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Haha on that speaker stack, faber12. I no longer have it like that. It was in my bedroom and no pets. Lol. I have since obtained some different speakers that I have stacked, but not so dangerously high. And the $20 for the speakers have been well worth the amount of knowledge I am getting since...

Okay thanks toxcrusadr. I will have to go deeper into the cabs very carefully and get my hands on the supplied caps. I would then love to learn on how to test the caps with a multimeter. I just purchased my first multimeter and am eager to perform a first test of some sort. Especially with speakers.

I wander which speakers JVC designed for this particular amp. I am curious enough to peek through an old JVC catalog from the same year model as this receiver. It would have to be from 1973. Do you know if JVC made audiophile speakers at that time? Or at any time?

Thank you, slimecity. I appreciate the information and the web link. Looks like parts express is the place to go for caps and other electronic needs. I also appreciate your simple advice. My employment supervisor went to school for electronic engineering. Anytime I ask him for advice, he goes...

It's an interesting receiver. I found that I had to turn the volume up to three quarters of the way up for sound. The four speakers I had connected to shouldn't have eaten up too much power. So the JVC is under powered just as you experienced with it. The 4 channel matrix speaker mode definitely...

Yeah that was the only way to get decent treble from them tweeters. Thanks for informing about it being due to the old caps on them tweeters. So how do you suggest I replace them? Do I remove the old caps and replace with the same rating caps? Or does the label on the back of the cabinet shed...

Thanks for the boost of confidence in my new adventures. I turned both pairs of speakers on their sides with the tweeters toed inwards and stacked on each other. Experimenting with this type of speaker placement as I have never tried this before. I am truly a newbie. Also tried them out with...

Thank you janikphoto. That is very true. These may have never had a badge of recognition in the mainstream. I was mostly curious for the sake of just being curious. The past couple of days I have been experimenting with them in different small area setups. The acoustics and vocal output sound...

Cool. This one was a $5 storage unit rescue. Needs work. Puts out sound great, but with the slightest bit of a hiss coming out from the right channel. It will need to be serviced if I choose to keep it. All I did to it was open it up and clean all the potentiometers. The contacts on them were...

Okay I finally found the cap tucked tightly on one of the connecting wires. I didn't want to disconnect the wires from the woofer posts because it was very snug and I didn't want to damage them. But after peeking very closely into the cab, I found that cap. I'm sure them caps need to be...

And interestingly enough these cabs don't have a single cap inside of them. Now I may need help to cap these speakers to get some better modified sound from them. What do I need to do first to test each driver and tweeter for their respective capabilities? Thank you everyone for any advice and...

Here is what the the tweeters look like and the numbers stamped on them. It says PT8160.

Alright so here it is. I have finally decided to remove a driver and here are the numbers stamped on it.

Thank you, GlenGC, for your advice. I will share info about what's inside the cabs as soon as I get inside of them.

Thanks. I'm not too sure what I want to venture into just yet. I barely created this stack two days ago only to have a holding place for the speakers on top. I am now considering a selector to make something happen, but I will definitely need to lay the Realistic Nova 6 cabs sideways. I don't...