Since there are many brands and types of speakers It is impractical to publish a set price list for all speakers. Please click on the button to the right for a range of prices for various speaker repairs. Standard drivers will be on the low end of the scale. Very high power, rare or special purpose drivers tend to run toward the higher end of the rate scale. We are currently very heavily backlogged, Please allow 6 - 8 weeks after we receive the driver for us to complete the repairs.
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Our Estimate form is currently not working with Netscape :(
Our speaker surround repairs include: Full inspection of the cone, spider, basket and voice coil. Replacement of the required surround and
mounting gasket when needed, cleaning, recentering the voice coil motor assembly, replacement of the dustcap, and a complete operational test of the driver.
Our Warranty on foam surround repairs is 8 years (surround life) 1 year on
automotive products.
Packing and Shipping
Currently FedEx ground is the most economical method of shipping. Please ship the drivers only. Packing should be in a sturdy cardboard box with either bubble wrap or foam packing. (Please don't use Styrofoam peanuts for packing.) Be sure to include your return address and contact information on a sheet inside the box. Ship to:
Allman Music
1101 Monterey Blvd. NE
St. Petersburg, FL 33704
Billing and Payment
Once repairs are completed, we will send you a BillPoint or PayPal Credit Card invoice that can be paid through their secure transaction payment service. Both services are free to the buyer.
Payment by Money Order (Postal prefered)
or personal check is also accepted. Checks
must clear our bank before speakers can be
returned. Please address Money Orders or checks to:
FAQ: Isn't it more reasonable to replace rather than to repair the driver?
Answer: If you know the exact Theil Small parameters of the driver and shopped around a great deal you could find a suitable generic replacement for the drivers you have for approximately what it will cost to refoam them. The OEM drivers will be considerably more expensive. If you don't know all of the drivers exact characteristics you can end up with a driver / cabinet / crossover mismatch that can sound horrible in various frequency ranges. For example the crossover cabinet and matching network of your speakers were all tuned for the original drivers. If a replacement driver has a different Fs, for example it could sound "boomy" at certain frequencies or be weak depending on the where the original and the replacement Fs's are. The list goes on and on. Your JBL is of course the higher quality speaker than the Scott and would be more prone to problems with a generic replacement than the Scott. Your safest choice is to refoam the original drivers and put them back in alignment to their original specifications. Your speakers will then sound exactly like they did when they were new. Since the materials have improved considerably in the last 10 years the surround on your repaired speaker will last longer than the original did. Since Speaker Domain specializes in drivers I have literally hundreds of drivers available to me for replacement purposes in all price ranges from almost every brand. Even with all of that I still recommend a repair to the original driver where ever possible so long as it's frame is straight rather than a replacement driver. In some cases where the speaker frame has been damaged and a OEM driver isn't available or is prohibitively expensive I can pick a driver with a close match and then recalculate and retune the crossover network and cabinet porting to bring the speaker back into a flat response performance again. But my engineering time and lab testing time to redesign a speaker can cost a lot more than a new speaker in the same category as your originals. For that reason I only do redesigns on collectable and vintage speakers that someone has really grown attached to and doesn't want to part with.
Kent
FAQ: How do I choose the correct speaker power rating for my amplifier?
FAQ: How do I choose the right power rated speaker for my amplifier?
Answer: The RMS power rating of a speaker should allways be equal to or greater than the RMS power rating of the amplifier driving it. The peak power rating of a driver only indicates the instantaneous peak power a driver can incure without mechanical failure. Over powering any speaker, no matter what brand it is, will eventually result in voice coil or mechanical failure of the driver.
