Blown Speaker in Barefaced Two10

[Chienmortbb]

40 minutes ago, chris_b said:

 

These are custom drivers, made to Alex's specifications, so my guess is that recone kits won't be available. Always worth an email to confirm.

 I am going to guess that these are "custom"  versions of the Deltalite 2510 and as they are not available either, it's most unlikely that you will get a re-cone kit for it. 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, bremen said:

You do know that you can buy recone kits, and it's not nearly as difficult a job as you might think. I have 46 year old Tannoys and have reconed more than one of them.

 

My grandfather taught my dad how to recone Goodmans speakers in the 1960s, using pieces of photographic negative as spacers around the voice coil.

[bremen]

You need to use jpegs nowadays

[agedhorse]

10 hours ago, bremen said:

You do know that you can buy recone kits, and it's not nearly as difficult a job as you might think. I have 46 year old Tannoys and have reconed more than one of them.

With Eminence, most OEM recone kits are raw kits (unassembled) but only available to the OEM manufacturer and it was a 10 piece minimum (though that may have changed in then last few years). It's more difficult if you need to recone them from raw kits and do them properly to meet the original specifications to last like the original factory drivers. Details matter, and what I see of recone work by end users is usually awfully scary.

 

9 hours ago, chris_b said:

 

These are custom drivers, made to Alex's specifications, so my guess is that recone kits won't be available. Always worth an email to confirm.

Correct, I wouldn't expect these parts to be available unless Alex has them. 

 

Just because recone parts fit doesn't mean they are correct. The driver may make noise, but will be nothing like the originals. There are some abysmal aftermarket parts kits sold as original out there... buyer beware.

[Burns-bass]

On 24/12/2024 at 09:03, ossyrocks said:

Just to add. Yes, the BF drivers are custom built for BF, but BF will not sell a driver separately. I know because I asked Alex to sell me a 12 and he politely declined.

I'm sure they would replace the driver for you though. I'm also sure Alex would love to investigate the cause of the problem himself.

 

Rob

 

This isn’t the experience I had. I messaged Alex for a replacement 10” speaker and he sent me a link within about 3 hours.

 

Perhaps there’s a difference between the 10 and 12 drivers but I wouldn’t expect so.