mikkmuzik Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Hi All, I dont post much on here, but I do need advice on my Hisys 4....I need a replacement basket on the 'mid'...do I go for another peavey..expensive or repack both with lesser makes, and which make if so?..Many Thanks in advance. Mikk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GR1 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Hi Mikk, The question is impossible to answer.If you replace with original drivers you will retain the performance you presumably bought the speakers for. If you install different drivers you will get a different performance. It may be better or worse but will almost certainly be different. Only you can decide whether or how much that matters to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Cabinets are designed with the parameters of a particular driver in mind. If you change the driver, the performance will be different and almost certainly worse. There's a lot more to speaker design than just bolting a random driver in to a box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkPAman Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Can you find two drivers for less money that a Peavey basket? I've always thought they were quite reasonably priced, though it's some time since I was running Peavey systems, so it may be different now. Always liked the fact that our entire FOH rig & monitors used only one type of compression driver & only 3 different baskets, so a couple of each type of basket lived under the seats in the van. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttytechy Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Hey Mikk. I have owned several Peaveys over the years for being a DJ and I always replace my drivers etc with Peavey stuff. I own at the moment some Hisys 3s and I noticed that one of the cabinets was sounding terrible. I opened the cabinet up and found there was a different driver. The guy on ebay had said that he did change it but not with an original peavey driver. I personally go with speaker baskets or drivers designed for a brand because of the wattages, HZ etc then I know that there will not be any difference to the sound output from one speaker to the another. Lastly I am a Peavey HiSys fanboy ** laughs out loud ** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Fit the right drivers if you want it to sound right. Fit the right drivers if you want it to survive it's rated power. A friend had some supposedly 400w speakers but after a change of driver they failed at about 50w -all simply due to the wrong driver having the wrong resonant frequency to match the reflex port, so the resonance of the driver didnt happen where the design said it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikkmuzik Posted June 16, 2018 Author Share Posted June 16, 2018 Thanks for the help and info...Peavey it is then.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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