What type of wattage are you needing to push those w90's.
A new owner of Wharfedale Rosedale. Sings better than my previous Magneplanar 1.4. Having lots of fun listening to it (
driven by Fisher X-101-B).
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I too had a rattle in a w90. It would present whenever some low frequency played.Owner of a pair of w90's here. Love em!!! Some of you saw my original post in the speakers section of the forums after I got them home. My speakers have a date of mar 65. I'm patiently waiting for a cap order to arrive. I have to re-investigate an annoying subtle rattle in one woofer, but they still sound great. I have them resting on some cinderblocks to get the tweets to ear level. So far, my magic is coming from a yamaha ca-600. Oddly, it's outshining a yamaha cr-1020. Both recapped, but the 600 is chock full of nichicon audio grade caps & the 1020 has panasonic fc's. I'll definetly revisit the 1020 with some fancy nichicons for the signal path in the near future. Maybe the difference lays in the damping factor difference (70 vs 40 for the 1020). I have a nice but no frills tube I've tried. It was good but not better than the yamaha's. I'd like to try a higher end tube amp with them one day. Anybody wanna loan me one?
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Your woofer shows 4/69 so made April 1969. They look identical to mine, but mine show 6/72/12 on the woofer so that's June 1972. Quite a run unchanged, at least from the outside. Your crossover has some differences, but what didn't change was the old Elcap capacitors. You'll want to replace those as mine were out of spec after 43 years . These babies have high WAF, as can be seen by this;View attachment 705297
Okay I went and got them from storage yesterday. Still not hooked up or cleaned up for that matter but here are some photos.
I can't believe I went six months without knowing there was now a British Audio forum... :bash:
Currently-own three pairs of Wharfies. W90's, 2-way W60's, and W60E's. The W90's (in my avatar) are the first-generation, dual-3-way version with alnico drivers all around. Both 12"woofers are running full-range (And the date on the first woofer I looked at was 9/63 - That's 50 years ago this month... Pretty-cool). The W60's are from the same era and have alnico drivers and the same grillcloth. And my W60E's are actually from a good 8-10 years later (Say '71-'73).
Here's a link to the photo album on my user page for the W90's: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/album.php?albumid=2395
And there's a link below in my signature for a W60's demo video.
Don't have any modern Wharfedales though...
Well, after removing the tweeters and mids and testing them, all 3 non-working drivers are dead in the water it appears. Each tested a big fat 0 so apparently they are open. Not sure it is going to be cost effective to track down 3 replacements in an effort to put these back into service. II've got 2 good woofers, one tweeter and the good looking grilles with badges. Cabs are generally okay but will need a little more than a light scrubbing.