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I believe I have blown one of my woofers from one of my Beolab 6000 speakers. How can I get a replacement and do you know how much they are? Thanks in advance!
Diggs
Hi Diggs:
I purchased a pair of BeoLab 6000's a few years ago that had bad rubber surrounds on all four woofers. I could hear it immediately upon setting them up. However, I found that one has to look very closely to actually see the separations in the rubber surrounds. I actually didn't notice it when first visually inspecting them.
I decided to replace them all myself with new drivers from B&O. Being in the northeast of the USA, I made my purchase from Atlantic Systems in Hanover, Massachusetts. Paul and Mark are the two B&O "experts" at Atlantic and always guide me well whenever I am in need of parts. They are also very generous in sharing their expansive knowledge with me when needed - no purchase necessary.
Paul advised wisely that I also purchase the foam baffle kit and the foam tape along with the drivers. That was great advice as I found the baffles to be completely disintegrated once I got in there. So broken down were they, that I actually had to vacuum the interior to clean them thoroughly. The new baffles appeared to have been manufactured from a different foam and will hopefully have a longer service life then the originals. I actually didn't purchase the foam tape from B&O assuming that I could find it locally in a hardware store (and save some money). I came to regret that as I found that most of the home insulation type foam tapes are of too high a density and put too much "push-back" pressure on the driver assemblies when screwing them down. I finally did locate a low density tape after a lengthy search. If I did it again, I'd just purchase the B&O manufactured tape and be done with it.
The job is not that difficult if you have the proper tools and materials. There was no BeoLab 6000 service manual available at that time here on BeoWorld but I believe that there is now. I did a perfect job without it though as it is actually pretty straight forward.
The cost of the complete kit with the four driver assemblies and new foam baffles came in at somewhere around $360.00 including tax and shipping to my home and was well worth it.
I've noticed that one can also purchase new rubber surrounds on eBay allowing one to repair the bad drivers yourself. But I decided to go with new especially considering that the BeoLab 6000's sell for $3,700.00 new here in the states. At 10% of the new cost for essentially all new speakers, I considered it to be a very good deal.
Once completed, they sounded absolutely beautiful. (A world apart from how they sounded when damaged.)
I have since sold that pair of 6000's and went on to purchase a pair of secondhand BeoLab 3's. One of those recently went out on me (bad transformer) and will require an entirely new circuit board assembly as an exchange. Ouch, as this will cost me close to $400.00 WITH the exchange. Without the exchange, the chassis (as it is called) costs somewhere around $1,200.00. Since I don't have that kind of cash right now, I have hooked up my BeoLab 2500's to which I executed beoworld guru 'Die Bogener's - Workshop Beolab 2500 Adiophil' mod requiring new opamps (3 - OPA2134), new caps & jumpers (2 each) and selective SMC cap removal (3). My BL2500's now sound as good as BL 4000's after this modification. The difference is amazing actually.
Good luck and should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Michael
Michael,
Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I have ordered the woofer ($~75) and will see about the internals after I take apart. It looks pretty easy and straight forward to replace. If I have any other questions after I get in there I will let you know. Thanks again,
Hi,
No adjustment needed when woofers being replaced? Just asking because the B&O service manual recommends that.
Detailed instructions are included in the box with every replacement woofer.
Regards Graham
I just received the replacement yesterday but it says that I need to calibrate the woofer with an audio oscillator. How can I get one of these or where can I get this done? Any suggestions? Thanks!
Calibrating the woofers is not necessary,you don't hear the difference anyway.
I did not make that adjustment when I replaced all four of mine either.
Paul at Atlantic systems advised that there wouldn't be any discernible difference. And based on the fact that I, too, didn't have the necessary equipment to make the adjustment, that was advice that I could appreciate.
All I remember is that the sound improved vastly after the project was done. Like new!
MSR
Excellent! Thanks.
I replaced and it sounds great! There was a tear in the rubber surrounds. Thanks!