With as many speakers as were being built back then, a shipment of baskets would arrive and off they go into production. Next set of baskets might be a bit different. Kept happening, everywhere. Few manufacturers made stuff the same all the time. Epicure might not have cared about the supplier of the basket.
Looks like that's the case.
Bass was really bad/less on these and turns out, I connected one woofer out of phase.
Once that's corrected, they sounded really nice and balanced.
Not as much bass as JBL's but not lacking either.
Next, I replaced the capacitor.
However, the crossover/terminal cup is a ****.
Terminal cup can only come from the back but the binding posts protruding inside prevent it from coming out.
So instead, I soldered and hot glued within the cabinet.
I was thinking of replacing resistors as I have them as well but need to take terminal cup out and need to disassemble the terminal posts so not this time.
Hot glue gave me
a middle finger.
When I took the glue gun out of the woofer hole, a big drop landed on my middle finger and now I have a big blister right below the nail. :angry:
Swapped the woofers from top to low and put some wood glue on the bottom stands as the small MDF base is pretty weak in few areas.
Original crossover:
Original capacitor also is poly so might have been okay but not as good as new since it's 37 years old now.
New capacitor along with old capacitor on the side:
They sound really good so far.
Nice highs and mids and slightly less bass than I like but after listening a while, it doesn't come into mind. :thmbsp:
:screwy::bash:
