saabracer23
Super Member
About a month back I received a random text from a number that I didn’t recognize. All it said was “do you want these speakers? Free” along with a photo of a portion of a speaker where I recognized a Heil AMT driver. I immediately texted back and then received a call. It was a nice older gentleman, they belonged to his wife and they were not being used. He said the surrounds went years ago and they’ve been sitting in a room since then unused.
I showed up to their house the following day where the husband showed me some of his other gear and I helped him lift and hook up his Pioneer CS-99As in his work shop. He poured me a glass of light lager from his kegerator and we sat outside and talked for a bit. He enjoyed talking audio, as did his wife. She was hesitant to let the AMTs go, one because she etched her social into each cabinet lol. I told her that she could trust me, and she could have of course, but I did end up using my knife to scratch the numbers from the backs of the cabinets. I also told her that if it made her feel better that I wasn’t taking them to flip them, that I planned to restore them and that she could come by to listen when she wanted to. I doubt I’ll hear from them again, but the offer stands.
anyways I got them home and in front of the garage. Took some pics to show my brother my new find.
Quite the difference in veneer! First thing to take care of was the drivers and passives. I bought surrounds for the woofers and ended up buying new passives from ESS.
I ended up buying a crap load (about 4,000 ft) of military surplus Teflon insulated silver coated copper wire of various sizes. I put some of it across this bar to hang so I had easy access and these speakers are my first use for it. It’ll be used throughout the cabinets.
So next were the crossovers. All of the electrolytics were replaced with Audyn Q4 metallized polypropylene capacitors and the single sand cast resistor was replaced with a quality Ohmite. There were several push on clip connections on the crossover and to the drivers. All connections including to the drivers are now soldered.
One down one to go.
Dan
I showed up to their house the following day where the husband showed me some of his other gear and I helped him lift and hook up his Pioneer CS-99As in his work shop. He poured me a glass of light lager from his kegerator and we sat outside and talked for a bit. He enjoyed talking audio, as did his wife. She was hesitant to let the AMTs go, one because she etched her social into each cabinet lol. I told her that she could trust me, and she could have of course, but I did end up using my knife to scratch the numbers from the backs of the cabinets. I also told her that if it made her feel better that I wasn’t taking them to flip them, that I planned to restore them and that she could come by to listen when she wanted to. I doubt I’ll hear from them again, but the offer stands.
anyways I got them home and in front of the garage. Took some pics to show my brother my new find.
Quite the difference in veneer! First thing to take care of was the drivers and passives. I bought surrounds for the woofers and ended up buying new passives from ESS.
I ended up buying a crap load (about 4,000 ft) of military surplus Teflon insulated silver coated copper wire of various sizes. I put some of it across this bar to hang so I had easy access and these speakers are my first use for it. It’ll be used throughout the cabinets.
So next were the crossovers. All of the electrolytics were replaced with Audyn Q4 metallized polypropylene capacitors and the single sand cast resistor was replaced with a quality Ohmite. There were several push on clip connections on the crossover and to the drivers. All connections including to the drivers are now soldered.
One down one to go.
Dan
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