Green Mountain Audio


I picked up a set of Diamante's for cheap. They have trashed foam surrounds but otherwise seem fine. I plan on veneering the "marble" with a beautiful teak or rosewood- I haven't decided.The angles will look pretty cool with the right veneer. The marble is not so cool but rigid and heavy. 

Curious if some upgraded drivers would improve the sound- as apposed to re-foaming. I realize this is a shot in the dark but my understanding is Roy from GMA has passed so not sure where to get driver advice. Open to any and all suggestions.

ovinewar1

A local dealer has drivers re-foamed all the time.  He has a tech that can do it, but, it takes the tech hours to do a pair, while the place they use charges $50 to do the job.  The commercial operations can even do extremely delicate work, like replacing the surround on Lowther drivers, some can re-cone and replace spiders.

My speakers use all scanspeak drivers.  It is really quite a blessing to be able to buy them off the shelf from Madisound when needed.

I’ll mention that while the main speaker ID numbers remain the same, scanspeak will sometimes add a suffix that will indicate the latest iteration of the driver.

The mid woofers I have purchased over many years have a different suffix that has changed a couple of times over the years and indicate there are slight changes in the manufacture of the woofer.  As an example, the latest I purchased have a slightly larger surround than the previous. I believe all the speaker sound characteristics remain constant, I don’t notice a difference in their sound profile.

Here's a link to (OEM?) woofer surrounds in case you decide to repair them yourself.

The price includes VAT, so they should be less expensive if shipped to the states.

https://www.repairyourspeakers.com/en/foam-rubber-surrounds/scanspeak/scanspeak-21w-8552-woofer-1x-genuine-surround-for-repair/a-1810-10000035

DeKay

Dekay, I saw that link as well. I have the drivers pulled and awaiting some feedback from Madisound. ScanSpeak was quick to respond but not much help. My wife is gagging over the look of these things :-0

I appreciate everyone's input thus far. Truly helpful and welcome.