[Schumi]

So I bought a slick set of JBL LX500 floor speakers circa 1997-98 a few months ago. I absolutely love them. For the money they are excellent quality speakers. I would have preferred a set of LX600's (larger woofer, still looking for a set actually) but these were a steal of craigslist.

I had some friends over and got a little loud with them one night. I wasn't overdriving them wattage wise, but my not-so-great quality amp (also working on upgrading this) was on the distortion edge and the bass cooked the woofer foam surrounds.

They are 10 years old and based on the cabinets were not used a lot when they were new, so the foam was pretty fragile. It was perfect when I bought them but exercising them that much fatigued one of them (just one of the woofers) to break up.

Does anyone have any experience re-foaming the surrounds on woofers? They are very small woofers, only 6 1/2". I would think the smaller the woofer the harder to do this actually. Is this something you take somewhere to get done if you want it done right or should I trust these kits I see on the internet?


The other option is buy two new 6.5" woofers of an equal or higher quality. Unfortunately I priced some and it would be $50-$80 it looks to get high quality drivers, which is too much to spend on a set of speakers this old.

Thoughts?