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Speakers with questionable "upgrades"... post your findings here.

This one is more subtle and was fortunately reversible. IMG_8467.jpeg
Disgusting sticky black surface
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Isopropanol leaves streaks
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Turns out to be shoe polish or something like it. Window cleaner did not get it off but isopropanol and half a roll of paper towels did the job.
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But why??! Absolutely beautiful original black anodized brushed aluminum finish
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The overall condition was fine. A few scratches but much better than the grotty shoe shine.
Beovox CX100, early production before they switched to painted cabinets.
 
Not to rain on anyone's parade- but posting up the myriad numbers of speakers out there with just generic replacement woofers, kind of starts to feel like the proverbial "If everything is special, NOTHING is special"...

I do agree, most of these replacements are ill-advised- in that a simple refoam would have been a better choice in the vast majority of cases. But, after a while, "just another replacement woofer" does start to look like they're "the same thing, once again".

Let's try to find some more REALLY BIZARRE modifications! :crazy: :beerchug:

Regards,
Gordon.
 
I agree with GordonW that the wrong woofer or even the very wrong woofer stuffed into a speaker isn't very surprising. I suppose some of these choices were intended as upgrades, but I suspect they are mostly the result of not knowing about speaker design and not having access to better choices, whether due to the lack of any sort of stereo stores other than car stereo places, not having the money, or simply not actually caring that much. For most of the population, some sort of sound seems to be desireable, but its quality is much less important.
 
Nat said:
I agree with GordonW that the wrong woofer or even the very wrong woofer stuffed into a speaker isn't very surprising. I suppose some of these choices were intended as upgrades, but I suspect they are mostly the result of not knowing about speaker design and not having access to better choices, whether due to the lack of any sort of stereo stores other than car stereo places, not having the money, or simply not actually caring that much. For most of the population, some sort of sound seems to be desireable, but its quality is much less important.
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Or age. I wouldn't have known any better when I was a teenager.
 
GordonW said:
Not to rain on anyone's parade- but posting up the myriad numbers of speakers out there with just generic replacement woofers, kind of starts to feel like the proverbial "If everything is special, NOTHING is special"...

I do agree, most of these replacements are ill-advised- in that a simple refoam would have been a better choice in the vast majority of cases. But, after a while, "just another replacement woofer" does start to look like they're "the same thing, once again".

Let's try to find some more REALLY BIZARRE modifications! :crazy: :beerchug:

Regards,
Gordon.
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Nat said:
I agree with GordonW that the wrong woofer or even the very wrong woofer stuffed into a speaker isn't very surprising. I suppose some of these choices were intended as upgrades, but I suspect they are mostly the result of not knowing about speaker design and not having access to better choices, whether due to the lack of any sort of stereo stores other than car stereo places, not having the money, or simply not actually caring that much. For most of the population, some sort of sound seems to be desireable, but its quality is much less important.
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Well, you can always unsubscribe to the thread if you don't like what you see. The fact that we are now up to 215 pages says that some people find it entertaining.

What bothers me more is people that post their own mini threads about how they saved a speaker that was butchered. Start you own thread, you're more likely to get feedback on it, and it won't get lost amongst the weeds.
 
leesonic said:
Well, you can always unsubscribe to the thread if you don't like what you see. The fact that we are now up to 215 pages says that some people find it entertaining.

What bothers me more is people that post their own mini threads about how they saved a speaker that was butchered. Start you own thread, you're more likely to get feedback on it, and it won't get lost amongst the weeds.
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Well, to the former point- it is getting to where the thread is less interesting due to the non-novel stuff, and it's not just me that is noticing. Not saying people can't post what they want (they can, obviously), but there is something to be said about trying to find more new and unusual content...

For the latter, I am in complete agreement. If you're bringing a speaker back from the dead/damned, please DO just post a separate thread for it. Not only will it likely get more traffic, but it will help anyone else that finds themselves in a similar situation, find the info later, better than if it's mixed in with hundreds, maybe thousands, of other posts in this thread.

Regards,
Gordon.
 
I was actually kind of responding to the meth pipe comment - you don't need to be out of your mind to badly "repair" a speaker. You can do it with the best intentions.
I think audiophiles sometimes assume that more people care about, or can recognize, good sound than actually do. And then there are the issues I mentioned - inacccessibilty of sources of proper drivers, ignorance of the science/art of speaker design, and so on. So suggesting mental impairment isn't needed.
 
Yodathedog said:
Or age. I wouldn't have known any better when I was a teenager.
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Or audio dealership. I blew a woofer in my original L400s, and discovered many years later after pulling them out of storage that the dealer used a really cheap-ass replacement. Unfortunately, by the time I discovered the problem, the dealer was long out of business.
 
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