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blown capacitor in Harbeth speaker - help

I bought a pair of Harbeth HL-PSES-2 off Ebay. That was first mistake lol.

Anyway, after hearing some distortion coming from a speaker when I had some very low notes playing on my system, I decided to take it to a sound engineer. He said the capacitor in the speaker was toast. He said in his opinion I would be better off trying to get my money back than replacing the capacitor. Is his advice accurate or is possible to replace the capacitor and still get a great sound of out them. I really love the sound of my speakers (except for the one speaker which will continue to likely get worse.) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! - thanks!
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chayro
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You say you hear distortion when playing very low notes - those are small speakers and can only take so much. Reverse the speaker position and see if the other one does the same thing. Also, is it only on one recording or does it happen a lot? Sometimes a bass note on a given recording just causes a speaker cabinet to react.

Assuming you determine it's broken, I would contact Fidelis, the Harbeth importer, and ask where you can have the speaker repaired. Fortunately, you don't have the M40s, which are a bit harder to ship. Good luck.
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