Sonab OD11 refurbishing

[KingJC]

Hi, new member first post here good for the haze.. so I came across an old pair of sonab od11 speakers, all original parts functional (sonab dust cover and all). Woofers and tweeters all sound ok but need refoaming, found the kit for the woofers online.

In messing around I grabbed a set of 6.5" woofers from a Volvo i had around (#10096 I think) 8 ohms also from Sweden, and they fit and sound nice in the od11's. Also have some 1.75" tweeters from logitech speakers that would fit with minor adjustments.

My questions are: what am i doing wrong with the replacement speakers? Is it worth refoaming the original speakers? & is a generic 1.75" tweeter refoam kit from Amazon ok, or is there a better option?

 

[homebrew]

Right off the bat I'd say part of the problem is you're trying to marry woofers and tweeters to a crossover they weren't designed for.

 

[KingJC]

Right off the bat I'd say part of the problem is you're trying to marry woofers and tweeters to a crossover they weren't designed for.

So I'm off by a few hz of some designed optimum points, but how sensitive does one need to be to certain criteria. Or maybe I swap a few components on the crossovers. I see commonly speaker replacements aren't the original speakers designed with the crossovers so what would be an acceptable difference to meet a speaker replacement criteria? Especially if the speaker is full range what's it matter if I cut the high freq to it at whatever point of the old crossover? (Its a chance encounter at a bar vs a 50 year marriage)