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Hey Kent. The main reason is that someone in the past someone replaced one of the original CTS woofers with a driver from an Infinity, probably from the s series and the sound doesn't match. I have not been able to locate an original woofer to replace it with. So that entails replacing both woofer drivers. If replacing both I had rather have an 8 ohm pair so that I can run them from my receivers along with another pair of speakers. Parts express has some decent 8" 4 ohm speakers but not with the correct values or frame size. My cabinets require an overall frame diameter of 8.25". No easy solution but as I see it my choices are limited to finding a needle in a haystack or converting to 8 ohm and try to stay as close to the sound as the originals. I may only have to change the choke if the other specs for the 8 ohms are close. Maybe I should leave them as is and hope to find an original woofer one day?

Western Electric.

Hello all. New here and just starting to get a basic idea of speaker construction. My question may be ridiculous but I will not know if I don't put it out here. I want to replace the 4 ohm woofers in my Rectilinear Mini 3's with 8 ohm woofers. I'm guessing that I will lose some volume at the same signal wattage but I'm OK with that aspect. If this mod is doable how drastic will I need to change the crossover components? The speakers have a 5" 4 ohm mid and a 2" tweeter that is 8 ohms. The crossover points are 400Hz and 8000Hz. They use an 89uF cap, a 2.2uF cap a wire wound resistor to the potentiometers. I do not know the Henry value of the choke. I will attach a photo of a similar crossover.