Blown Mid Driver

I'll have to look into that. Might see how that turns out and if it's a fail then.... I had to get replacement tweeters for a friend from Paradigm 2 years ago for same age speakers. They had them in stock but only sold in a pair. Only 75 bucks. Even if they have these drivers still available, or ones that would work, I'm sure they'd be considerably more bucks, esp if sold in a pair.

Solid point there. Thanks for the reply.

Bringing this thread back to life with an update... having a 2 yr old put a hiatus on the fix. Removed the driver. Turns out the (forgive my lack of technical speak here) metal housing ’frame’ had completely broken away from the speaker portion. Thus the cantilevered weight of the magnet in the cabinet caused the foam surround to concave on itself. My guess is it was knocked over at some point, maybe in shipping, and then frame cracked. Then eventually broke proper.

For giggles, and knowing it wouldn’t sound perfect, I tried to jb weld it but the surface area of the metal was so thin and touching the foam that it was a failure before launch.

Called Paradigm and they still had 10 new old stock mid drivers. Picked one up for $275 including shipping. Now ideally I’d get a pair but by that point I’d be over my threshold/ on the way to a new pair of speaks.

Ran tunes through them 24/7 for 3.5 weeks straight to break it in. Sounds just like I remember. If there’s any difference between the pair I can’t pick it up.

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