It went well and they sound much better than before. I’d previously thought the Nait was too weedy for them but there’s much more bass now so it would be fine. I will stick to a 32.5/160 or 12/BD160 though. They are super fast and it becomes a bit frenetic wth the Nait. I wonder if they were originally voiced for with a more lazy 250 but the 32.5/160 is still a good match.
I filled the original holes with ronseal as instructed and rubbed down:
Then stapled the new aluminium pads:
Next, laying down 6mm wide silicone:
Before finally locating the mid/bass unit on the spikes and re-forming the seal:
The only tricky part was when I found that one of the mid/bass units didn’t sit level on the spikes and rocked - it wasn’t the unit cos it was fine on the other base so must have been the spikes - probably only half a mm but it needed sorting. I had to sand down beneath one aluminium pad to get it to sit flat without rocking. This also explains why one of the splikes had completely pierced through one of the pads when I bought them.
Pretty amazing performance for 500 quid plus the cost of a kit. My dealer was saying he spoke to another dealer that has 4-5 pairs they can’t shift which I think is a great shame. Hopefully they’ll get re-homed eventually.