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A plea for help from my Hales T-8's

Hello group - I am not an audiophile, just a fella who enjoys music and pride of ownership of quality equipment. Someone may or may not remember the handle from a year or more ago - I frequented Audiogon regularly and was able to assimilate the basic knowledge required to put togerher a system with which I intend to grow old. I spent more money than I had business doing, but knew that I would not be taking the upgrade path, and barring component failure, was just looking to assemble my final system. Considering my lack of knowledge and experience, I couldn't be happier, knowing full well that there are many more rungs to the ladder.
Still with me - thanks.

The unimaginable (to me) has occurred. Last nite while dusting I discovered both tweeters on the Hales T-8's have been damaged. One is severe, looking like crumpled tin foil. The other has a quarter-inch dent. Naturally, no one knows how this happened and they were at a loss to understand my infuriation (unfortunately, I am materialistic and the Hales were my one true pride and joy).

Unless something has changed, I do not believe these tweeters are replaceable with like kind, unless somebody has a set of T-8's that have endured some other type of tragedy w/ the tweeters still intact. Does anyone believe
(or better yet, has anyone ever done this) that these tweeters could be swapped out w/ some current offering, without totally compromising the design. I guess the logical first choice would be to contact Ty at Tylers, as I live within an easy commute of his location, to hear his thoughts and learn if he would be up to undertaking the repair.

I guess I'm just hoping that someone who has already experienced this will respond with their solution, but also would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this matter. Thank you very much if you're so inclined.

Components:

Audiomeca Mephisto II CD
Audio Logic M-34 dac
Audo Note M5 pre
Clayton Audio M-70's monos
Hales T-8's

Happy Holidays,
Tom
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You can try using packing tape(the clear type and sticking the tape right on your tweeter dome and then gently lift the tape and that usually works. If it does not work you can replace just the voice coil domes with new ones from Madisound assuming they still have some in stock.They may have some Hales coive coils left. You can keep the tweeters if you want as the metal domes are very easily replacable. The hard part of the work is actually getting the tweeters out of the speaker box. Be careful not to let the tweeter fall and hit your midrange driver. The tweeters in the T5's are the same as the T8's.You would have difficulty finduing those tweeters but you don't have to. The voice coil domes are probably still available from Madisound. If I remember right they are like $20 or so each.
Good luck.
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