First type x purchase went terrible

[Shoelil]

Bought an xw10d4 and at least one coil is smoked so I'm trying to find a recone kit but can't and honestly don't even know how to do it! I always heard good things about x's but looking at it it doesn't seem that great! Spiders look like trash, the basket not great... There's gotta b someone who can rebuild/recone this thing??? "Help me"

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[1aespinoza 10+ year member]

Bought an xw10d4 and at least one coil is smoked so I'm trying to find a recone kit but can't and honestly don't even know how to do it! I always heard good things about x's but looking at it it doesn't seem that great! Spiders look like trash, the basket not great... There's gotta b someone who can rebuild/recone this thing??? "Help me"

TBH it might be more economical to buy a working sub. Reading that other thread shows that Alpine made the sub difficult to work on. If that experienced rebuilder only salvages the motor then try selling it to re-coup something.

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

Throw-away subwoofer.

 

[Deiimos]

Probably an okay performing sub for what it was, but blown, just salvage the magnet to use as a screw holder, lol. Or bolt it to a garage wall with the magnet sticking out to stick stuff to.

If you like to tinker and have tools, could perhaps modify the motor top plate to accept more common basket, or maybe make a custom vented spacer to adapt bolt patterns to said common basket and make a custom sub out of it. But if you don’t know how to do that stuff it is likely a throw-away as was already said.

Making a drop in cone for the stock basket may be near impossible to not worth the effort / money. I try to aim for subs that the motor is worth future rebuilding. Other option is to dissect very carefully to just cut out the fried voice coil and glue in a new one, if you can find one that fits, but this is not simple and a lot can go wrong. I’ve done it when salvaging cones / parts from old subs to make a frankensub out of old parts, but takes some experience messing with this kind of stuff for years. Most of this is a waste of time unless you like to tinker with stuff, and even then a lot of subs are throw-aways. It’s great to fantasize “if only I could get this sub working for cheap”, but sadly parts cost adds up fast and very easy to mess up gluing in even a drop in cone kit. I wouldn't bother trying to recone it.

 

[Doxquzme Premium Member]

That thing is a pretty good sounding sub, while it is working. It's a royal PITA to work on. Chances are, if you could find the replacement cone, it would likely still not work quite right when done.

I've not got first hand experience with it, but a friend of mine has. He was able to salvage a new driver's cone where the basket was damaged in shipping, causing the magnet alignment to shift slightly, enough to be a problem but not enough to damage the coil so insurance covered it.

He blew one driver later on, having kept the damaged cone from the original one in case as would be the case, he blew one. but he said it was not easy and if he'd had to pay, would never do it again.

Too many really good subs on the market that exceed it's performance anymore. So,unless you're are trying to match another in a set, for the price of those new, you could get a nice Si SQL 12 or a pair of NVX VC series 12" subs.