30 years old tweeters ferrofluid change it or not?

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karkpa (archived2)
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Posted January 13, 2015 at 07:49 GMT
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Is there any acoustic gains of replacing the ferrofluid to old tweeters? I have pair of

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Davefarr
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Posted January 13, 2015 at 11:31 GMT
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Only if you think there is a problem with the sound from your speakers - not related to anything else like crossovers needing new capacitors etc.

There are many speakers over 30 years old still going strong with their original ferrofluid.  Unless it's excessively dried out, you should have no problems.  This thread discussed it a few years ago:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-398491.html

And an article about use of ferrofluids for those who want to learn a bit more about it:

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