Paisley Research AE500 replacement woofers

[veloceleste]

I have a pair of of AE500's with mismatched woofers; one original and one with a generic replacement woofer. I know the original woofers were proprietary bextrene coned units made by audax for PR. Is there a way to determine specs/parameters of the woofer if someone had the proper equipment? I've searched and searched and can't find anything other than a spec sheet for the speakers from an owner's manual. The cabinets are beautiful and although the speakers are quite inefficient, they sound pretty good with their SEAS tweeter. I would like to find a replacement pair of woofers that might be close to the originals but don't want to just throw any old woofer in there. Thanks.

 

[Van_Isle]

Did you find a replacement?

 

[veloceleste]

I eventually found some specs online and replaced the woofers with something that had specs close to the originals as far as I could tell. They were actually inexpensive no name woofers that's dead up sounding pretty good. It's been a while since I sold them so if I still have paperwork on the woofers I'll let you know. Unfortunately the Paisley Research speakers don't have a large following.

 

[Thunderbox]

I would be very interested in knowing what speaker you used for the replacement.

 

[Van_Isle]

From reading up on Paisley speakers over time, I suspect Ian Paisley cooked up some pretty interesting crossovers for those Bextrene woofers. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't had my AE-400s apart to check out the drivers and crossover. I wonder however, how far off you'd be with a pair of 'generic' Audax woofers. Might be a fair bit better than some no-names.