"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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I've got some Urei 809's soffit mounted in my control room. I went to
all the trouble of soffit mounting them only to learn that i don't
really care for them. my studio designer said "trust me"

So, what does your studio designer say? Hopefully, he'll say "OK,
I'll eat them and the cost of installing them and we can try something
else."

There's some tears in the cones, though. They are
quite old and run down.

That can make a difference, but you should still be able to tell
whether you liked them in concept, unless the cones are so badly torn
that they are no longer moving.

But does anyone have any ideas either for speaker cabinets of the same
dimensions that would fit in the soffits

You can fit anything smaller into the soffits with a little carpentry
work. But soffit mounted speakers should pretty much be a design
integrated with the rest of the room, not something you plug in like
free standing monitors. I think you need to work with your "studio
designer" on this one.



Did you like them before they were soffited? IME 809s are not the best
sounding speakers of the line, but in the right room they should work fine,
if you like what Ureis do. I'd also think that ripped/compromised cones
would play havoc with the time align circuitry. Have you ever heard a pair
in good shape? If they are that run down, it's possible that the speakers
are just fatigued beyond usefulness. Are any replacements available through
your designer? You might want to check that out.

Don



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