My next project: Recapping some Bowers and Wilkins (B&W) DM600 thrift shop specials.
Posted: June 8th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: projects | Tags: bowers and wilkins, bw 600, project, speaker recap, speaker recapping | No Comments »
The offending capacitors on the B&W 600 speaker.
I bought some great (I thought) speakers at a thrift shop on Valencia in San Francisco the other day. Amidst all the usual crap Sanyo and Matsui plastic junk, I spotted some all black speakers on the bottom shelf with the B&W badge. Knowing that they make a quality speakers, I overlooked the holes in the speaker grill and the bruised corners and took them the checkout to pay my $25 finders fee.
They felt nice and heavy, and when I plugged them into my Beomaster 1900 amp, they sounded pretty good. Until I moved the balance control over to the left speaker. All mids and lows, but no highs. I removed the grill and confirmed my suspicion – the tweeter wasn’t working. I opened up the speaker and, woah, just a loose wire. The red wire wasn’t connected at all, so I connected it and waited for victory. But it didn’t come, still nothing out of the tweeter.
