12-12-2017, 11:50 PM
The 96 has been playing now for a day or 2. 2 problems for me to ask questions about:
the speaker cone was torn which is really not that much of a problem. However, it is warped a bit. One side is farther down in the "basket" than the other causing the voice coil to be crooked in the gap. I can't hear it at normal listening volumes, but at very low volumes, I can hear what i think is the voice coil rubbing. have any of you worked to try and straighten out the cone? Perhaps my only option is to attempt a recone.
Second, and this is a repeat question, is there a way to "re-carbon" a volume control? the specs say the volume control should be 500K. Mine measures 3.2 meg. As I suspected, most of the volume control happens in the first 1/3 of the travel. I like the elegant mechanism in the control and would like to keep it. How was the resistance element laid down in the first place? Can it be duplicated?
the speaker cone was torn which is really not that much of a problem. However, it is warped a bit. One side is farther down in the "basket" than the other causing the voice coil to be crooked in the gap. I can't hear it at normal listening volumes, but at very low volumes, I can hear what i think is the voice coil rubbing. have any of you worked to try and straighten out the cone? Perhaps my only option is to attempt a recone.
Second, and this is a repeat question, is there a way to "re-carbon" a volume control? the specs say the volume control should be 500K. Mine measures 3.2 meg. As I suspected, most of the volume control happens in the first 1/3 of the travel. I like the elegant mechanism in the control and would like to keep it. How was the resistance element laid down in the first place? Can it be duplicated?
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