Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to be here, a little story 1st then, and then onto my question, which surely will be one of a few over the next few weeks
My listening story is way over 40 years on and off, but my restoration story is really under a year.
So, back in the day, I had a pair of Heybrook HB1's, my mate had Mission 700's, and boy did I love the sound of my HB's...Life came along, work, kids and all that, until 3 years back when I thought I would "relight the fire", and bought a pair of HB1's , cheap amp, turntable etc.... On and off listening, bits of cheaper kit, until I found Tidal and it all came back to me... and thats when the HB1's driver cone surround disintegrated on boxing day 23 ( funnily enough with the Jacksons blame it on the boogie, I sure did blame it on that)..
Oops, new speakers then, what turned out to be nasty ones from Cambridge Audio, went straight back, so...fix the HB's??? And yes I did, well, one of them, the other hasn't as yet given up...nice, very enjoyable, sort of relaxing, I like this hobby.
I was in a Vinyl shop in Inverness, chatting away as you do, guy said to me, you know there is a man close to you who fixes older kit (and sells it also), I made contact with him, saying I was looking for some Ditton 66's, good luck says he, why not try some KEF 104 AB's???
So, I found some, sublime (even on a cheap amp) so, much better amp (Evo 150), Qobuz.... fashioned some stands, lots of reading, suggestion was always update the caps etc...gulp, bought them, delivered, heart in my hands I did the first one, took me an hour, very careful.... reinstalled ..... incredible, did the other (20 minutes).... I love them, and this hobby.
Last weekend, I took a trip to Edinburgh to pick up a pair of Wharfedale W3's, once home I played them very carefully with the old Amp, they sounded OK, they looked dreadful...perfect project.
Ive stripped them down, and both the tweeters and woofers are excellent , but both of the mid range (Super 5's?) have some degradation around the cone surrounds, roughly about 1cm holes in both, so how do I go about fixing these, I cant find anything as easily as I did on the HB's, I don't want to just swap them out....thats my question then, how do I repair these??
I can see Galu makes some reference here to this issue ( https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/dont-know-what-to-do.385233/#post-6996826 ), but cant find much else, nor can I see a way to direct contact Galu either (New boy error likely here)... I would appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.
My listening story is way over 40 years on and off, but my restoration story is really under a year.
So, back in the day, I had a pair of Heybrook HB1's, my mate had Mission 700's, and boy did I love the sound of my HB's...Life came along, work, kids and all that, until 3 years back when I thought I would "relight the fire", and bought a pair of HB1's , cheap amp, turntable etc.... On and off listening, bits of cheaper kit, until I found Tidal and it all came back to me... and thats when the HB1's driver cone surround disintegrated on boxing day 23 ( funnily enough with the Jacksons blame it on the boogie, I sure did blame it on that)..
Oops, new speakers then, what turned out to be nasty ones from Cambridge Audio, went straight back, so...fix the HB's??? And yes I did, well, one of them, the other hasn't as yet given up...nice, very enjoyable, sort of relaxing, I like this hobby.
I was in a Vinyl shop in Inverness, chatting away as you do, guy said to me, you know there is a man close to you who fixes older kit (and sells it also), I made contact with him, saying I was looking for some Ditton 66's, good luck says he, why not try some KEF 104 AB's???
So, I found some, sublime (even on a cheap amp) so, much better amp (Evo 150), Qobuz.... fashioned some stands, lots of reading, suggestion was always update the caps etc...gulp, bought them, delivered, heart in my hands I did the first one, took me an hour, very careful.... reinstalled ..... incredible, did the other (20 minutes).... I love them, and this hobby.
Last weekend, I took a trip to Edinburgh to pick up a pair of Wharfedale W3's, once home I played them very carefully with the old Amp, they sounded OK, they looked dreadful...perfect project.
Ive stripped them down, and both the tweeters and woofers are excellent , but both of the mid range (Super 5's?) have some degradation around the cone surrounds, roughly about 1cm holes in both, so how do I go about fixing these, I cant find anything as easily as I did on the HB's, I don't want to just swap them out....thats my question then, how do I repair these??
I can see Galu makes some reference here to this issue ( https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/dont-know-what-to-do.385233/#post-6996826 ), but cant find much else, nor can I see a way to direct contact Galu either (New boy error likely here)... I would appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.
Hello TullochwoodLodges and welcome!
You just put a "@" in front of his name and he will be notified: @Galu can you help (see above)?
Welcome to the forum.
Lovely story, keep writing so we can keep reading and maybe participate in your fun.
Cheers.
Stan
Lovely story, keep writing so we can keep reading and maybe participate in your fun.
Cheers.
Stan
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https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/wharfedale-w3s-galu-or-others-please-help-me.417078/
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