OEM speakers had died years ago, too nice to just toss away, too expensive to replace the speakers, I thought.So I bought a pair of foam surrounds to repair the woofers and some tacky glue. No good. Apparently one of the voice coils was toast, so I looked and looked, and measured, and measured again, looked at multiple manufacturers, dug around on their sites looking for specs.You know. Actual width of speaker? These are 6-5/8” as best as I can measure (about 170mm) and the screw holes were at 163mm on the speaker box, with a little less space on the SKAR speakers so that I had to get each screw started at an angle from inside to OUTSIDE of about 45 degrees to get the screws started in the original holes.But they fit.But did they work? Oh yeah. Running an older ADCOM 565 preamp into an ADCOM GFA-535 II (100 WPC) amp, I hooked these up and ran them up to about half power.Yeah, they work.Very good sound quality, hard to compare with originals as I hadn’t used them in about ten years – or much longer – but I was impressed, so much so I’m looking at their crossover, a couple of 2” bass ports, titanium tweekers and a set of crossovers for next month.I’ve had these speakers since 1986, and I think my grandchildren will be able to use them long after I’m gone; they’ll inherit a nice audio system too if they’re into “old school” by then.
