My two cents, as we say in the States. First, a summary of my limited experience. For the six eight inch woofers I have refoamed, I cut off the dust cap, used shims, used a new (slightly larger) dust cap. 100% success rate so far. For the two CX50s I refoamed, I did not shim, did not use a battery, did essentially nothing to center the foam to the basket

[quote user="1914mvs"] Need help in finding a replacement speaker grill cover. Also need speaker wire with connectors that are USA compatible. Thanks for all ideas.Speakers are vintage Beovox M100-2. [/quote] You can find the speaker cable on Ebay from seller "lazerwave." I think you want DIN female on one end to go onto the Beovox

[quote user="Jeff"] In this case the "little hifi shop" was Tweeter/Sound Advice. Sound Advice was a Florida company, tons of stores, that was bought out by Tweeter, which was more of a nationwide US company. My buddy worked there starting with Sound Advice. One day visiting him he was in the back eating lunch, and I stopped and

[quote user="chartz"] HERE! This seller refoams professionally, so buy with confidence! [/quote] Too bad Martin is in Denmark and not the US.

[quote user="Step1"] So all those little hifi shops that lost their franchise's around the workd basically boils down to you complaining!!! [/quote] One of those "little hifi shops" was HiFi Buys of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where my first wife bought my first Beogram, an RX 2 I still own and use. Here is HiFi Buys' advertisement

[quote user="hemenex"] [quote user="Eugene"]Beomaster 1600[/quote] Looks like a BM1600 (7xFM) in a BM1700's housing (silver)??? [/quote] Type 1703, U.S. only styling according to Beocentral.

Very cool, Eugene. Can the 1600 be hung on the wall?

Refoaming is not difficult - just doubled my lifetime total to eight this week. In fact, I'm listening to a pair of refoamed speakers as I type this. I'd say give it a go. Regarding a "reputable shop" in the States: I've never used a pro to refoam loudspeakers. However: Meniscus advertises this service and I've bought many

Eugene: do I see the old Discwasher stylus brush there? I bought one of those in about 1986 and gave it away when I got an RX 2 (with the black brush) four or five years later. Do they still make that brush? I still have my D4 record brush from the 80's (still works like a charm) and a Discwasher branded Zerostat 3 anti-static gun. I bought that

[quote user="Leslie"] Bought a beautifull B&O cabinet for demo use of the Serene. [/quote] Very cool. And now you have documented for the world the exact moment your home stopped being a place of residence and bacame a museum. Here in the States we probably would need a permit for that.