Goodmans Floor Standing HiFi speakers- tweeter not working!

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Hey guys,

I recently acquired a pair of these and the tweeter in both is not working! I knew something was wrong straight away when they sounded muffled. I looked inside and everything is wired up properly! Strange! The tweeters look real too. There's a capacitor on the tweeter that says ELNA RBP2 50v. The woofers have something on them marked PX5W 2ΩJ. These, I would assume, separate out the freqs. I'm baffled as to why the tweeters produce no sound.

Any thoughts?

These are the ones:

Slaphead07

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Hey guys,

I recently acquired a pair of these and the tweeter in both is not working! I knew something was wrong straight away when they sounded muffled. I looked inside and everything is wired up properly! Strange! The tweeters look real too. There's a capacitor on the tweeter that says ELNA RBP2 50v. The woofers have something on them marked PX5W 2ΩJ. These, I would assume, separate out the freqs. I'm baffled as to why the tweeters produce no sound.

Any thoughts?

These are the ones:

are they bi-wirable by any chance? It sounds like (no pun intended there) that you only have a signal going to the woofers. If there are two sets of sockets on the rear of the speakers they should be joined - usually by a brass coupler. Anything like that still in the box?

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No no - turns out both tweeters were just blown! How weird is that? I replaced them with something temporary.

crosstownk

I blew a pair of tweeters in a set of Goodmans floor speakers by connecting the turntable without first attaching the ground wire. I bought a pair of decent quality, similar tweeters and fitted them.

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What size were the old ones and where did you get the replacements?

crosstownk

They were dome tweeters - about 100mm or less. The mounting plate was 100mm but obviously the tweeter dome was considerably smaller. I got the replacements from Peats but that was more than 10 years ago.

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Ah, back when Peat's really was the world of electronics, and not just computer and home theatre systems.

Kintarō Hattori

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Ah, back when Peat's really was the world of electronics, and not just computer and home theatre systems.

You've got to move with the market otherwise you go out of business.

Slaphead07

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Ah, back when Peat's really was the world of electronics, and not just computer and home theatre systems.

they still do a lot of 'parts' but you might have better luck getting a tweeter from Maplins, Radionics or d'internet.