Album Rating: 4.5
nice dude, my username on discogs is hpm60. the hpm 100s are (were) super popular in southern california region so you could find them pretty often at like garage sells and shit, maybe not so much in the post internet age where everyone knows the value of niche shit, but yeah they still float around. i had hpm 60s for a long time and paid only $90 for them iirc. never heard or seen hpm m900s though !!
did you have to refoam them i'm guessing? pretty awkward process huh
i currently have focal aria 906's and i prefer them for vocal work but they just do not have the rumble of the hpm 60's and they don't move that same amount of air. it's really something else having big floorstanders with huge woofers, really sad that most people consume music with desktop speakers with tiny woofers or fuckin laptop speakers and earbuds agh
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Album Rating: 4.5
https://imgur.com/a/B4QlIRN here's an old photo of them and bonus shot of a spread of vinyl
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Album Rating: 4.0
"did you have to refoam them i'm guessing? pretty awkward process huh"
I have no idea, these stereos had been sitting and collecting dust for like 20-30 years hahaha
I did some restoration, the woofers were in awful state, I took them to an engineer and he fixed them anew. I went to his shop and he played some music, I almost wet my pants! And after that I had to clean them using fiber cloth. I don't know if the stereos need re-foaming though, any advice would be indeed very much welcomed!
"never heard or seen hpm m900s though !!"
A shame that I don't have a picture to show to you, had I known I would definitely get some for you. Whenever I am near that rig again, I will take some photos for you!
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Album Rating: 4.0
that's fucking amazing, i wish I had too a picture to share, but I'll get one as soon as i am able to
"really sad that most people consume music with desktop speakers with tiny woofers or fuckin laptop speakers and earbuds agh"
younger generations don't know the magic of the old lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
take a look at the circular "bump" of rubber that sits between the actual speaker cones themselves and the housing they fit in, in the 70's a lot of cabinets were produced using foam surrounds which sort of "decompose" after 10 or 20 years, so maintenance requires cutting it out and cleaning it up so you can paste and seat in some new surrounds. but if you brought the speaker cabinets to a professional i'm sure he replaced the surrounds if they needed it. these older speaker cabinets have super heavy magnets so if the surrounds are corroded then the voice coil and be dislodged and that basically kills the speaker so it's something to be aware of. pretty sure post 70's engineers just switched to different synthetic polymer designs that don't corrode so easily
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Album Rating: 4.0
that is amazing info, thank you so much, I will keep that in mind
the engineer only repaired the woofers (which I unscrewed and took them to him), I couldn't bring the entire cabinets to his place as parking in Athens down town is a fucking nightmare lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
damn ghost-negging...
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Album Rating: 4.5
oh he got the foams still in that case if you unscrewed the housing of the woofers and brought that entire apparatus to him
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don't know, I remember seeing only dust when I was unscrewing them woofers....
But if these devices need to be re-foamed I will gladly do so. As I am willing to do whatever overhauls necessary to restore those stereos. I am changing the...decoration of my room in my house and I am planning to use it as a place for storing all my musical equipment. I will also arrange to decorate the walls with some swords hahaha, it will look epic!
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who dares neg this review
ghost-negging kinda baffles me
'cause you know, as a beginner reviewer I could use some proper critique
instead of "0 out of 1" or whatever it is now
seriously tho, who dares neg this review
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Album Rating: 4.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcO2UxJg0I here's a guy refoaming hpm 700s so you can kind of visualize what i've been talking about. it's a delicate process and the parts can be hard to find. but refoaming is like something you worry about once every 20 or 30 years so i think you're good for a while lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
"who dares neg this review
ghost-negging kinda baffles me"
I don't mind someone negging a review, it's a trivial matter. But I do find it hilarious that a user will get into the trouble of negging a text just so, without any reason whatsoever...
@budgie
Amazing video, thanks for sharing.
At first, I didn't understand what "re-foaming" means, I thought it means "replacing the rubbery (kinda like foam) material that resides inside the speakers." The re-foaming process is something which I have done already (the reason I took the woofers to an engineer). The engineer also had to replace the broken papery cones, these were completely gone. The woofers now seem like new! 🤌
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Album Rating: 4.5
ahhhh you should at some point open the cabinet up and see what speakers he installed
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Album Rating: 4.0
it's the same speakers as before, only they've been re-foamed
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Album Rating: 4.5
bro im so confused
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Album Rating: 4.0
why? 😅
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Album Rating: 4.0
allow me to recap
1) I removed the woofers from the speakers
2) I took the woofers to an engineer for re-foaming (just the woofers, I didn't move the speakers from my place)
3) I received the woofers (which now look good as new) and screw them back to the speakers
4) I cleaned up my speakers (removed dirt, dust, etc)
That's it!
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Album Rating: 4.0
Look who is contrib now
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Album Rating: 4.0
Haha many thanks Sow!
This time I will try to contribute more!
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