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    Posted: 18 October 2017 at 9:07pm
Hey, I was wandering if anyones fitted replacement drivers in Martin audio EM56 ? blew the voice coil on a couple and am looking for an affordable replacement while maintaining or improving on the sound. 
If not, anyone tried reconing them and how did that go?
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Don't think the drivers were anything special.

How much do you want to spend and which speaker brands can you buy easily/good deals?
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was looking at the stock on bluearan and leanbusiness, found some fanes that looked alright but to be honest im pretty new to the game so open to suggestions. 

ive got 4 to replace so was looking to buy all as a bundle to get a bit of discount but generally looking to get all 4 for around 250 or so   
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Probably a good idea to have a chat with the guys at Bluearan.

Measure the existing cut-out because what you don't want to do is choose a new driver that requires one a couple of mm bigger, that would be annoying!

If you're on a budget and not looking for anything too special, might be worth considering the P.Audio E10-200S.  Otherwise it's Fane Sovereign or if they fit the Sovereign Pro.

You're not going to get into the range of the bigger brands until you're spending closer to £100/driver.  P.Audio stuff is generally pretty good on the value for money stakes.


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I would try the P audio drivers. I have use quite a few and have been impressed with them for the money.
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generally Martin Audio use B&C specially in the wavefront series 


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Cheers for all the help think im gonna go with the sovereigns as theyre back in stock and can get a pack of 4 for 265 
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the original drivers look very similar to the Celestion TF1020. these are £55.00 from lean-business
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you could always just send the drivers to rmj and get them reconed
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unless you have an undamaged driver and want to measure the T/S parameters to find a modern equivalent, just get them reconed. otherwise you may need to start adjusting the crossover to get the same response. I guess the orginal drivers were RCF but don't know if they were a standard model or OEM.
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Originally posted by brokenjoe brokenjoe wrote:

generally Martin Audio use B&C specially in the wavefront series 



Martin use B & C, Celestion, 18 sound,  Clare, RCF and also stuff from the French company who's name for some reason eludes me.
I believe the EM series used a mix of Celestion and RCF.
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Originally posted by APW APW wrote:

the original drivers look very similar to the Celestion TF1020. these are £55.00 from lean-business

That's the one, you can buy them in maplins too

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