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RE: Restoring Acoustat Monitor 4




Wow - you're in Houston too? What are the odds? I'll pull the speakers out of the garage again in the next few days and remove the grills to see what the condition of the mylar diaphrams is. I sure hope they're still tight... A friend on the West Coast has a pair of acoustat III's and he told me you could use a hair dryer to tighten up the diaphrams. I'd like to find some instruction or a video on that before I try it though...

As for servos - I actually have the MK121 interfaces. What I was driving these with were a pair Harman Kardon Citation IIs strapped for mono - so one amp per channel. The sound was effortless and the headroom seemed limitless... For the front-end I had a simple little Dyna Pas-3 Preamp and the matching FM-3 Tuner. Both of these sounded great! The Pas-3 is somewhat modded but the tuner is stock. I'm embarrassed to say what my turntable is - its an old NAD turntable I got while during the time I worked at Audio Concepts in Houston...

These speakers were left with me by one of the best friends I've ever had who then fell upon hard times and just kinda disappeared... I haven't seen him in over 20 years... When my house flooded everything went out in the trash but I just couldn't bring myself to trash these so they went into the garage... I don't have a listening room any more as the wife says the speakers are too big and ugly - go figure right? But lately, I've had this inner urge - like its time - to see about restoring these.

I'll definately chronicle the restore on this thread.

Regards to all,

Luther

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