Can the crossovers on my loudspeakers be rebuilt?

They are BIC America Formula 2’s from about 1973 or so Impedance 6 Ohm I have them hooked up to a Kenwood Stereo Receiver from 1999 and the tweeters do not output any sound. Are they repairable? Woofers are in great shape and sound nice no dry rot with the rubber surrounds.
I just had installed 6 ohm Tweeters out of a pair of Speakers from 1987 in Mint Condition. The old ones were dry rotted out.

You might want to google your speakers and see if anyone has done a rebuild before you may be able to get some tips on what to do…if your switching out to a different driver set you want the drivers to have similar characteristics to the original drivers the most critical being the Impedance next the sensitivity and last the frequency range…you may be able to get by just replacing the capacitors and the resistors in the crossover with ones of same value but some changes may also make it sound better or may be needed……it can get quite complicated and almost always what ever changes you make no matter how close to the original you get… will make the speaker sound different…its just weather the new sound is acceptable or not….

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2 Responses to “Can the crossovers on my loudspeakers be rebuilt?”

Daniel K on August 2nd, 2011 at 4:40 am

They are repairable - you can just get a pair of tweeters of a similar type from Parts Express - the new tweeter may not have the exact sound of the old one but they probably will sound just fine:

http://www.parts-express.com/speakers.cfm

Just make sure the new one will fit in the hole for the old one - if the mounting holes match up, all the better.
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Lance on August 2nd, 2011 at 5:09 am

You might want to google your speakers and see if anyone has done a rebuild before you may be able to get some tips on what to do…if your switching out to a different driver set you want the drivers to have similar characteristics to the original drivers the most critical being the Impedance next the sensitivity and last the frequency range…you may be able to get by just replacing the capacitors and the resistors in the crossover with ones of same value but some changes may also make it sound better or may be needed……it can get quite complicated and almost always what ever changes you make no matter how close to the original you get… will make the speaker sound different…its just weather the new sound is acceptable or not….
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