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Yamaha NS2000 JA3301 Recone Results

Posted on by Cathy
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We Reconed this Unique 13″ Speaker with Aftermarket Recone Parts because Yamaha no longer stocks this recone kit. If you have this same woofer and need to refoam it rather than recone it, then use the RFK15 Angle foam, but cut and seam it to fit this smaller frame.

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Cathy

Cathy grew up in NY, moved to Florida in 1975 and graduated from the University of South Florida, with a degree in broadcasting. She and her husband Glenn started The Speaker Exchange in 1977. (Glenn later moved into Audio/Video sales and installations). In 1979, Cathy went to California for JBL speaker repair training and later received advanced training from Frank Spain, the then head of the Electro-Voice service department. She has continued to advance her audio education through many CES, NAMM, and CEDIA trade show classes.

5 thoughts on “Yamaha NS2000 JA3301 Recone Results”

  1. Tony Cliffe says:

    Hi Cathy,
    just googled “Yamaha NS2000” and came across your website. I read with interest that you can repair the bass drivers of these beasts and that replacement recones are no longer available.
    I reckon I must have got on of the last pair of recones on earth as a few years back I experienced the heart stopping moment of discovering the foam surround on my pair had perished, literally falling into holes as I touched them.
    I contacted Yamaha UK and explained to their service manager the problem. At first he thought I meant the 1000’s as he had never seen a pair of 2000’s. Well to cut a long story short, they spent the next 5 weeks scouring the world for a pair of recones, Japan, the US, Australia, Germany, France etc etc before finding success with the Swedish distributor. I got a local old boy, very experienced at this type of work, to fit them and they are now better than ever.
    Interestingly the new cones have a sort of neoprene impregnated cloth material in place of the foam which Yamaha tell me should last much longer.
    I bought them in 1984 and use them with my NS1000m’s (bought new in 1978) and have tried dozens of others with a view to updating them without finding better (at least to my ear).
    Didn’t want to bore you but thought you might be interested.
    Keep up the good work, regards Tony

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