jackrcox Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hello All, I just wanted to share my experience on dealing with cabinet separation on a pair of Heresy IIs that I had purchased. After purchasing the speakers and getting them home, I had realized that one of the speakers had seam separation on the top right and lower left sections of the cabinet which I believe was caused by being droped during shipping. Since this was resulting in an unsealed cabinet and the possible loss of some of the low end of the speaker, I decided to see what I could do to correct this and possibly make them more sturdy in the process. My first step was to remove the woofer of the speaker and see how these things were built. As you can see by the photo below, these speakers are held together by a small rectangular wooden brace and "squirted" with a fair amount of wood glue to keep the corners together. This piece is what had become slightly detached from the cabinet wall and my focus turned to how best to approach this. After careful consideration, I elected to replace a few of the wood braces with new pieces and use a combination of careful use of screws and strong wood glue to support the cabinet. My hope is that the addition of the screws would be better able to support the cabinet and better hold the integrity of the seal together over time. This was done to the other speaker in order to match any slight variation on acoustics that this could have caused on the one, although I could not tell A/B after doing just the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackrcox Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 Overall I am very happy with the results. My hope of posting this is that if anyone else is having this issue they are better able to find a way of resolving it before approaching it blindly. Thanks, Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlthess40 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Good jobMost people would have freaked out about that. I’ve seen it many times in the H’2sI’ve owned maybe 6 sets and each set was not sealed very well. My H’1’s have never had this problem This weekend I am picking up a set of H2’s in oak, I’ll be sure to check that out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I took mine, spread them as far as possible apart, squirted wood glue in the seam and clamped them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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