Hey, congratulations! They look pretty good, under the grills.
The woofer doesn't look beat up, is it the voice coil that's fried? Even if the spider got overpowered and knocked loose, still could be repairable. It would be a shame to "pollute" them with some other woofer, wouldn't it?
Anyroad, good luck with them...
(Newly purchased 'used' 1970 Sansui AS-300 speakers in great cosmetic shape)
So far...the one woofer only vibrated with 2 CDs in 3 weeks on certain bass passages:
Steely Dan - Greatest Hits
Bob Dylan - Desire.
It's never vibrated on any other CDs or any LPs.
I do need to take the woofer out and flip it 180 degrees and give it a try. Just glad to finally have a pair of these ''all elusive AS-300s. I Love em. Been playing them a lot and they sound is really nice. At first I thought it sounded flat...I was wrong. After listening to them for a few weeks now they sound great! Even with the 40 year old caps. I may, or may not, replace the caps. I'll investigate. Don't want to mess up a good thing. I am going to go through them but not now. Family stuff is goin on at the moment.
Also...Finally got a 1979 Sansui GX-100 TT/amp rack a few weeks ago, $150, eBay. Only seen one for sale used 4.5 years ago on eBay, USA and international. I wanted it but passed on it and have 'been kicking myself' in the butt ever since. It sold for $325-350 assembled, used of course. I was worried about it being broken in shipping.
And then there it was, on eBay in the Sansui Box! I got it. When it arrived, I opened the box and to my 'total astonishment and amazement' it was BSP (brand spanking NEW)! Still factory wrapped!! Obscure...very. Rare...I think so. Do I love it? YES. Just old Sansui collector stuff. It's a beautiful design, at least, to me. And a TT fits on top, even a 'large' one. I was worried about how much weight the shelves could hold. By the design, they can hold a ton. Hat's off to Sansui for this design!!
a pair of handbuilt shaker table amps from NASA that i used to run a sub under my bed.
what did i win?
The NASA award! Verrrry cool!! You won!
:>)