Hey guys!
A few months ago, I visited my local Goodwill and a generic looking pair of speakers caught my eyes -- At second glance...
They were thrown onto the floor haphazardly, along with most of the furniture in the store and a few other generic speakers. These speakers, however, weren't so generic; albeit they do look like they're straight out of a 1980's Sear's showroom...
They had the familiar blue "EV" logo on the back, along with some fairly decent, for 80's standards, binding posts. The price tag read $12.99. I peeled the grilles off and was greeted with foam rot... Times two!
The usual foam surround rot had occurred with the mid bass driver, and also had taken its toll on the tweeter diffraction foam as well; much like that of the older JBL speakers.
I threw them into my cart and walked around the store a little bit more.
I was looking through the electronics shelves when I came across another familiar name, this time "Integra", on a Tape deck. It was an Onkyo Integra TA-2600 deck, with a $10.00 price tag on it. I took a gamble and threw it into my cart too because I hadn't had a decent tape deck at the time. I digress.
When I got them home, I quickly realised that the cabinets were covered in a super sticky, almost glue like slime, which stuck to my hands after handling them. I was able to abate the cabinets of it with some multi-surface cleaner and some of my magic "Scott's Liquid Gold" wood polish and cleaner.
I went online and ordered some new foam surrounds for the woofers and I was also able to find someone who makes the diffraction foam custom for this particular speaker's tweeters. All in all, I paid about $45 between the tweeter diffraction foam and the foam surrounds for the woofers, plus the $13 for the speakers themselves.
(Link for tweeter foam here: http://reconingspeakers.com/product/ev-replacement-electro-voice-tweeter-foam-lens-70534/)
When I got the new foam in, I went to work. I removed the drivers and scraped all of the old foam and glue off of the tweeters and woofers. What surprised me was the size of the magnet for both the woofer and the tweeter... Pretty big if I say so myself.
Installing the foam onto the woofers and tweeters was extremely easy, and everything turned out flawlessly; I even cleaned the potentiometers for the tweeter adjustments.
I didn't bother to change the cap in the crossover network, but I might in the future.
I'm glad that I was able to save a great pair of speakers from being thrown out, granted no one would have wanted to buy a pair of foam-rotted speakers.
They sound great, with a lot of low end and mid range clarity, plus a pretty decent top end.
Are they as good as my similar EPI Model 100's? No. But they're still really good speakers that can hold their own to a lot of sub $200 speakers made today.
Anyone else have experience with EV Interface I Series II speakers, or any other similar EV speakers for that matter? I'd love to hear your opinions on these guys. I like them a lot.
A few months ago, I visited my local Goodwill and a generic looking pair of speakers caught my eyes -- At second glance...
They were thrown onto the floor haphazardly, along with most of the furniture in the store and a few other generic speakers. These speakers, however, weren't so generic; albeit they do look like they're straight out of a 1980's Sear's showroom...
They had the familiar blue "EV" logo on the back, along with some fairly decent, for 80's standards, binding posts. The price tag read $12.99. I peeled the grilles off and was greeted with foam rot... Times two!
The usual foam surround rot had occurred with the mid bass driver, and also had taken its toll on the tweeter diffraction foam as well; much like that of the older JBL speakers.
I threw them into my cart and walked around the store a little bit more.
I was looking through the electronics shelves when I came across another familiar name, this time "Integra", on a Tape deck. It was an Onkyo Integra TA-2600 deck, with a $10.00 price tag on it. I took a gamble and threw it into my cart too because I hadn't had a decent tape deck at the time. I digress.
When I got them home, I quickly realised that the cabinets were covered in a super sticky, almost glue like slime, which stuck to my hands after handling them. I was able to abate the cabinets of it with some multi-surface cleaner and some of my magic "Scott's Liquid Gold" wood polish and cleaner.
I went online and ordered some new foam surrounds for the woofers and I was also able to find someone who makes the diffraction foam custom for this particular speaker's tweeters. All in all, I paid about $45 between the tweeter diffraction foam and the foam surrounds for the woofers, plus the $13 for the speakers themselves.
(Link for tweeter foam here: http://reconingspeakers.com/product/ev-replacement-electro-voice-tweeter-foam-lens-70534/)
When I got the new foam in, I went to work. I removed the drivers and scraped all of the old foam and glue off of the tweeters and woofers. What surprised me was the size of the magnet for both the woofer and the tweeter... Pretty big if I say so myself.
Installing the foam onto the woofers and tweeters was extremely easy, and everything turned out flawlessly; I even cleaned the potentiometers for the tweeter adjustments.
I didn't bother to change the cap in the crossover network, but I might in the future.
I'm glad that I was able to save a great pair of speakers from being thrown out, granted no one would have wanted to buy a pair of foam-rotted speakers.
They sound great, with a lot of low end and mid range clarity, plus a pretty decent top end.
Are they as good as my similar EPI Model 100's? No. But they're still really good speakers that can hold their own to a lot of sub $200 speakers made today.
Anyone else have experience with EV Interface I Series II speakers, or any other similar EV speakers for that matter? I'd love to hear your opinions on these guys. I like them a lot.
