Acoustic Zen - blown tweeter - out of business? replacement?


I have picked up a nice early pair of AZ Adagio and they have a tweeter that is not working. I have emailed AZ and no response. I have called them multiple times, they seem to have a cell phone as their business phone and the voice mail is the default message and the voicemail is full. I have tried to contact several dealers listed on the website and they either don't list the product any longer, the store no longer exists/no website, or they haven't dealt with AZ in a long time. So, any news out there? anyone know the fate of AZ? Surely they don't make that ribbon tweeter, right? Any clue who does? does not look familiar to me. Anyone used another tweeter successfully? Thanks for your help and suggestions.Zen Adagio Tweeter

dcsalling

I don't know anything about your speakers.

You might get lucky,

the problem might be inside, a crossover component or connection,

I just restored AR-2ax’s, and one of the new capacitors I installed was bad, juice up to it, nothing on the other side. Parts express overnighted replacement, tweeter was fine.

Also, a wire nut someone had installed within had jostled loose during shipping, easy to check, find, fix. I changed the wire nuts to bullet connectors.

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IF it is the tweeter, you might also replace both tweeters with ’better’ ones. i.e. get help from Madisound, .... My JSE Infinite Slope Model 2’s: I replaced my Dynaudio D21’s (they burnt out too easily, common problem with that model) with some Focals, blended/sounded terrific, and ferro-fluid never burnt out.

IF it gets tricky, I presume you have the original specs of the speakers/whatever details you can gather, and you have the good tweeter, you can remove and measure it's resistance, get all the clues you can.

You can remove the woofer(s) photograph the crossover parts, test the crossover parts

 

Wish it was a loose connection, or a bad crossover... Acoustic Zen soldered all connections and used very nice wire.  I have several tweeters on hand and connected up a polk tweeter and laid it in the hole, it works fine so I know the tweeter is the only problem.  Still haven't gotten through to the company, their voicemail continues to be full.  Thanks for your thoughts.

If you get desperate, you could try tracking down this unit. This site looks kinda sketchy, so I'm not sure I would purchase from them, but the product name leads me to believe this could be the same unit with a different mounting plate ( square vs. Rounded corners).

https://www.v2mshop.com/?product_id=256413225_52