Can anyone recommend a service for fixing blown woofers (B&W DM110)

[david_b]

Hi -

I have a pair of B&W DM 110's with blown woofers. :( This is a 10" 2 way design. The woofers have die cast frames that are truncated to fit a narrow box. I pulled the speakers out of the enclosures to test them separately to verify the problem wasn't with wiring or with the xover. B&W says they don't offer these anymore, and Orange Country Speaker Repair doesn't fix them. it doesn't look like too hard a job - the voice coils still move freely in the frame, and there's no visual evidence (or smell) of overheating -- but I dont know how to do it. The spider would have to be unglued and reglued, for one thing.

Any suggestions how I can get these fixed, or find replacements? Or are they even worth fixing (it's a 20 year old speaker, at least.)

[spasticteapot]

eBay.

That said, what exactly is broken? Is the voice coil intact? If so, I might be able to fix them.

[david_b]

In one woofer, with the cone as far forward as I can move it by hand, I can actually see the bottom end of the voice coil, and i can see a broken wire. For the other one, I can't actually see what the problem is.

For both speakers, when I put music directly across the speaker terminals (bypassing the crossover) I don't hear anything. When I put a flashlight battery across the speaker terminals, i would expect to hear a clicking sound but hear nothing. I don't have a resistance meter, but I suspect if i tested it, it would show an open circuit.