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I have a pair of T830 speakers that are probably 20 years old and one of the "woofers"? blewout. I really like these speakers, is it worth fixing them? Where can I get them fixed? or What is the modern day equivalent? Thanks.
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Yes - you have the sub-woofer. It is a powered sub-woofer with a built in amplifier for both itself and a pair of small satellite speakers. Frankly, given the low cost of the whole system it may not be worth selling on ebay due to the high shipping costs of such an item, but I imagine you could get $30 for it or so on local craigslist or something, assuming you have no use for a sub-woofer...
As these units get old, the solder joints can start to fail. Also, come of the components are getting tired. If you have no electronics experience, bring this to a servicer. I typically overhaul these units for about $100 plus parts. In most cases, the parts costis less than $20. These are solid units and you can probably get another 30 years out of it.
Part of the overhaul should be reseating all of the output transistors and replacing all of the heatsink compound as well as cleaning out all of the pots and switches.
You can probably trace which colors go to the smaller of the amps... Yellow is often used for tweeter but there really is no standard. Striped wire is probably the minus lead. If a pair is heavier, that would be the pair for the woofer... and red is often positive for woofer and black the minus. Searching the Mackie schematics doesn't really show colors. You could call their service dept.
There's no way of telling really! Even if something did go wrong there's no reason to say it couldn't be fixed very cheaply. It could last another 10 years or it could go wrong in the next few hours.
I will say one thing after 12 years of service and never off you certainly have had your monies worth!
The only 2 solutions are:
1. Just find an equivalent driver to replace. Re-wire new driver speakers into the enclosures. The old 201s may have had decent drivers (although probably paper cone) for back then, but now just about anything will sound as good in those particular cabinets.
2. Call Bose and exchange them for current 201 speakers (higher clarity more powerful).
Bose will give you about 30-40% off I believe on a series 5 model. They now pay for inbound and outbound shipping as well.
Is it old ? Is it making a rattling noise inside ?
Completely lost its sound as in completely stopped sounding like a woofer and has higher frequencys coming out of it or as in no sound at all coming out of it ?
I would say it's probably the crossover, perhaps a burnt resistor.
It is called "dry-rot" and it happens with age to paper cone speakers. I am not aware of any products made to help prevent this problem. But you can always replace the woofers with new one's or find a place that "recones" speakers and that would solve your problem for a long time. If you have rubber surround on the cones, it would take much longer to have any type of dry-rot problems. The "foam" type of surround on the cones is the worst for this problem. Most new woofers have polypropelyne surround of the cones and it would probably outlast you, so replacement with a good quality woofer really is a good option.
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