i think its the techno is whats killing them

my buddy used to repair subwoffers.

When the voice coil would start to rip or bust through the paper cone in the center.

I know how he did it... i jus don't know how he did it if you catch my drift... i guess it was his love for music?

He would use construction RTV, he tried the blue kind but ended up using the black kind because it was more rigid when it was fully set up

for suspension he found that a ploy/cotton carhart work shirt had the best material. he used the sleeves because he cut off the sleeves any ways.

Anyways he would cut the fabric into strips and coat the fabric with that black rtv on both sides, he would apply it over lapping onto the cone and the neighboring suspension, if it was just repair, then kind of form the fabric with his finger So it looked and took the same form as the neighboring suspension, then he would let it sit over night.

Because it was just BASS, you really couldn't tell, other then it sounded way better then it did before he fixed it.

I do know the spots with the RTV were less flexible when he switched to black from blue. but the black held together.

mind you this was 18 years ago... DAMMM wow... head hurts.. realization i am getting old... :-(