I know absolutely nothing about building speakers so would appreciate
all or any help or pointers. Perhaps Trevor Lees has some first -
hand experience of this model.
TIA
eric phillips

[Alan Rutlidge]

"Wayne Reid" <REMOVEgokangas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7dx%d.3245$Le2.22540@nasal.pacific.net.au...
>
> "eric phillips" <ericp@kooee.com.au> wrote in message
> news:55ur31dkjnlsp3hnq0vnr4eoqgov15clfc@4ax.com...
> > I have an ancient pair of Electrovoce series B series. The boxes are
> > in excellent order but a tweeter has blown in one and the foam
> > surrounds have turned to dust..
> > I was toying with the idea of transforming them into a decent sounding
> > project without the electronic equaliser and a different pair of
> > tweeters.
> > I know absolutely nothing about building speakers so would appreciate
> > all or any help or pointers. Perhaps Trevor Lees has some first -
> > hand experience of this model.
>
> You can get rubber surrounds from Jaycar. Search their web site. This will
> at least get your larger cones sorted out.
>
> WR
>
>

Do a Google search using 'speaker repair kits'. You get lots of hits.
Mostly US but they stock repair kits for EV drivers. Post from US usually
only takes 4 days.

Cheers,
Alan

[eric phillips]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:23:38 +0800, "Alan Rutlidge"
<rutlidge@<NO_SPAM>iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
>"Wayne Reid" <REMOVEgokangas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:7dx%d.3245$Le2.22540@nasal.pacific.net.au...
>>
>> "eric phillips" <ericp@kooee.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:55ur31dkjnlsp3hnq0vnr4eoqgov15clfc@4ax.com...
>> > I have an ancient pair of Electrovoce series B series. The boxes are
>> > in excellent order but a tweeter has blown in one and the foam
>> > surrounds have turned to dust..
>> > I was toying with the idea of transforming them into a decent sounding
>> > project without the electronic equaliser and a different pair of
>> > tweeters.
>> > I know absolutely nothing about building speakers so would appreciate
>> > all or any help or pointers. Perhaps Trevor Lees has some first -
>> > hand experience of this model.
>>
>> You can get rubber surrounds from Jaycar. Search their web site. This will
>> at least get your larger cones sorted out.
>>
>> WR
>>
>>
>
>Do a Google search using 'speaker repair kits'. You get lots of hits.
>Mostly US but they stock repair kits for EV drivers. Post from US usually
>only takes 4 days.
>
>Cheers,
>Alan
>
Thank you both for your help . I will act on your information.
eric phillips

[Trevor Lees]

after you get the correct surrounds I have a friend who does a great job of
resurrounding them,and we could supply a new set of better sounding tweeters
with crossover mods as appropriate,maybe new crossover caps and bi-wire them
also,
cheers Trevor Lees
"eric phillips" <ericp@kooee.com.au> wrote in message
news:55ur31dkjnlsp3hnq0vnr4eoqgov15clfc@4ax.com...
>I have an ancient pair of Electrovoce series B series. The boxes are
> in excellent order but a tweeter has blown in one and the foam
> surrounds have turned to dust..
> I was toying with the idea of transforming them into a decent sounding
> project without the electronic equaliser and a different pair of
> tweeters.
> I know absolutely nothing about building speakers so would appreciate
> all or any help or pointers. Perhaps Trevor Lees has some first -
> hand experience of this model.
> TIA
> eric phillips
>

[eric phillips]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:20:10 GMT, "Trevor Lees"
<tlee3842@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>after you get the correct surrounds I have a friend who does a great job of
>resurrounding them,and we could supply a new set of better sounding tweeters
>with crossover mods as appropriate,maybe new crossover caps and bi-wire them
>also,
>cheers Trevor Lees
The trouble is is that I live too far from Melbourne. The boxes are
pretty heavy and would be expensive to ship. I just thought that you
would know of a good project utilising the boxes. To modernise,so to
speak, without using the equaliser.
eric phillips