Hard to tell how things will really age and I honestly do not think that modern drivers will age as well as some vintage has. I have modern drivers in my scrape piles many killed by foam degradation modern plastics are used in most everything and some of those as they age become gummy and break down into the VC.
Dude, where's my bass? Oh, lost to stiffened rubber surrounds...who knew?
Started a thread on "Cables" re: better cables to help restore bass to my B&W CM-4 speakers...so while preparing and listening to speakers for cable evaluation, our daughter - who has very acute hearing, unlike my senior ears! - noticed sort of a "crackling" sound in left speaker, and sure enough, removing cloth speaker covers, we notice a 6cm hairline fracture in the surround of the mid-range cone. In fact, checking the rubber surrounds of bass and mid-range cones in both speakers, there were significant areas of stiffened and brittle rubber material, which - I would presume - drastically muted the speaker responses to incoming audio signal. So, what to do? Can the surrounds themselves be replaced w/o impairing cone native sonic qualities? Totally new area here for me, having never dealt with material failure or deterioration in speaker components. Suggestions most welcome!
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