My First "Modification"

[petergriffin]

The left woofer on my HK9000z blew, so I had to replace them. Had some old woofers from my JVC "giga-tube" stereo. They were an exact fit
The bass is just amazing. You can actually feel the bass in your gut

 

[Master Z]

Looks cool! Did you sacrifice any midrange or highs with them? What size are they btw?

 

[petergriffin]

They are 16cm. I found the highs with the stock tweeters were very good, so I didn't touch them. Even with the new woofers(sub-woofers actually), the bass doesn't overpower the sound. The best part, I can turn it almost full blast with no distortion

 

[Superduper]

I like the look of those. Do they require more power to drive them, or same as original?

 

[Fatdog]

Nice mod, PG. Are those woofers really aluminum cone or just silver poly?

 

[oldskool69]

Those woofs are a faaaaaaaaaar improvement over the originals. If I had kept mine I would have dumped them as well because the HK had way more power than the speakers could handle.

Nice!

 

[petergriffin]

They were 4ohm, same as the factory, so the load is the same. I don't think there aluminum, guess silver poly? The magnet was about 4 times bigger on these then the factory. It really does "thump" now

 

[Old school Scott]

Well that plan came together nicely didn't it?
They look even better than the originals.
I have a shelf of speakers standing by.
one of these days I'm going to find a box thats needs a switch out and i will pic the perfect fit.

Cheers OSS

 

[Jovie]

That looks amazing also! Can you give the details of what you needed to do to make them fit?

 

[petergriffin]

Hey Jovie, they were an exact fit. The holes for the screws matched up perfectly. The ohm load was the same. The only thing I had to do was soldier the speakers connections. If your going to try this, make sure to take off the grill to reach the screws. I accidently pulled the entire front part off, what a nightmare :'-(

 

[gld1307]

Nice one Peter!

It would be nice to keep things original but once you hear the sound from a modification there's no turning back. It must be really sick because I found the three piecers to be generally a lot louder than the single piecers.

 

[petergriffin]

made this video with my canon sd780is. You can hear the bass, most of which is from the HK9000z.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkXVxRdpoY4

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Those do look really great in there. It ad's a modern touch to the 80's/90's flare. Good deal

Awesome you got such a great sound improvment