Post #64657 by Geeky Tiki on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 11:34 AM

Those are quite gruvy looking, Tiki410.

If you get them they can be pretty cheply brought up to a decent standard.

New woofer and tweeter and probably crossover would really be necessary to make them start to sound decent.

Speaker Cuty has lots of drivers and crossover kits and match all three so all you have to do is screw and glue.

http://www.speakercity.com/

Madisound has been around forever as well:

http://www.madisound.com/

There are others, but I am familiar enough with those two to say they are worth looking over.

On the true do-it-yourself side, there are a couple cool things to do that are quite cheap and will help the actual box sound better:

1. Wood Glue and fine lead shot or clean sand mixed together and then painted on or "poured and rotated" into the inside of the cabinet can very effectively damp resonances associated with cabinet vibration.

2. Layers of felt cut and glued to the front baffle and along the edges of the cabinet where the speakers connect to the front can cut down on the amount of refraction caused by a big flat front baffle.

I bet for not much money, you could get some sweet sounds from those babies! Be sure to give progress reports no matter what approach you take!