These speakers were my fathers, went to my sister when he died. One of them had a problem and she gave them to me, I ordered the repair kit but didn't take on the repair, I'll just say it was very involved. Anyway, sent them to White Bear Minnesota and they replaced the panels as there was a tear in the mylar. This weekend I'll be refinishing the bases and oak trim along with finding some quality speaker wire. Can't wait to hear these, there's no "box" to color the sound and they are bipolar so the sound stage is incredible.