With the Semester drawing to a close, it's time to have some boy toy fun!

If you've read my posts, you know that I enjoy refinishing old loudspeakers, and that I also enjoy designing and "producing" new speakers out of old materials.

Someone I know has a pair of cabinets similar to the ones shown in the photo. They are Dynaco A-25 cabinets with broken crossovers and random drivers (woofers and tweeters) in them.

He owes me a few hundred dollars for refinishing work I've done for him, so I'm thinking of taking the cabinets for maybe $40 of what he owes me. I'd then rework the crossovers with some capacitors I have here (5.1 or 6.2 mfd, for those who know about such things), install some phenolic ring tweeters from Parts Express, and also install some generic 10" Dayton woofers from Parts Express.

I want to see how the sound would compare to stock Dynaco A-25s, which are among the most popular vintage speakers out there. I've always thought the woofers were the weakest part of Dynaco A-25s. Some smaller Dayton 8" woofers sound great in some KLH 24 cabinets I have here. The ring tweeters sound beautiful with massed vocals in my (stock) Marantz Imperial 6 loudspeakers. So why not try the larger Dayton/ring combination in Dynaco cabinets and see what I come up with?

Wish me luck!