Has anyone had B&O speakers repaired by the company in huddersfield  called Recone , i have a pair of passive cx 50's in need of repair and was wondering what kind of service they provided  . 

The last time I contacted Recone was about 2 months ago and they were not taking on any more repairs until further notice. You would be advised to phone them.

New drivers are still available from B&O and cost around £25 each or foam rings are available on eBay for DIY repairs.

I bought a set of drivers for my CX50's from my dealer last month for £25 each. It is a five minute per speaker easy soldering job to change them even if (like me) you have very basic skills with a soldering iron. I suspect recone would charge more than that to refoam them them as refoaming is quite labour-intensive.

Simon

These can be refoamed by you if you buy the parts, its fairly straightforward.

You could als give Wembley Loudspeaker a call, they've done a couple of jobs for me, both which were pretty awkward to do, but they made a good of of them.

I would personally just order new drivers. While the re-cone may be cheaper, IMO it's not worth the hassle. It can affect the sound in a negative way too, unless you can get the driver absolutely perfectly aligned.

Alex:

unless you can get the driver absolutely perfectly aligned.

Very easily sorted with a 1.5 volt battery

Craig

Ah now that I had never thought of! I've only ever tried to recone two (identical) drivers and failed - they worked, but sounded poor and sounded very strange off-axis (huge mid-spike, all other mids disappeared ).

Alex:

Ah now that I had never thought of! I've only ever tried to recone two (identical) drivers and failed - they worked, but sounded poor and sounded very strange off-axis (huge mid-spike, all other mids disappeared ).

My attempted repairs were as succesful as yours. I bought new drivers!

Simon