Tannoy Berkeley

[cooky]

Cool, I've emailed them

Stick with Lockwood Audio-seriously.
I've just received an email from them to say they are away till Tuesday.
385 HPD kits are £385/pair(plus shipping) and they(Lockwood) only charge £40 to install them-that is a very low labour cost and beats anyone else doing it tbh!!!


Frank

[mikeyb]

Stick with Lockwood Audio-seriously.
I've just received an email from them to say they are away till Tuesday.
385 HPD kits are £385/pair(plus shipping) and they(Lockwood) only charge £40 to install them-that is a very low labour cost and beats anyone else doing it tbh!!!


Frank

I did think they were on holiday, which was why I didn't phone the mobile number.

I have most of the packaging ready to box them up, it's just occurred to me that I have a box in the attic that I sent my B&W PV1 Subwoofer back to B&W for repair in, so that might be strong enough. Although the PV1 only weighs 21kg. I'll dig it out and check it out before buying anything else.

[walpurgis]

Stick with Lockwood Audio-seriously.
I've just received an email from them to say they are away till Tuesday.
385 HPD kits are £385/pair(plus shipping) and they(Lockwood) only charge £40 to install them-that is a very low labour cost and beats anyone else doing it tbh!!!


Frank

Why?

Lockwood supply non-standard cones, which are not necessarily ideal.

Wembley Loudspeakers are a long established company with huge experience, so no reason to doubt their abilities. Me personally, I'd sooner have new surrounds properly fitted to a nicely run-in pair of original cones.

Having said that though, I'd do the work myself, but appreciate that most would not take this on.

[mikeyb]

Why?

Lockwood supply non-standard cones, which are not necessarily ideal.

Wembley Loudspeakers are a long established company with huge experience, so no reason to doubt their abilities. Me personally, I'd sooner have new surrounds properly fitted to a nicely run-in pair of original cones.

Having said that though, I'd do the work myself, but appreciate that most would not take this on.

I think cooky was referring to only charging £40 for the labour, which in this day and age is pretty good.

[struth]

Why?

Lockwood supply non-standard cones, which are not necessarily ideal.

Wembley Loudspeakers are a long established company with huge experience, so no reason to doubt their abilities. Me personally, I'd sooner have new surrounds properly fitted to a nicely run-in pair of original cones.

Having said that though, I'd do the work myself, but appreciate that most would not take this on.

me too.. these things take for ever to break-in. with my listening it might take a lifetime

[walpurgis]

I think cooky was referring to only charging £40 for the labour, which in this day and age is pretty good.

Yes. It's not bad.

Mind you, swapping cones is a fairly quick job. Somebody geared up and used to doing it, shouldn't take more than an hour or so per pair, the HPD's are pretty easy to work on..

Fitting new surrounds on the other hand, takes quite a while. Much more work involved.

[cooky]

Lockwood also supply 'standard cones', the options they offer are just that, options. Mike just needs to be clear what he wants i.e. 385 HPD (tanoplas) cones.
They just quoted me for 385HPD recone kits plus labour.
I've seen Tannoy refoams done by Wembley that have used spliced nonstandard foam, foams on the front etc etc I've never seen one done properly.
As Mike is going for the full recone I'd go with the firm with a 'Tannoy service' reputation to protect. That isn't slagging off Wembley, it's making a choice..
As I've mentioned to Mike if the cones were in good condition I'd be inclined to refoam and save a few hundred quid.

[mikeyb]

Lockwood also supply 'standard cones', the options they offer are just that, options. Mike just needs to be clear what he wants i.e. 385 HPD (tanoplas) cones.
They just quoted me for 385HPD recone kits plus labour.
I've seen Tannoy refoams done by Wembley that have used spliced nonstandard foam, foams on the front etc etc I've never seen one done properly.
As Mike is going for the full recone I'd go with the firm with a 'Tannoy service' reputation to protect. That isn't slagging off Wembley, it's making a choice..
As I've mentioned to Mike if the cones were in good condition I'd be inclined to refoam and save a few hundred quid.

I've asked to make sure it's the Tanoplas surround, but I'm also watching videos as to how to refoam myself.

One thing I don't understand is looking at the videos I can't see how the glued edge becomes attached to the underside of the cone? They seem to show the glue on the surround but away from the underside of the cone, that has me puzzled.

Pretty sure with help from my daughter's Fiancé it's doable, can't be that difficult right?

And at only £50 a set it's a huge saving in the short term, yes the Scotsman in me is kicking in lol

[cooky]

Pm sent.
Someone upthread did mention they may have been refoamed once already(easy to establish by taking them out and having a look at the rear of the cone) and as yours have the early basket(like mine) they could be getting on a bit and benefit from a full re-cone. With the cabs being in such great nick this looks to be the option I'd choose-they'd be mint.

[mikeyb]

Pm sent.
Someone upthread did mention they may have been refoamed once already(easy to establish by taking them out and having a look at the rear of the cone) and as yours have the early basket(like mine) they could be getting on a bit and benefit from a full re-cone. With the cabs being in such great nick this looks to be the option I'd choose-they'd be mint.

Yeah, having read as much as I can in the last couple of hours, the re-cone seems to be the best option, I'll arrange it as soon as I can, I'll get the crossovers looked at while the drivers are away as I won't be using them anyway and it would cut down on the wait to have them running again.

Piggy bank here we come ...........