Need professional advise
I'd think you might want to try something like MillerSound? There might be some outfit closer to you, but there are probably none better (at least not in this part of the galaxy...). And I'd agree w/ what Elizabeth said - huge mistake to swap out the original Mac drivers. |
Yea, it's pretty easy to replace the foam surrounds on drivers, provide you find the bits that fit and are willing to do some glueing. If you start swapping out the drivers themselves with replacements, you're pretty much starting from scratch and just using a Mc box and crossover to build your own speaker in -- which if you're unreasonably lucky might work out other than poorly, but would almost certainly be a bad plan. Have to admit, I've actually done it both ways. Had some unidentified speakers with corroded surrounds that I swapped out with some from rat shack in college (actually pulled and replaced the 12 inch woofers, I mean). The speakers themselves where worthless, so no loss, but I nonetheless thought I was super clever. They worked. For a little while. And then they stopped, and there was nothing to be done about it. Actually ended up pushing them out of the window rather than carry them down the stairs. Better luck, older pair of infinity speakers, also with totally disintegrated surrounds on the woofers, I got a kit to replace the surrounds from some spot in CA and they're now as good as ever. You can find reconing kits as well if your cones are damaged, but sounds like all you need are new surrounds. Makes sense to start with the manufacturer, but you may also be able to find kits with the proper sized surround and apoxy on the intertubes if it comes to that. But have to agree, wouldn't just start swapping out drivers. Having learned the hard way, there are much better options. Best of luck. Oh, further thought -- I have actually replaced drivers on a pair of Thiels, but in that instance I in fact had fried the coaxial tweeter/midrange and the good folks at Thiel were kind enough to send me a replacement driver matched to my speakers. So, you can certainly replace drivers -- but I wouldn't do it with anything other than the drivers by McIntosh for Mcintosh. In all events, sounds like here there's a much simpler (and cheaper) fix.... |
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