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The Black Adder
12-05-2010, 07:35
Hello there.

I have a pair of Wilson Benesch arc speakers up for restoration.

One speaker is in immaculate condition and works fine whilst the other has no drivers after I had a speaker fire. I have removed the drivers from the damaged speaker so I could clean it up.

Both speakers are matched serial pairs. (The damaged speaker btw looks worse than it is in the photos as the pictures were taken in low light hence exposure was longer)

I do have the face plate for the tweeter that is not shown, it's still attached to the damaged tweeter. I can supply both the damaged drivers if needed.

Also with this are the original stands that are in superb condition with only 2 tiny nicks on one of them. Please note, these alone sell for £550 and are never discounted.

A pair of original speaker covers that are in perfect condition, not really used so at least you will be able to cover the slight damage on one of the speakers.

When the covers are on they look brand new as both speakers are in immaculate condition in every other way apart from the obvious.

Original packaging is included in this sale.

These were given back to me by the insurance company after a struggle.

Give me a sensible offer for everything as I'm not sure how much all this is worth to someone but please note these do cost £2850 new and even 2nd hand your looking at £1500+. This is a superb DIY project for anyone wanting some amazing sounding and amazing looking speakers for a substantial discount.

Some of the parts from this sale are on ebay but I wanted to give you guys a chance for a good discount on the job lot.

Collection from Lichfield area is fine, paypal is also good.


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twelvebears
12-05-2010, 07:45
Joe.

I have to ask Matey.

Speaker fire? What? How? :scratch:

The Black Adder
12-05-2010, 07:55
mate.. lol.. good question. Lightning? - Power surge? - or they just didn't like my taste in music and decided to revolt, who knows... it's just one of those things.

It happend about 2 months ago and all I can say is that it was very scary so I recommend turning everything off at night regardless.

We were just happy the smoke alarms sounded and it didn't catch hold of anything else.

Got a new system now anyway with help from Jerry - top lad.

snip
26-05-2010, 07:11
mate.. lol.. good question. Lightning? - Power surge? - or they just didn't like my taste in music and decided to revolt, who knows... it's just one of those things.

It happend about 2 months ago and all I can say is that it was very scary so I recommend turning everything off at night regardless.

We were just happy the smoke alarms sounded and it didn't catch hold of anything else.

Got a new system now anyway with help from Jerry - top lad.

Still, their not active speakers, it takes a hell of a lot of tension to make a voice coil heat up to the point where the laquer ignites. Was your amplifier burned out too?


//J

leo
26-05-2010, 08:35
The amp probably went outputting DC and turned the voice coil of the speaker into a a very hot heating element :(