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Monitors? what to do...

Postby jkhuri44 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:51 am

I have a pair of Yorkville YSM1P's which i am less than happy about as general monitors...

one of em works 100%, the other has an annoying buzz when its around 100Hz or so...otherwise it works perfectly...

its too expensive to repair, for the price of these speakers....and i dont think i could even sell the pair...

wtf do u do?!?
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby Lucas » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:46 pm

Keep the dodgy one, drop it a couple of times and then use it as an auratone..
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby Lucas » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:54 pm

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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby jkhuri44 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:13 pm

lol, seriously guys :P
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby stosostu » Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:49 pm

If you want to repair the speaker an email to Yorkville might be a good start, they may have replacement cone/voice coil assemblies, assuming that is the problem, it could of course be a bent frame, in which case its not repairable. If its not worth the effort then junk it and get a replacement driver, once again the manufacturer would be a good place to start.
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby jkhuri44 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:21 pm

true that, thanks for that..prob is the speakers were 1K brand new a while back, so a replacement cone may be too expensive, i guess instead of "guessing" i should ask...
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby chribble » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:25 pm

use it as a subkick
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby jkhuri44 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:40 pm

god damn it, just called Dynamic Music...the aussie distro...they stopped making em, getting a recone at the Speaker Doctor seems to be the only solution...prob will cost more than the damn speaker...ffs.
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby jkhuri44 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:54 pm

edit: The speaker Hospital...not the speaker doctor...

price of a recone is 250 or so....will see whats wrong with these...guess i answered my own question...
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby Kurt » Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:27 pm

I've had no dramas getting PA stuff reconed by Etone for a lot less than that. Another option may be to get a pair of replacement woofers with similar specs to the originals, if you know the specs.
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Re: Monitors? what to do...

Postby The Tasmanian » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:02 pm

But you should recone both speakers to make them matched.
Even different cardboard affects the sound of monitors.
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