EV ZLX-12 vs Older SX300

[loudsubz]

Currently I have a pair of SX300 which sound great, but one of them needs a re-cone and at the same time I might as well do the other, so it will set me back around 220-250 for the pair to get them serviced. A local retailer is having a sale on ZLX-12 for $229 and was wondering if it would make more sense to go with the newer ZLX-12 or keep my SX300 and get them fixed?

 

I have never heard the SX300 so I'm not sure how it would compare. Is it a big step down compared to my current speakers?

[witesol]

My opinion would be to keep the SX300, which is a great workhorse cabinet, one of the best utility cabs out there, over the newer ZLX.  Your cabinets were $500-700 each...good stuff. i like the DH3 and the DH12 myself

[agedhorse]

C, the SX-300 uses the EVM or DL series LF driver which is a pretty robust driver. The only time a recone is needed is if it's been damaged or driven by too much power, especially without a HPF. Do you know what happened to the bad speaker?

I am pretty sure the ZLX uses a lower quality LF driver, but when I heard them they seemed to be a pretty goos sounding speaker (for it's class).

[witesol]

I'm pretty sure the SX300 will stomp the ZLX, those things are brutes

[loudsubz]

not sure what happened to them agedhorse, all I know was one of the surrounds had a small tear in it that I was able to fix with some rubber cement, but only as a temporary fix as I had planned to have them fixed properly.