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OUCH My Dynaudio's have crashed....

After years of building and tweaking my system to my own sonic orgasmatron, my speakers have gone kablooey. The Dynaudio 2.8's are perfect for my room size, my and my wife's ears, and a beautiful match for all my gear. It seems the crossovers or the voice coils got damaged in a series of accidental out of sequence turning off/on of my tube pre and ss amp....dc voltage can do some serious damage.

My system is pretty dialed in to our liking at this point, so I am send them in to Dynaudio USA for a once over and repair estimate, but my fear is peaking the expense of their repair will be way beyond their worth....What should I think of replacing them with?!

My system is detailed here on a-gon:
http://cgim.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/vs_user.pl?vdone&1055589103&viewmine&publ

My room is an untreated 14x16 ft. space with 9 foot ceilings in a turn of the century (last century!) victorian. I listen to alernative rock and alt country, jazz, acoustic, classic rock, reggae, etc. no metal, electronica, classical. (Just saw Neko Case at the Egg in Albany and am convinced she was abducted by aliens and infused with a voice to hypnotize earthlings... but i digress...)

The speakers need to be comfortable pretty close to the back wall...2 feet or so. The Dynaudio 2.8's are a closed box passive woofer system....pretty nice for that application..

Maybe some Special 25's and a sub? I love the sound and look of Sonus, but I fear they're not so great match with my gear...and they need to be out in the room. Harbeth? Man oh man. Any suggestions are appreciated. And, any place in the NY/CT/MA area to listen to suggestion would also be great. About 5k on the used market is my absolute limit for expense...

Thanks for you help!
budburma
budburma OP
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JJJJOHN! Caps with VH-caps? VenHaus-caps? What a great idea! I don't know if Steve would be into it, but I'll have to check! He says he doesn't do mods, though....

Digsmithd-Dynaudio did say that it would take a month or so to get the crossovers from Denmark...I don't baby my stuff too much, but would certainly hope for good workmanship.
--Totem forests? they were on my list at one time. Do you mean the Acoustic zen Adagios? never put much thought towrds them, but i defintely take a working musician's word seriously.

Good points about the rear ports. I just got a pair of triangle cometes for my bedroom for that reason....front ported.

My muaic has been slowly toning down over tyears....not so much dinosaur junior anymore while the be good tanyas and iron and wine seem to find their way to the platter more and more often. wilco, uncle tupelo, whiskeytown and steve earle are persistent and perrenial.....
budburma OP
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ITball-ok, you're right on spot.....only the modern equivalent is too big for my wife's liking at close to 5 feet tall....and i believe they are all rear ported without the palcement benefit of the portless passive diaphragm arrangement on the 2.8's.
budburma OP
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WOW-Someone erased my entire virtual system. That is almost damn discouraging and disillusioning. My bad interactions here have been exceedingly minimal, but i guess there is always someone trying to ruin everyone else's good will. NO GO HOMBRE! I still love it here on a-gon and can always re-enter it. So, to you, piss off. go fill your pablum bottle, take a long drink and dream of growing up.
budburma OP
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so there it is, my system is back up...no worries, no problems.
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