I bought my 2ax when I was stationed in Germany around 73-74. The audio club had 2ax, 3as and 5s. They all had the light colored grilles and the Base Exchange had the European style cabinets of the 2ax with a reddish brown cloth and my wife and I preferred the dark cloth. I foolishly sold those speakers in 96. I found an almost new empty pair of the European cabinets a while back but health problems delayed any restoration efforts until just recently. I've tried to post photos but they're too large and I haven't figured out how to resize them in I-Photo yet