You can see from the photo the tweeter has damaged foam but it does not affect the function! The the bass unit, the coil is open circuit and all 4 units (brought two more spare) are due to the corroded connection at the flex wire to the paper cone. Thus this is not internal open circuit and thus I try to reconnect them using a wire as shown. After repair, the driver can be used without any issue!
After I sold my Tannoy Turnberry, I buy a pair of smaller speaker from China. It was a ProAc 2.5 clone. The price is wonderful and I use this speaker till today! I have modified the internal film capacitors (3.4uF and 4.7uF) to Rifa film capacitors and it seems improve a bit in the mid and high frequency.
This is the biggest speaker I ever own so far. Due to its size and small room in Hong Kong, I have to gave it up after 3 years use in 2006. I use 300B to drive it but with its 90dbslp sensitivity, it is still unable to drive it to satisfactory sound level and quality. Later I build a Aleph 60 and it sound much better but the booming is still there due to small room effect. So I have to gave it up and sold it for 10k HKD!
This is a very nice speaker I brought in 1995. I sod it out in 2005 and I am a bit regret to sell it!
Back in over 20 years, I own a pair of Celestion SL6 speaker. It was a very difficult load speaker and not many power amplifier can drive it well. I have Quad 405 at that time but this speaker is still hungry for power! In the last few years, I use this speaker as my test speaker when I build my amplifiers. This is the only picture that I have left for this speaker.
Even my pair of Celestion SL6 is gone, my brother still keep a pair of SL6si.
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