I've just become the owner (to my wife's displeasure due to their size!) of a pair of teak Beovox 3800 speakers. I'm planning to give them some TLC and thought I'd document my adventures in case anyone's interested or can offer any advice if I come unstuck! 😁

I did as much research on them as I could before taking the leap and was interested by the fact they were a UK only product and the tax-related story behind it. I read through Snoopy / Peter's listening comparison here and so thought that for a few quid I couldn't go wrong!

I've restored a pair of 2702s previously - replacing the surrounds and capacitors and these are now connected to my non-B&O AV amp and sound and look great. Being a designer myself (and the son of an engineer) the look and thinking behind Bang and Olufsen products is what attracted me to them as well as the build quality and performance.

I know it's heresy but I don't really like the design of the later uni-phase speakers such as the MS150 and the like 😉 even though they are by all accounts much better speakers 😁

My 2702s (BTW can you tell I like single malt whisky 😎 )

Anyway here are the beauties that I picked up this weekend

The magnetic frets are much easier to remove than the glued 2702s!

The separated black cone coating 😮

I've given them a once-over clean but nothing more than that so far!

I hooked them up to my Beolab 5000 and Beogram 1202 and they seem to work adequately in their current state but I'm planning to re-cap them and cosmetically give them a good seeing to.

Now here's a question for anyone that can answer - I know the Goodman's 12" driver doesn't have a foam surround but a plasticised coating (it's more like a thick sticky black cling film!!) but on both of my woofers it appears to have separated from the cone itself in the centre (see my pics) and the dust caps have come free. What's the best way to deal with this just reglue the dust caps? It doesn't appear to be affecting the sound (or maybe I can't tell?). It's fairly taught and I don't want to jigger anything up by doing anything I don't need to.