Replacement for SL2000 and MW6510
dbruff35
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Hi fellow polkies. I am inheriting a pair of SDA SRS 2.3s and i am in need of a couple replacement drivers. I would be interested in replacing all six sl2000 tweeters because of the age. I know the polk parts department could hook me up with replacements (rdo194 or rdo198), but at 50$ a pop. I am also looking to replace 2 to 4 of the 6510 mid/woofers. Im going back to school for audio engineering, so i want to keep a budget of around 300$. Thanks for your time and let me know if you have any other resources to check for polk SDA parts.
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are the 6510 blown or not working?
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Two of the 6510 drivers have the center diffuser pushed in. Drivers still function fine, i just worry about how this affects the sound coming out of those drivers. Not to mention the aesthetic look is unpleasing of those crunched drivers.
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try some masking tape to pull it out. It should affect the sound at all.
MW6510's are hard to come by keep you eyes peel on ebay -
Masking tape is a good idea. The other method i was thinking was to use gentle suction to pull them back out. Some sort of adhesive tape seems like a more careful approach to resolving this issue. I worry about how fragile the cone material has become after 20 years. I'm picking the speakers up tomorrow so i guess we'll see what works best. Thanks again for the tip.
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bring them home on their backs the magnets on the 6510 could shift and ruin them if their on the sides.
suction may or may not work the dust cover on the drivers is almost like cloth unlike paper so you won't get a good seal. one other method i've used is a small straight pin to stick through and work out the dent. good sticky tape would be my first method. Magnets are more fragile than the cone just be very careful. I used a vacuum on an old paper woofer before with a paper towel tube and held the cone so it did not get sucked out real fast and pull the wires thought the cone or ruin the voice coil.
