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[DaberAudio]

Refoaming the woofer should not be a big deal. If you don't feel comfortable doing it, you could send them to me, or perhaps check if there are any reputable repair shops in your local area that you could take them to. Now, that Passive seems completely roached. However, it's not necessarily that big of a problem. There are a lot of passives out there that you could buy. The difficult thing is that there is probably very little, if any, information out there that will tell you what the moving mass and compliance of that passive was. The most precise way to do it without any factory information would be to run the woofer (after the recone) on a WT3 or LEAP if you know anyone who has one. From there, figure out what the airspace of the cabinet is. From that point, play around and model the enclosure using different passives/weight configurations. Once you get the desired response curve you'll know what to buy and how to weight it.

Now, the caps could be leaky in the crossover, and that too is easily solved. The coils really can't go bad, and I really doubt that the resistors could have strayed at all from factory spec unless ridiculous amounts of voltage was applied to them at some point in time.

[Deephaven]

The caps look like they had enough writing on them to pick replacements, the resistors should be marked as well. Replacing those components should be cake and will get them back to new. Add some foam and you are set. All at a price that I am sure will be WAY cheaper than buying something new that may very well be extremely inferior in your opinion.

[turdburst]

I have had good experiences with vintage speakers. I loved my Dahlquist DQ-10s. I have some Scott speakers in my room that work great for the amount I initially paid plus what I put into them.

The Klipschorn has been around forever and Klipsch still sell them today, and I Am pretty sure they are almost the same as when originally produced.

Vintage FTW