Platinum and Silver model woofers

Hi Everyone As you know from a new "FACE" I am new here and wanted to say HELLO.

I had my pair of CARVER Platinum's since new around 89 or so and never checked the woofers until
a few days ago when I heard noise from one of the woofers who's Foam Surround has rotten. The
rest look OK but they must be ready to turn to dust as well. I called orevox on new Woofers but
found them at $45 each now, So with shipping I am looking at $400 to replace woofers I do
not have that kind of money now so I was hoping someone can help with finding some new Foam
surrounds and I can just fix em my self! Are there any surrounds that will fit the woofers on these?

For now I will put white rubber on the foam to hold them-its kinda like liquid latex or rubber cement, it
will move free but bind the foam from falling to dust,,,Iv seen this done to new foam and it prolongs
its life far beyond it with out...

Do an ebay search...tons of foam sellers there.
Ed

Tried everyone on ebay with no luck inner is 8 1/2" outter is 11" the inner is flat not sloping...

-1st, welcome to the Forum, mr scar

-to save some time searching this Forum; do not waste your time/ money repairing the surrounds [fails]...elmers glue works better than them 'kits'

-the adhesive you have, might buy you 3-6 mos [at 3/4 levels]

-the screws for the front/ rear panels are robsertsons [square drive]...i see alot of hacked up screws from using phillip heads

-when you can budget woofs...youll be suprised at what youve gradually been missing

-sorry to be the messanger...dont shoot

-on the bright side...great speakers dude

-what amp are you driving them with ???

-1st, welcome to the Forum, mr scar


-what amp are you driving them with ???

Thanks for the Welcome!!!
2 X 1.5t CARVER amps
In the past I was using the M-500t amps and a C-4000 pre-amp but that could go on and on
as I even had a Yamaha Pyramid amp years ago that was close to the Carver cube but was
black and pyramid shaped not cube...
C-2 Pre-amp now and the Platinum's use the Speaker control system w/Hol

Try these guys; say they do speaker reconditioning/refoaming and list Carver as brand that they support. Perhaps you can get them to sell you the foam surrounds only for Carver :

http://www.approvedaudioservice.com/brands.html

The surrounds of those woofers are unlike most others. Due to their unusual design they do not refoam well, if at all. Save up your money and buy new woofers. Seriously.

The surrounds of those woofers are unlike most others. Due to their unusual design they do not refoam well, if at all. Save up your money and buy new woofers. Seriously.

How about adding the "HONEYCOMB" Woofers in to replace the Paper cone ones? I know the ones I have now are 16 ohms and the honeycomb ones are 3.6 so what would need to be changed? Been a while since I played in this stuff and forgot everything from those days any more....

That isn't going to work either.

To go to older style woofers would involve enlarging your openings and changing your crossover, besides re-wiring. Bad idea. Get the new woofers that fit your units.

Robert R

Guess I'd have to agree with RR and F1. Don't make the mistake(s) I made when building my EPI 1000's: I tried (at first) to "save money" on the woofers and found that anything short of pure originals can only drive you nuts (even if you think the "bargain" route drivers (or x-over caps!) sound ok, it drives you nuts wondering whether or not the sound could/should be better. And 99% of the time it will). EVERYTHING effects speaker sound; the original designer(s) threaded a needle to get the "perfect" sound that they were designing for; any deviations from that will most likely be negative. For what I wasted on drivers that did not work out I almost could have bought all 100% new drivers from Huw at humanspeakers.com (I did buy two from him and used them in the front faces of the speakers)...but I settled for (the remaining six) used (exact replacement) EPI drivers from ePray (4 ohm, not 8 ohm!)..some I had to refoam, some were allready refoamed. Re-foaming is no gimme either, but the kits I buy have very detailed instructions and checks to make sure you do it right...unless u r a clutz, in which case, don't try it!
That said, your only other option might be to ship your drivers to the link I posted earlier and have them professionally refurb/refoam your drivers, but after the one extra shipping charge and what they charge for this refurb, I doubt you'd save much over new drivers. Might try buying new ones a few at a time so as to budget this expense?
Ed

This place was recommended to me by a forum member a while ago, I never quite got around to my re-foam project. If the speaker is going to be replaced eventually, there's nothing to lose by giving it a try, it'd just be a temporary bandaid until you can manage the new ones. If by some stroke of luck, you can fit a rubber surround to it and it works, it'll probably last for 20 years or so. Good luck !! Geoff
http://www.speakerrepair.com/

When you have F1nut, Elgrau & RobertR all agreeing (don't think it has EVER happened before) it is probably the right thing to do.

The only thing I can add is that you don't have to replace all the woofers at once. Replace the bad one(s) and save up for the rest. I replaced 2 of 6 in my silvers and the rest are still fine.

FrankieD

FrankieD, you noticed! We agree on how, where and when to get 'em, maybe not on how to test 'em.

New thought:
Has anybody with more savvy about wholesale buying than I have (and that really could be anybody) entertained the possibility of setting up a buying club, maybe through the forum, to save members some dough on these woofer, or anything else, for that matter? If just Ferrari and I replaced our woofers, there's over half a gross, right there.

Robert R

When you have F1nut, Elgrau & RobertR all agreeing (don't think it has EVER happened before) it is probably the right thing to do.

-hay...i mentioned 'it' 1st [not wasting the time or $$$]

-and i hate everyone equally