These are the AR's I bought from the gentleman I met with the amazing audio collection.
The cabs are in great shape, the grills were replaced with black fabric, which I'll change back to AR cloth, or try to find some original grills for this model. When I tested them, only sound from the woofers. The pots did nothing.
I started on the first speaker, pulled the woofer, and oops!, someone has been here already. They did a lousy re-cap job, and the caps aren't even close! Man, I hate sloppy work like this. They put in 2-4.7uf's and a 2.2uf. It should have one 4uf, one 6uf. You guys think these caps could have done any damage to the mids, or tweeter? I assume the other speaker is the same. I plan on ordering caps anyway for these and a pair of KLH Twenty Threes. I have my shopping cart ready with PE to order.
The woofer measured 5.9 ohms on the meter.
The woofer surround needs re-sealing. When I held it to a light, I could see it's porous.
I'm also worried about the tweeter. The dome has lifted some. I have to get some Aileens Tacky glue and see if I can get this glued back down.
I'll pull the pots and see what kind of shape these are in.
Anyone have pics of an unmolested interior, as well as one recapped.
Here's a few pics of what I found.
Glenn
The tweeter.
The cabs are in great shape, the grills were replaced with black fabric, which I'll change back to AR cloth, or try to find some original grills for this model. When I tested them, only sound from the woofers. The pots did nothing.
I started on the first speaker, pulled the woofer, and oops!, someone has been here already. They did a lousy re-cap job, and the caps aren't even close! Man, I hate sloppy work like this. They put in 2-4.7uf's and a 2.2uf. It should have one 4uf, one 6uf. You guys think these caps could have done any damage to the mids, or tweeter? I assume the other speaker is the same. I plan on ordering caps anyway for these and a pair of KLH Twenty Threes. I have my shopping cart ready with PE to order.
The woofer measured 5.9 ohms on the meter.
The woofer surround needs re-sealing. When I held it to a light, I could see it's porous.
I'm also worried about the tweeter. The dome has lifted some. I have to get some Aileens Tacky glue and see if I can get this glued back down.
I'll pull the pots and see what kind of shape these are in.
Anyone have pics of an unmolested interior, as well as one recapped.
Here's a few pics of what I found.
Glenn
The tweeter.