Electro-voice sentry III help

[tubo]

Hello everyone,

I have recently acquired a pair of electrovoice sentry III and i love how it sounds. The cabinets are in rough shape but can be refinished. These are the smoothest horn speakers I’ve heard.

Anyways, I was told by the seller that the woofers have been refoamed using cerwin vegas. They work and sound good but i just had to check if the drivers are original as was advertised.

So i removed the woofers and found that the cone has been patched up. I’m not really familiar with speaker repair/ reconing do i wanted to ask here if the job is acceptable or garbage and if i have to have these drivers reconed. As they are at the moment they sound good without distortion even if pushed hard.

Need advice on what needs the be done.

Thanks

Attached are some pics.

Best wishes to everyone

 

[carlthess40]

That is so disrespectful to ev. Recon them ASAP. That does not look and it’s no good to the driver to add the uneven mass to the cone. You should lookup the numbers from the back of the driver to make sure that they are even a EV driver. Every ev driver I’ve seen is stamped EV

 

[tubo]

Thanks Carl,

Do you know of anyone that does reconing / repair for electrovoice drivers?

 

[tubo]

They are the right drivers

 

[phase_accurate]

The basket does at least look EV !

Regards

Charles

 

[carlthess40]

Parts express
Speaker works
I can find out more tomorrow

 

[freddi]

it looks like most of a "new" CV cone and surround were grafted to a "stub" - "neck" of the old EV cone - am I looking at them wrong? If the cones aren't significantly tilted and there's no voice coil rub, then they may be functional. Parameter testing would be in order to see how they might differ from original condition.

 

[Rational35]

I don't know what to think of that repair at the base of the cone, but someone might have thought (and not too far wrong) that a C-V re-foam was the best option. Hideous color notwithstanding .

The frame/motor is definitely EV. The Sentry III woofers were similar to the EVM15L/EVM15B of the era, but with a foam surround.

Here's another thread that may be of interest: EV Sentry III

-Peter

 

[tubo]

Thank you guys.. looking for recone kits

 

[tiefbassuebertr]

Thanks Carl,

Do you know of anyone that does reconing / repair for electrovoice drivers?

check out this video from German television (SWR-BW, start from 30:32) under
Paul's-Reference Hifi-Forum - Information
this guy works for this company:
Lautsprecher Manufaktur GmbH