LuckyFindRF

Reelman - I will look into that. Is there a way to test if a speaker is working as intended, or is it just something that needs to be listened to. I'll do some reading as soon as I can, but are there any replacements for those back plates out there? I assume it'd probably be parts from Ebay. Or anything else people have used to fill that space? Can you pass on the information for Roy? Also - are you in NW Pa?

Yeah, the price was right lol. Since I know about what these retail for however, it does make me a little concerned on "just how much" you can spend restoring them. I need to sit down and start reading those threads as you suggest. For starters, is there a good way to diagnose what's working and what's not? By my year, I believe one of the speakers seems to be fully working while the other one may be missing the mid-range, and the Twitter seems low output....

Thank you for all of this information. I need to do a lot of reading/learning here. I'll be honest, my initial plan was to clean them up minimally and sell them. After listening to them though, I'm having second thoughts. I brought my wife in the room to listen to them - she cares very little about speakers in general - within 30 seconds her comment was "these sound really good .... really rich ...." So yeah .... I may be looking at re-doing these and then finding a place to incorporate them into our home. I'm going to check out your post in detail when I have a few minutes. It sounds like I found the best resource around though in terms of getting to people who can make this a lot easier on me (I have no experience building or repairing speakers, but I'm reasonably handy and I can follow directions well, lol!) Appreciate all the advice so far....

Got it. I'm outside Pittsburgh, PA.

Thanks David. You know I've heard "these speakers are amazing" before about others and ... they always sound alright... (I'm not an audiophile, truth be told). But these when I turned them on ... sounded different. Like very clear. Definitely noticeable. The pots seem to be basically missing, so that would make a lot of sense in terms of an issue on the one side. My wife's father was an electrical engineer, I'm guessing he made some "modifications" to them at some point (being that the same was done on both sides ...)

Hi All - Helping my wife clean out her father's home last weekend. As the "electronics guy" I was tasked with disassembling his stereo system. Came across this very old pair of speakers not in the greatest condition. Did a little bit of research and found out these were actually a really well regarded set. Long story short, brought them back home and finally was able to test them today. I'm blown away. They sound fantastic. One speaker appears fully functional. The other I'm not 100% sure the tweeter is functioning as it should be (though it is functioning). They cosmetically need some work. I've done some reading and am amazed at the lengths some on this board will go for these types of speakers. That said, they sound incredible for 50+ year old speakers. I'm not sure what I want to do with these. I was convinced I wanted to sell them and was going to start by offering them here rather than Ebay, FB Marketplace, etc. ... but now am considering if I can find a place to keep them.... I'm open to advice and/or suggestions (or offers)! If I kept them and wanted to have them restored, is there anyone that could be recommended to take a look at them? They are missing the back speaker plates and the potentiometers (?) that looked to have been there in the past (pics below). Really just looking for some advice here - appreciate anything you all can suggest! Thanks! -RF Pictures: Link 1 Link 2