refoam speakers?

sting

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Anyone try refoaming your speaker surrounds? Just wondering how difficult it is to do? I have a pair of old Kef's that need repair. Or should I just let a professional do it?

thanks for the advice.
 
Santon Audio in Markham refoamed my Paradigms and they came out great. Speaker repair is all they do. I'd recommend getting them to do it if the speakers are worth much.
 
thanks mmouse. I'll check them out.


A combination of insulation foam sheets, expanding can foam, fibreglass (carbon fibre even better)... With a cast concrete or dense hardwood shell works really really well...

Not hard to do either... easy to redo or rebuild entirely a new speakerbox... A good spearker will sound even better...
 
Very cool.

I have a set of Kricket Domaxial speakers which were fucking great speakers in their day that I have in a box. I pulled them out recently and some of the foam fell away. :eek:

I didn't throw them out as they remind me too much of my youth.

Bonus points if any of you are familiar with Krickets.

I remember buying a set in 1980 or so and they got wrecked when my dad had some body work done on the car. The idiots who did the work didn't put anything over the speakers and did some grinding and all the filings got into the magnet. That was the end of those, but Kricket gave me another pair gratis and I kept them until the early 90's brand new before I installed them. Then when I scrapped that car, I took them out and stored them until very recently.

I'd love to get them up and working again.