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Vintage Yamaha FX-3 speakers help?

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Johan*

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I recently acquired a rather rare pair of Yamaha FX-3 speakers, luckily all the beryllium drivers still work but the surrounds on the woofers don't appear to be original to me. Does anyone here know if the speaker surrounds on these woofers were made from the same material (rubberised cloth?) as were used in most of their other woofers from that period? Secondly, where would be the best place to order new surrounds from? I doubt Yamaha would still have replacements after all these years? I am based in South Africa so ideally a place that can ship overseas.

Here's what they look like:
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Johan* said:
I recently acquired a rather rare pair of Yamaha FX-3 speakers, luckily all the beryllium drivers still work but the surrounds on the woofers don't appear to be original to me. Does anyone here know if the speaker surrounds on these woofers were made from the same material (rubberised cloth?) as were used in most of their other woofers from that period? Secondly, where would be the best place to order new surrounds from? I doubt Yamaha would still have replacements after all these years? I am based in South Africa so ideally a place that can ship overseas.

Here's what they look like:
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Try posting in the Yamaha forum, you may get more responses; That is a great and rare find!
 
Johan* said:
Does anyone here know if the speaker surrounds on these woofers were made from the same material (rubberised cloth?)
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Yes they were... Same as the NS-1000 and 1000M..
 
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Johan* said:
Secondly, where would be the best place to order new surrounds from?
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Is there anything wrong with the originals? They should last forever.Well maybe not forever.. My NS-1000's and 1000M's are still original and are still in perfect condition.They were purchased new in 1979 and 1980.
 
avionic said:
Is there anything wrong with the originals? They should last forever.Well maybe not forever.. My NS-1000's and 1000M's are still original and are still in perfect condition.They were purchased new in 1979 and 1980.
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I agree, all of my Yamaha's have the original treated cloth surrounds and they are in perfect condition...
 
The surrounds that are on this pair are plain rubber and look nothing like the surrounds on my other Yamaha speakers which makes me think that the original woofer surrounds were previously replaced with rubber ones which are now starting to detach from the woofer cones, why the previous owner had the original surrounds replaced I have no idea.
 
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