Thanks Paul,

I used a birthday gift owing to me to buy some new speakers (IPL S5TL Domes)
so the Wharfedales are "spare". I will look into repairs, then I could sell
them as a fully working item, I suppose. I already contacted a few repair
outfits but they couldn't find matching suspension or cones for these lovely
big cast frame 12 inch units.

Jo

In oups.com,
typed:
Jo,

I think it would be worth seeing how much it would cost to repair the
bass drivers before you do anything else.

Although there are any number of people who could do the job, I would
contact Castle Acoustics in Skipton first.

HTH

Paul

Jo wrote:
I'm in the process of retiring my Wharfedale speakers of 1970
vintage and was wondering about demoting them to a pair of super PC
speakers. One of the bass drivers is shot and so the other may not
be far behind. My idea is to put the mid range and treble units into
smaller enclosures that would fit on my desk and to build a
reasonable enclosure for the remaining bass unit (or a replacement)
to go somewhere else in the room.

OK, I know we are not talking hifi here but would this give me
reasonable results ?

My only doubt is how to drive the units. Can I use the existing
three-way crossover networks somehow ? How could I combine the bass
outputs to drive the single unit ?

Am I barking mad or does my idea sound reasonable ?

Jo