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Rebuilding Yamaha NS1000M
I've owned a pair of NS1000M speakers for almost 20 years. I still
love their sound, but my wife wants them out because they're big and ugly. The cabinets are getting ratty, and the grilles disappeared long ago. Cladding the cabinets in new veneer would not resolve the size issue. What if I put each woofer into a new cabinet, and mount the other two drivers in some type of tube or post on top? Would it matter if the the smaller drivers are placed further back (I would put the midrange driver at ear level)? Assuming I know how to construct a rigid cabinet of the correct dimensions that contains the correct amount of damping material, would this be a silly exercise? What about the guts? Should I replace the pots with resistors? The cheap clips at the back of the cabinet will obviously have to go. Should I replace the capacitors on the crossovers? What type of wire should I use to hook everything back together? All tips and suggestions appreciated. |
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Dahms wrote: I've owned a pair of NS1000M speakers for almost 20 years. I still love their sound, but my wife wants them out because they're big and ugly. The cabinets are getting ratty, and the grilles disappeared long ago. Cladding the cabinets in new veneer would not resolve the size issue. What if I put each woofer into a new cabinet, and mount the other two drivers in some type of tube or post on top? Would it matter if the the smaller drivers are placed further back (I would put the midrange driver at ear level)? Assuming I know how to construct a rigid cabinet of the correct dimensions that contains the correct amount of damping material, would this be a silly exercise? What about the guts? Should I replace the pots with resistors? The cheap clips at the back of the cabinet will obviously have to go. Should I replace the capacitors on the crossovers? What type of wire should I use to hook everything back together? The midrange and tweeters for the NS-1000's are getting hard to find and are very expensive. I think that you might do better to sell the 1000's on E-bay, or part them out, and use the funds to buy something new and modern. As much as I like the 1000's, and I owned them since the early 80's, I doubt that you could do as well with smaller cabinets, and you would be out of luck when you eventually have a driver go bad. Another idea would be to paint the cabinets with a black urathane paint, and then use chains to hang them from the ceiling (thus freeing up the floor space). -john- -- ================================================== ================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ================================================== ================== |
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In article , Bruce
Dahms wrote: I've owned a pair of NS1000M speakers for almost 20 years. I still love their sound, but my wife wants them out because they're big and ugly. The cabinets are getting ratty, and the grilles disappeared long ago. Cladding the cabinets in new veneer would not resolve the size issue. What if I put each woofer into a new cabinet, and mount the other two drivers in some type of tube or post on top? Would it matter if the the smaller drivers are placed further back (I would put the midrange driver at ear level)? Assuming I know how to construct a rigid cabinet of the correct dimensions that contains the correct amount of damping material, would this be a silly exercise? What about the guts? Should I replace the pots with resistors? The cheap clips at the back of the cabinet will obviously have to go. Should I replace the capacitors on the crossovers? What type of wire should I use to hook everything back together? The midrange and tweeters for the NS-1000's are getting hard to find and are very expensive. I think that you might do better to sell the 1000's on E-bay, or part them out, and use the funds to buy something new and modern. As much as I like the 1000's, and I owned them since the early 80's, I doubt that you could do as well with smaller cabinets, and you would be out of luck when you eventually have a driver go bad. Another idea would be to paint the cabinets with a black urathane paint, and then use chains to hang them from the ceiling (thus freeing up the floor space). -john- -- ================================================== ================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ================================================== ================== |
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"John A. Weeks III" wrote in message ...
The midrange and tweeters for the NS-1000's are getting hard to find and are very expensive. I think that you might do better to sell the 1000's on E-bay, or part them out, and use the funds to buy something new and modern. As much as I like the 1000's, and I owned them since the early 80's, I doubt that you could do as well with smaller cabinets, and you would be out of luck when you eventually have a driver go bad. Another idea would be to paint the cabinets with a black urathane paint, and then use chains to hang them from the ceiling (thus freeing up the floor space). Good point about the drivers, John. I suppose it's too much to expect them to last forever. Any suggestions on a suitable replacement? I'm in Canada, so I'm kind of partial to Paradigm. The chains are an interesting idea, but I doubt the wife would be too keen on them (you can read whatever you want into that). |
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"John A. Weeks III" wrote in message ...
The midrange and tweeters for the NS-1000's are getting hard to find and are very expensive. I think that you might do better to sell the 1000's on E-bay, or part them out, and use the funds to buy something new and modern. As much as I like the 1000's, and I owned them since the early 80's, I doubt that you could do as well with smaller cabinets, and you would be out of luck when you eventually have a driver go bad. Another idea would be to paint the cabinets with a black urathane paint, and then use chains to hang them from the ceiling (thus freeing up the floor space). Good point about the drivers, John. I suppose it's too much to expect them to last forever. Any suggestions on a suitable replacement? I'm in Canada, so I'm kind of partial to Paradigm. The chains are an interesting idea, but I doubt the wife would be too keen on them (you can read whatever you want into that). |
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(Bruce Dahms) wrote in message . com...
(Stewart Pinkerton) wrote in message ... If you do any of this, you will no longer be listening to Yamaha NS-1000Ms, but to a homebrew which happens to use the same drivers. Judge for yourself the odds of this sounding as good as the original. Thanks for the feedback Stewart. Probably a silly question, but how critical do you think the box is to the sound? Isn't the midrange driver the heart of these speakers? IF the system was designed properly, the box is critical to the correct operation of the speaker. It forms an integral part of the physical operating parameters of the woofer. Boxes are just not there to keep the rear radiation of the woofer from escaping. The midrange is the heart of the system for the midrange frequencies, just as the woofer system (including the box) is the heart of the system for low frequencies and the tweeter is the heart of the system for the high frequencies. Change the volume of the enclsoure, and the system WILL be different. |
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