Stereo Speaker Tribulations

[auld argonian]

These guys are Advent 5002's. Having pulled the woofs to get an idea of the work needed to do the refoam, it's pretty apparent that the cabinets are a composition material with a wood veneer over it. If you think about it, it makes much more sense...the composition material is very dense and makes a really heavy cabinet. These are a sealed cabinet as well...no venting.

With respect to their collectibility...they're worth more to me as practical speakers right now. I have refinished a thing or two in my time and have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing. Cleaning them with turpentine is the only practical way to get this gunk off and it's a very good quality artists' turpentine, not the cheap stuff from the home improvement center. It really isn't even as if they need to be refinished, just cleaned.

There's a set of Allison CD speakers down in the basement right now that succumbed to the same malady (rotten foam) about two years ago so I'm just going to order the refoam kit for them as well. Those guys were my absolute favorites and when they're back up they're going to get a present: a sub woofer to help them deal with some of the very, very low end stuff.

I guess that I just will never get over that 70's stereo system thing...decent sized speakers and actual components...it just sounds right somehow...

Best

AA

[SteveB]

AR-7s fan here. Have had fun with them since I built a nice interface from the wimpy computer audio system to my Fisher amps. The input network to my system looks like an explosion in a spaghetti factory.

Light emitting Hollow state devices rule. (A.K.A. tubes)

Slainte

[fluter]

I guess that I just will never get over that 70's stereo system thing...decent sized speakers and actual components...it just sounds right somehow...

I know what you mean. When I was in college, I fell in love with the spec sheet of the Crown pre-amp. Could not think about affording it at the time, but thanks to the brotherhood of Ebay gearheads, I now have two.