Apparantly the stupid dealer doesn't have JBL 2235H recones anymore, so thats pretty annoying. Considering that a month ago they had them but not anymore! He said he has to talk with his dealer in Asia or something.

That brings me to another point - how good are these aftermarket/non genuine JBL recones? I read a very interesting and somewhat funny thread on the High Efficinecy forum regarding chinese recones, and apparantly there was a mixed response. Some said they were fine, others said they were cheap, and I think that included Wayne too! Are these chinese recones "crap"?

I was notified that although I can recone a 2225 basket to a 2235, a person on high eff forum said that the real 2235 basket has whats called a "mass loading ring" or something that accounts for 33% of its cone mass. I found this rather weird cuz the basket isn't the cone and only the cone makes the cone mass - duh :P But I dont know what JBL's done. Can anyone comment on this? Will the cone mass be ~33% lighter thus higher Fs, eff, etc if I recone the 2225 basket to a 2235?

Today I came accross another deal. A pair of ORIGINAL JBL 2225H's in perfect condition. 600 bux australian dollars the pair. Very good price actually. If I reconed the baskets with chinese 2225 recones it would cost 30 bux more. So the originals would be the way to go in this case. If I reconed with the 2235 recones which are actually the ones I wanted (but may not be able to get ANYMORE) it would cost more, but it would be the one I wanted. It would also be a chinese recone though so it might be crap.

I wonder which is the best way to go! The 2225's will work just the same for my application anyway, but they wont go 40Hz -3db point, only 65Hz. But at least they are original and not chinese, and also I have a sub anyway. How bad are the chinese recones? Also, whats the mass loading ring thing and will be T/S parameters be shifted if I put a 2235 recone in a 2225 basket which has no mass loading ring?

Thanks for any help whatsoever! I think I'm gonna just give up speakers and start a stamp collection or something, this stuff has got my brain racing at ten thousand kilmeters per hour since I started this idea. So if you dont wanna see me start a stamp collection, then please give me some help, otherwise I'll be posting pictures of stamps on this forum and not speakers, haha.

Adrian