Hey, guess what! I just picked up a pair of Wharfedale w90 speakers for $360 locally! They are in good shape. The previous owner "Cleaned them up" with that restore MiniWax stuff. So I will need to strip them down and restore the woof. He did a poor job. Didnt' get the corners. But the grill cloth is in perfect shape! We played them at his place and I "THINK" i heard sound coming out of all the speakers. I wasnt 100% because I had no idea how many drivers where inside.
So I got them home and opened them up and put a multimeter to them. One of the cabinets upper cavity was glued at the middle blocks. Omg I almost had to destroy the rear of the cabinets to get that upper cavity back plate off. What a nightmare. Had to use a chisel.
My multimeter readings on the wires and on the driver basket binding posts where kind of all over the place but this is what I finally came up with. Hope I used my multimeter correctly and measured right. I tried for 20 min...
6 ohm tweeters
3 ohms midrange
2 ohm woofers.
As you can see, these wharfedales have 2 tweeters, 2 midrange and 2 woofers per speaker. Also, Im not sure what is Alnico or not. Are those woofers Alnico? All drivers show a date of 3/63. So that's good I think.
Also, I lucked out! The previous owner bought these from a professor at the Univiersity of New Mexico and he had no idea the speaker stands were in one of the cabinets! I was shocked to see them. Wow.
So I got them home and opened them up and put a multimeter to them. One of the cabinets upper cavity was glued at the middle blocks. Omg I almost had to destroy the rear of the cabinets to get that upper cavity back plate off. What a nightmare. Had to use a chisel.
My multimeter readings on the wires and on the driver basket binding posts where kind of all over the place but this is what I finally came up with. Hope I used my multimeter correctly and measured right. I tried for 20 min...
6 ohm tweeters
3 ohms midrange
2 ohm woofers.
As you can see, these wharfedales have 2 tweeters, 2 midrange and 2 woofers per speaker. Also, Im not sure what is Alnico or not. Are those woofers Alnico? All drivers show a date of 3/63. So that's good I think.
Also, I lucked out! The previous owner bought these from a professor at the Univiersity of New Mexico and he had no idea the speaker stands were in one of the cabinets! I was shocked to see them. Wow.