Speakerbits

After twenty five years in the trenches, we've seen just about every speaker fault imaginable.

Have your foam surround suspension rings rotted or perished?

Many quality speakers made between about 1970 and 1990 used soft foam for the outer suspension ring of the bass and midrange speaker. This is widely regarded by speaker professionals as the best material for sound quality – but unfortunately the limited life span means that it will eventually need to be replaced. Most refoam jobs cost between $65.00 and $110.00 each depending on the type and grade of foam required.

Which foam surround is right for your speakers? We have for example fifteen or twenty different ten inch foam surrounds in stock. Each one fits a different speaker; we can determine quickly which one is right for you. The installation of the wrong surround by less thorough repairers will inevitably result in a profound loss of bass response.

The correct grade of foam is absolutely essential to retain the speaker's original characteristics. Our extensive experience lets us select exactly the correct part for you.

Have your tweeters stopped working?

A common failure, usually caused by driving a low powered amplifier beyond its safe operating limit. Where genuine parts are not available from the manufacturer we can do one of two different repairs.

The first involves fitting new diaphragm dome units to your existing tweeters. This can be done in many cases and is a good idea if your tweeters are an unusual shape or design, precluding fitting of complete new tweeters.

The second option involves replacement of the entire tweeter with top quality Danish Peerless or Scan-Speak tweeters. These can often be very successfully grafted onto your existing tweeter face plates, making the transplant almost invisible.

Fitting new modern tweeters can in any case do wonders for the overall sound of a modest pair of speakers. To preserve your new tweeters, it usually a matter of just taking it easy on the volume control.

You only need to reduce the level a little to avoid tweeter destruction. Tweeter or tweeter diaphragm replacements usually cost between $55.00 and $125.00 each depending on the cost of the tweeter and how much labour is involved in retro-fitting it.

Have your bass/midranges (woofers) stopped working or do they rattle or buzz?

This may be due to faulty braid (lead in) wires or the fault may be more intricate. The voice coil may be bunt or damaged or the cone may be creased or damaged.

Any of these faults can be easily rectified. We can replace just the voice coil, spider (inner hidden suspension damper) and braids. We can replace the cone assebly too if that is required. There is almost no speaker driver that cannot be repaired in this way.

Costs typically range between $95.00 for voice coil and spider replacement on smaller speakers, up to $165.00 for a complete recone. Cones can be replaced in either paper, plastic or Kevlar. It should be noted that it is far better to retain the original cone material if possible, even it has to be heavily patched.

This is the best way to retain the speaker's original sound reproduction.

Got some high quality or vintage speakers you'd like to offload? We're always buying quality vintage and high end equipment for cash.

Here are just a few of the brands we service:

Acapella Audio Arts, Acoustic Energy, acoustic technologies, ADAM Audio, ADRaudio, Advance acoustic, Advent, Altec Lansing, Amphion Loudspeakers, Aperion Audio, Apertura, APG, Arnscott Electronics, Artcoustic Loudspeakers, Arvus Loudspeakers, Ascend Acoustics, Ascebdo GmbH, Ascension, ASW- Loudspeaker, ATC, Atlantis Acoustique, Atlas Sound, LP, Atohm, AUDAX, AUDES, AUDIAZ, Audio Artistry, Audio Physic, AudioPro, AudioTop, AudioVector, AudioVox, Audison, Audivation, AuraSound, Aurelia Loudspeakers, Aurum Cantus, AV , Avalon Acoustics, AVI Sound International, AVI/ Speaker Techniques, Axiom Audio, B&C Speakers, Bang & Olufsen. Barefoot Sound, BC Acoustique, Beauhorn, Behringer, Better Music Builder, Blacka Acoustics, Blaupunkt, BMB, BMS, Bolzano Villetri, Bose, Boston Acoustics, Bowers & Wilkins, Bravox, Bruno Henry Acoustique, Burmester, Cabasse, Canton Elektronik, Celestion, Cerwin-Vega, Chario, Chorus, Coda Audio, Community Professional Loudspeakers, Creative, Crown, Cyramyx, d&b Audiotechnik, D.A.S. Audio, Dai-ichi , DALI, Danley Sound Labs, Davis Acoustics, Dayton Loudspeaker, dB Technologies, Definitive Audio, Denon, Designe , Diapason, Divatech, DLS, Duevel, Duntech, Dynacord, Dynaudio, Dynavoice, EAW, Edifier, Egglestonworks, Elac, Electro-Voice, Electrocompaniet, Elipson, Eltax, EM Acoustics, Emerald Physics, Eminence, Emotiva Audio, Empire disambiguation needed , Energy Speaker Systems, er acoustics, ESTELON, Event, Everest, Fane Acoustics , Farassoo Acron , FBT, FeONIC , Focal-JMLab, Foremost Audio, ForsmanForsman, Forvoice, Fostex, Funktion-One, Gallo Acoustics, Gamut, Genelec, Genesis, German Physiks , Gershman Acoustics, Giussani Research , Gradient, Göbel Audio, Harbeth, Harman Kardon, Harrin Kaiutin, Hartke Systems, Hear More Technology , Hemp Acoustics, Hertz, Highland, Hiquphon, HSU Research, Huff, HUMAN Speakers, Hybrid Audio Technologies , image, Indiana Line, Infinity, isophon, Jamo, Jarmo Audio, JBL, Jean-Marie Reynaud, Jensen, JL Audio, JLA, JVC, Kea Audio, KEF, Kelinac, Kenwood, Kharma International, Kirsch Audio, KLH, Klipsch, Koda, Krell, Krix, KRK, KS Digital, Kustom, L-Acoustics, Lansche Audio, Lautsprecher Produktions GmbH, Legacy Audio, Legend Acoustics, Leon Speakers, Linn, Lipinski Sound, Lithos Acoustics, Living Voice, Logitech, Lowther, Mackie, Magnat, Magnepan, Manger Audio, Marten, Martin Audio, Martin Logan, Master Audio, MBL, McCauley Sound, McIntosh Laboratory, Meyer Sound, Microlab Electronics, Midgard Audio, Minneapolis Speaker Co, Mirage (Klipsch subsidiary), Mission, Mitek/MTX. Monitor Audio, MonitorUnlimited Loudspeakers, Mordaunt-Short, Morel, Mosquito, Mulidine, Naim, NCA Laboratories, Newform Research, NEXO, NHT Loudspeakers, Norge Audio , nOrh, Nubert, OE-One, OHM, Ohm Acoustics, ONIX audio, Onkyo, Opus, OR-Loudspeakers, ORCA, Orpheus, Oxford, Panasonic, Paradigm, PAS, Peak Bay, Peavey Electronics, Peerless (Tymphany), Penaudio, Phase Technology, Philips, Piega SA, Pierre-Etienne Léon, Pinnacle Speakers, Pioneer, PK Sound, PMC speakers, Podium Sound, Polk Audio, Pro-Linear Electronics, Proac, Proel, Proson, PSB, Pyramid Audio, Q Acoustics, QLN, QSC, Quad Electroacoustics, Quadral, Radio Shack, RCF, Rega, REL Acoustics, Renkus-Heinz, Revel, Richter, Rogers Intl, rogue wave audio, S&P-Audio, SEAS, Selenium, Servodrive, SES Audio Design , Shermann Audio, SICA, Snell, Song Audio, Sonic Gear, Sonicweld, Sonique Audio, Sonodyne, Sonus Faber, Sony, Sound Precision, Sound Projects, Speakerlab, Spendor, StudioLAB, surrounTec, System Audio (SA), System Fidelity , Tang Band, Tangent Audio, Tannoy, TC loudspeakers, Technomad, Teledyne, Teresonic, Theophany, THIEL, Tidal, TOA Corp, Tonsil, Totem Acoustic, Tound, Triad, Triangle, Electroacoustique, TruAudio, Turbosound, Tymphany (Peerless), Usher, VAF Research, Vandersteen, VEF Radiotehnika RRR, Verity Audio, Vienna Acoustics, Vivid Audio, VMPS, Void Audio, Von Schweikert Audio, Weckstrom Speakers, Wharfedale, Whatmough, Wilson Audio, Wilson Benesch, XAVIAN , XTZ, Yamaha, Yorkville Sound, ZR Speaker Lab, Zu Audio and Phi Hi-Fi Innovation.