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Vandersteen 1 repair.

I just lost a woofer in an older but otherwise solid Vandersteen 1 and am at a bit of a loss as to what to do. 

Part of me feels like being daring and looking for a pair of drivers to use that may equal or possibly improve performance. 

In thinking about this possibility I am not sure if it will be easy to source a pair of drivers that will match the needs of the task as well as what Vandersteen put in there in the first place. 

As such I sent a note to them and got a quote back to repair the damaged driver for $180 reusing I assume most of the driver I have. There are a LOT of really good quality drivers out there in a price range that would let me replace both woofers and not be worried how soon the second one may go out after spending that much for a repair of 1 driver. 

I would be interested to hear thoughts of others who have been in a similar situation as well as thought from people who have went outside of stock and modified your own gear. 

Thanks! 
dsycks

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timlub
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mixed feelings about this.  I'm in Arkansas and I can certainly measure the current driver if you'd like to send it... 
Its a tough call. You can't simply replace a 4 ohm or 8 ohm driver with the same and get away with it.  You have to run impedance curves and get a driver that has a very close impedance to the original driver at the crossover frequency unless you plan on changing the crossover...  You need a driver that has a very close qts & vas as the stock driver and you need a driver that has similar frequency curves if you expect it to be very close to the same sound.  
I'm happy to help,  I can usually get the job done,  but this isn't a no brainer.  Good Luck,  Tim 
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