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Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

beoperson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:53:04 GMT

I also recall that top driver fitting is slightly different from bottom one.

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

lmdcmn — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:42:24 GMT

I have had success got at least the buttom woofer out, but now I have the next problem, where to get a new one.

/Carsten

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

hallin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:57:12 GMT

Thanks joeyboygolf

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

joeyboygolf — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:23:19 GMT

Yes, they are held in by a bit of mastic sealant but you have to remove all the modules starting from the top of the speaker as each module overlaps the next!

You will need to just loosen the top of the amplifier module as well to get the last woofer out.

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

355f — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:35:12 GMT

joeyboygolf:

They are not that much more expensive. Less than £40 each as I recall from the last time I replaced some that had fallen to bits.
The actual drivers are not very expensive in most speaker systems although the quality that B&O uses is particularly unimpressive. I would say the exception to this statement is the so called woofers in the CX range which always seem over specified to me. Apart from the foam rot of course.
The thing about B&O is the bits are cheap and it's the packaging that's expensive!

I will second that, quite simply some of the cheapest drivers available 6000 and 8000 seem particularly bad

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

hallin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:03:54 GMT

How do you remove the woofers on BeoLab 6000? I have two thats blown and need to replace them. After you remove the screws the woofers seems to be glued to the speaker. Anyone that have done this before?

Thankful for help /Tobias

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

Alex — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:38:11 GMT

joeyboygolf:
They are not that much more expensive. Less than £40 each as I recall from the last time I replaced some that had fallen to bits.
The actual drivers are not very expensive in most speaker systems although the quality that B&O uses is particularly unimpressive. I would say the exception to this statement is the so called woofers in the CX range which always seem over specified to me. Apart from the foam rot of course.
The thing about B&O is the bits are cheap and it's the packaging that's expensive!

Except for the BeoLab 5s; each drive cone is around £250 I believe. That's almost as expensive as they come, although you can get better than this. Expect it would be wasted though due to the DSPs.

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

joeyboygolf — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:08:19 GMT

They are not that much more expensive. Less than £40 each as I recall from the last time I replaced some that had fallen to bits.

The actual drivers are not very expensive in most speaker systems although the quality that B&O uses is particularly unimpressive. I would say the exception to this statement is the so called woofers in the CX range which always seem over specified to me. Apart from the foam rot of course.

The thing about B&O is the bits are cheap and it's the packaging that's expensive!

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

Alex — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:57:53 GMT

Beobird:
woofers from 25,- in a speaker from 1150,- damn I'm really shocked about this. Does anybody knows what the prices of the lab 8000 drivers are, and if it is possible to change the old drivers to the new advanced bass drivers ?

That's not very surprising. Speakers costing many times that still use pretty cheap drivers. For example ATC use a standard set of drivers, and bar their hyper-expensive midrange driver, they're all around £50 each (despite some of their speakers costing many times that of the 6000s/8000s).

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

Beobird — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:53:40 GMT

joeyboygolf:
They are not very expensive from your dealer, about £25 as I recall.

woofers from 25,- in a speaker from 1150,- damn I'm really shocked about this. Does anybody knows what the prices of the lab 8000 drivers are, and if it is possible to change the old drivers to the new advanced bass drivers ?

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

Tom — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:57:14 GMT

wood:

hi
Does anybody know who is the manufactorer of the woofers (2 pieces 9 cm / 3,5") built in the BeoLab 6000? Where can i buy it? I need 3 of them.
Thanks for all answers in advance.
wood

what happened to your woofers? did you kill your BL6000s?

Re: Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

joeyboygolf — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:40:23 GMT

They are not very expensive from your dealer, about £25 as I recall.

Woofer in the BeoLab 6000

wood — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:13:15 GMT

Does anybody know who is the manufactorer of the woofers (2 pieces 9 cm / 3,5") built in the BeoLab 6000? Where can i buy it? I need 3 of them.

Thanks for all answers in advance.

wood