Recently, I found these Beovox 2500 cube speakers for sale which were not in a good shape. As you can see from the photographs, they were sprayed silver for some unknown reason. Not only that, but it wasn't done very well. The person clearly did not even remove the grills before spraying and so the drivers were covered in this heavy silver paint. You can see this in the pictures below:
So I removed each grill, sanded the old paint off carefully and proceeded to poke through each individual hole on the grills. Many of these were filled with paint and heavy glue by the previous owner so this took a lot of time as you can imagine! Next, once all of the grills were sorted and looking good I prepared the units for painting. I sanded down each cube gently until I had a really smooth finish. Luckily, the bodies of these were in really good condition with minimal chips and damage to the wood. I thought long and hard about removing the drivers completely at this stage as I'm sure many of you would have done, but I decided to cover them properly instead.
Next, I found a suitable paint, which wasn't too easy actually. It had to be as close to the original as possible, so a kind of dark grey (not black) with a sligh blue tinge. I think I came pretty close to the original, and after about 4 coats I was really pleased with the result!
As you can see, I need to replace the wiring, as these were butchered off by a previous owner sadly. God knows why!
I am also missing the small B&O decals on each tweeter, but I am hoping to have some of these made up at a later date. I polished the stands and both cubes were looking great. They also work well with Beovox 5000s, which is the main thing, adding something nice to the overall sound.
Overall though, pretty pleased with the results!
Ben.
