Mackie 824 8' Woofer

[Joe Danger]

One of my series 1 824 monitors is splitting around the diameter and rattling. Replacement series 1 woofers are no longer available, does anyone know if the later series 2 woofers are compatable or if both would need to be replaced?
Thanks, Joe

[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
Joe Danger > wrote:
>
>One of my series 1 824 monitors is splitting around the diameter and
>rattling. Replacement series 1 woofers are no longer available, does
>anyone know if the later series 2 woofers are compatable or if both
>would need to be replaced?

I don't, but I would send the driver off to a reconing shop and see
if they can repair it.

If you replace drivers in stereo systems you _always_ need to replace
them in pairs, even if only one is bad.
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Joe Danger]

Thanks for the reply Scott, The local reconing guys that I've worked with since the 70's are the one's who told me the series1 were no longer available and it would be really expensive to get the original drivers. I know that replacing both with the later version would be the easier way to assure they reproduce the same, but it's much like matched pair microphones. If the variation is so slight, nobody will ever notice the subtile difference. I've got 2 different 18 inch drivers in my old JBL 4430's and only I can detect the difference and compensate. These Mackies are my main monitors and I can't afford to fix something that ain't broke. The series2 are available, and if 2 inch tape doesn't reveal the difference I should be fine. For the time being I guess it's back to the trusty old NS-10's and JBL's.
Thanks again, Joe

In article >,
Joe Danger > wrote:
>
>One of my series 1 824 monitors is splitting around the diameter and
>rattling. Replacement series 1 woofers are no longer available, does
>anyone know if the later series 2 woofers are compatable or if both
>would need to be replaced?

I don't, but I would send the driver off to a reconing shop and see
if they can repair it.

If you replace drivers in stereo systems you _always_ need to replace
them in pairs, even if only one is bad.
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."