The Spendor Thread..

Still finding my way around AK site, just found this Spendor thread. Thought I'd share pics of my BCII's! Best speakers I've yet to own...

Does anyone have a spare Spendor speaker badge like the one pictured?
 

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I just scored 2 yes 2 sets of spendor speakers! 1 set of SP-2s, and 1 set of DC-1s
The DC-1s have rough cabs and 1 missing badge, but play extremely well!(all drivers work)
The SP-2s are also in rough shape, both tweeters don't work, measured with OM and nothing!
What are the appropriate replacements? they have Scan Speak D 2008 tweets with a green dot for code.
Are these original? Can they be fixed? they seem to be press sealed..
Oh and the serials are LOW! 000345, 000346
I'm splitting this deal with a friend who doesn't know i drove 4 hrs yesterday to get them yet!
Not sure which to keep, or fix em both sell em and split the $$
 

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Nice Spendor score @VINTAGEO ! I have a pair of SP/2's that look identical to yours and I love them. They are definite keepers having easily beat out ADS L710's, KLH 23, and Dynaco A25's. I do think it's time to recap them however as one speaker is a bit quieter than the other. I haven't opened mine up yet - can you see what the values are on the 3 (or is it 4?) caps?
 
20170329_091107.jpg 20170329_091126.jpg 20170329_091133.jpg I haven't looked at caps yet, still debating on sinking 200+$ on tweets, only thing that sucks living in Canada! Lol
Do you k ow what the little grey metal things are in middle of woofer?I'm missing one
 
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Do you k ow what the little grey metal things are in middle of woofer?I'm missing one

I assume that's the main magnet pole piece for the woofer, although I think it would be strange to have two or more separate pieces stuck together to make one pole - did you pull the cone back on the "good" woofer and see two pieces? Maybe the metal pole on the "bad" woofer somehow shifted or had sunk backward and needs to be moved back so it matches the "good" woofer?
 
I assume that's the main magnet pole piece for the woofer, although I think it would be strange to have two or more separate pieces stuck together to make one pole - did you pull the cone back on the "good" woofer and see two pieces? Maybe the metal pole on the "bad" woofer somehow shifted or had sunk backward and needs to be moved back so it matches the "good" woofer?

not that strange. Often in these smaller cabinets, manufacturers would add alum plugs to help with heat dissipation. One of the largest ones I have seen was used on the Naim SBL.

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Do you k ow what the little grey metal things are in middle of woofer?I'm missing one


Those tweeters look exactly the same as the ones used on the Dahlquist DQ-10. 4 ohm Philips, if I recall. Can be replaced with almost any 4 ohm dome tweeter. The Fs is not that low and the dispersion lens won't really affect driver integration.

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not that strange. Often in these smaller cabinets, manufacturers would add alum plugs to help with heat dissipation. One of the largest ones I have seen was used on the Naim SBL.

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Ah ok, I'd never seen that before - maybe it's a British thing! :)

Well if you're missing that piece then I'd say the chances of finding just the replacement piece are slim - looks like you'd need to replace the whole woofer.
 
Ah ok, I'd never seen that before - maybe it's a British thing! :)

Well if you're missing that piece then I'd say the chances of finding just the replacement piece are slim - looks like you'd need to replace the whole woofer.


Good luck finding a woofer. the alum plug might change the magnetic flux by effecting the length of the pole piece, but it also might not. @VINTAGEO says the two woofers sound different, but I doubt this missing piece is the cause of that.
 
Those tweeters look exactly the same as the ones used on the Dahlquist DQ-10. 4 ohm Philips, if I recall. Can be replaced with almost any 4 ohm dome tweeter. The Fs is not that low and the dispersion lens won't really affect driver integration.

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That is a DQ10 tweet, was just trying it out. it is 4 ohm, I need 8 Ohms
 
Ah ok, I'd never seen that before - maybe it's a British thing! :)

Well if you're missing that piece then I'd say the chances of finding just the replacement piece are slim - looks like you'd need to replace the whole woofer.
I think chances of that are almost as slim! lol
 
20170513_230753.jpg I was able to make the piece that was missing, which turns out to be a phase plug. Apparently it helps reduce certain frequencies from crossing paths from what I can understand. A lot of speakers use several different types of these.
I made 2 new ones since making one to match the gray plastic one that was there would be very difficult.
Besides I think mine look cooler, and they are held in place by the magnets using screws in the wooden dowel I used to make them. A little stain and voila! works perfectly and these sound amazing! Oh and I did get the tweeters from Solen, exact match Scan Speak D 2008.. :)20170513_225809.jpg 20170513_225822.jpg
 
View attachment 929611 I was able to make the piece that was missing, which turns out to be a phase plug. Apparently it helps reduce certain frequencies from crossing paths from what I can understand. A lot of speakers use several different types of these.
I made 2 new ones since making one to match the gray plastic one that was there would be very difficult.
Besides I think mine look cooler, and they are held in place by the magnets using screws in the wooden dowel I used to make them. A little stain and voila! works perfectly and these sound amazing! Oh and I did get the tweeters from Solen, exact match Scan Speak D 2008.. :)View attachment 929593 View attachment 929594

Attaboy!
 
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