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  1. Thanks AR Pro. Those are the measurements I need to complete the project.
  2. eBay sells these badges for $10 a pair. Cheap metal with painted letters. They have double sided tape to stick to grill cloth.
  3. Ar5 new grill and cloth. Time for badge placement. Speakers will be used vertically. Can somebody measure to the center of the badge from both the right side and bottom edge of the grill with in an 1/8 of an inch. I am guessing that Ar3a and Ar5 badges are close to the same placement. I am using stick on eBay badges until I can locate originals. Thanks for your help!
  4. Thanks for the leads on the mids. I am following up.
  5. Thanks for the reply. looks like 1. Purchase a working original. They sometimes come up for sale 2. Purchase a 4 ohm original and adapt it. Since both woofers are AR-2ax replacements and the pots are Lpads there is no need to keep the cabinets AR5 original. I would like to at least keep the drivers in the AR family. My options are, Will look for original AR5 mid. Else: Look for 2 four ohm AR3a/11/lst mids for replacement in both cabinets. Then sell the working AR5 mid. Would that be a better alternative then just replacing one bad mid driver and living with the good one? Subjective question, could you hear the difference in the mids? My understanding is that a resister is inserted in series to maintain the 4 ohm driver impedance at 8 ohms. Are there Crossover components that need changing? Adding a series resister would show the amp about an 8 ohm load. is the loss of sensitivity across the series resistor canceled by the increase sensitivity of the 4 ohm mid? Since I an still learning, if the question can be answered by me researching let me know and I will research it. . Thanks for the help!
  6. Mid driver no sound. Woofer and tweeter appear to be working. Removed mid driver to bench and tested with ohm meter, reads open. All drivers in second speaker appear to work. What are my options for the dead mid driver?
  7. Thanks for the information. I am out of town for a few days. Will be back at it when I get home. Tom
  8. Second Speaker pictures. I have no idea of what is going on. I do know that both were working okay 20 years ago. still need ideas on first speaker. thanks tom
  9. Have read the AR3a restore manual. Looks like woofer may have been replaced? I don't remember having that done. attached are the pictures requested and a few more. Measure resistance of woofer the best i could read was between 3.5 and 4 ohms. Any thoughts strategy of fixing or diagnosing the problem? thanks tom
  10. purchased speakers in 1969. Speakers been in basement for 20 years. One speaker has what I think is normal output in all three drivers. The other speaker has very faint out put in mid and tweeter. The woofer has output that sounds deeper then the working speaker woofer. Both woofers have been reformed. I am guessing there is a cross over issue with open capacitors. Seems strange that there would be a problem in both the mid and high cross over components. Any thoughts and how to proceed would be appreciated.
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