Wes Reiley, Owner and Chief Tech of Texasound. Recognized as a world renowned loudspeaker expert Wes
Reiley built his first speakers when still a teenager back in
the seventies. He went on from there to build and operate large
speaker systems for live music concerts. Wes has worked as a
sound engineer, recording engineer, and is a co designer of the ASW
guitar speaker designed, and built here in Austin.
As
a speaker repair tech Wes was a warranty service station for all the
major American loud speaker manufactures including JBL, Infinity,
Bose, Cerwin-Vega, Electro-Voice, Altec-Lansing, and many others. Wes
has designed, built and repaired thousands of speakers. His level of
experience and the quality of his workmanship is unique in central
Texas.
Sever Reiley, Business Partner and Co-Owner of Texasound. Experienced Tech. Additionally, handles all website and other internet needs of the service.
We are also long time friends and associates with Mike Manulik of Austin Stereo Service. We share a philosophy of competency, attention to detail,
and high value service for our customers.
We spend most of our time restoring vintage speakers for home, studio, and professional use. We restore a lot of JBL's. The L-Series the 4300 and 4400 series studio monitors. The L-Series JBL's are still very popular and when properly restored sound as good or better than speakers sold now that cost many thousands of dollars. Vintage speakers sound more musical because they were designed by engineering firms that specialized in speaker design with an ear towards musical results. Today's speakers are developed by corporations using software and judged using those same developmental algorithms.
We are now seeing age related issues that were not a problem some years go. Timed out crossover components like capacitors, L-Pads, protect circuits, and tweeters with dried out Ferrofluid. Some of the connectors used in vintage speakers are substandard and need replacement. We restore many brands other than JBL and Altec see our brand section or call/email us for more information. Our clients restore their vintage speakers because they love the sound and want to listen to them for many decades to come.
