Speaker repair-need help

Sorry about your loss.

I really doubt that you can get anything out of the power company. It is a fact of life that power goes off and back on from time to time, and electronic equipment that can't withstand this is arguably faulty. When you tell the court how many watts you have hooked up to these drivers it will be all over.

If you don't want this to happen again (power coming on again) what you need is a "latching relay" in your AC power...maybe just for the prepro. Or fuses in your speakers. Simple fix either way.

I guess i'll have to wait and see what happens with Commonwealth Edison. I've been pretty good at negotiating insurance claims in the past, but i've never dealt with them before.

Other than that, these speakers have fuses in them from the factory. A lot of good they did i.e. they are still intact. As far as the value goes, i can't recall what they are. I know that i've popped them in the past and replaced them with whatever was in there from the factory. I normally don't like fuses in the signal path, but with the lack of repairability on these drivers, i figured that i'd live with the sonic sacrifice. Then again, i've never had them hooked up to an amp that could deliver 2500+ wpc into them on demand either. Maybe that is a bit too much power for these speakers. Sean
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2500+ wpc (...) on demand (...) maybe ...is A BIT too much power for these speakers..

Sean: tsk, tsk, tsk (my emphasis).
I'm sorry for the resulting complications -- and I doubt you could have done s/thing in advance to avoid this (the fuses would hardly be fast enough to save the game) -- other than implementing the relay El mentioned. Good luck

Sean: I trust Bill implicitly. It sounds like such a major job that perhaps your best bet is to get a replacement pair. He clearly doesn't want to take on a project that involved and believe me he knows what a truly proper repair really is. He will do some major rehabs but if he says its simply too much - its simply too much. What did Ohm tell you-

Freeman-Tuell, 214-324-1132. in Dallas Well known among both home and pro audio folks. Give em' a call.