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reconed speaker - not same tone [message #20900]

Wed, 09 July 2014 10:51

vintagefan
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Registered: March 2014
Location: Dallas

Senior Member

Anyone have this same scenario? I had an original Eminence 10" 8 ohm speaker quit working in one of my Kustom K100C-8 4x10's..... My tech here in Dallas had it reconed. But the reconed speaker doesn't sound exactly the same as originally. It is slightly bassier, muddier. The speaker looks the same as before with the aluminum center cap, but the cone is a little heavier material. Thumping on it with my finger it even sounds thicker and bassier than the sound I hear when thumping on one of the other original speakers. And the original's have thinner material.

So I installed a spare original Eminence speaker and the original treble tone is back now.

Now, I need to add that I use my amps in my tv room/studio and only turn them up to say 3 ot 4 on a scale of 1 to 10. So I hear every slight tone in these amps. The reason I switched to vintage Kustoms is I can get good treble tone at a low volume. So the slightly bassier muddier reconed speaker would probably be fine for someone who cranks the amp up louder.

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