I appreciate that info...She must have been talking about her whole system cost.  I'll remove the price from my website..

She also told me that they worked great!  After I got them and started doing some research and purchased a second pair for the back up drivers, I found the plastic bands on the second pair.  The ones she gave me had the bands cut off of the hold down inserts on the back of the speakers, so she knew they were broken as someone attempted to work on them, but she didn't disclose that to me.  Oh well, the price was right and I don't have much money in the complete package with back up parts to boot. $400 bucks 20 years ago would probably be about a grand now....I appreciate the heads up.  These are sure some fine sounding and efficient speakers.  Like I said in my website, they are well suited for home theater surrounds.  I've got some $350 Polk RC85I's in the ceiling already, so I'll parallel them for even better surround with a 4 ohm presentation to my amplifiers....  In addition to my Rotel, I'm running 3 other amps.  I had to add 2 more electrical circuits.

 Very best regards, Mike

For those that haven't seen it before, here is a picture of the rear of the official B&O port conversion for the ABR of RL60's/40's.

Thanks Puncher.....I'll pass on that info to my Speaker Surgeon...

I think foam ought to be used on coffee "to go" cups only....

Mike

Puncher,

That was one of my concerns I had when I converted mine to passive radiators.  I knew the cabinet tuning frequency would be raised a few hz, but being used as surrounds and the sub taking over everything from 60 or 80hz and below, it wasn't an issue for me.  I will probably leave one of the spare RL 60's I have with them and the specs, and let them see what they can do  with it.  I'm getting a some driver protection from over excursion with my design, and so if the tuning is a bit higher, it won't affect my application as surrounds.

They like challenges and after visiting my site and seeing the ABR plates, it's a twist to their normal refoaming and speaker building so they want to see what they can do.

Thanks for the reminder..

Mike

I certainly will......

You guys have a great forum here!  😁

Mike

Wow ... you guys seem to have a lot of fun around here 😁

i just wanted to let you guys know that the ppl at "Good-Hifi" are able to get replacement surrounds, though it may take 6 weeks for them to deliver and they can't give a price yet, though the estimate is around 25€ for each ring.

Also i identified the bass speaker as an ITT and some verry helpfull ppl at some other forum could provide the specs for the reflex tube.

With the diameter at 6,8 cm the length is 13,93 cm, however their actual advice was to close the box and try to reduce the volume by half to 8 / 9 Liters rather than repairing the ABR or converting to bassreflex, since the speakers are actually designed fore much smaller boxes.

Puncher, you really made my day. Thanx alot for the pic.  I'm sure the two guys from this other forum who helped me out would like to take a look at it. If it's OK with you i'd like to steal it and reupload it for them ??? Though i doubt it would produce any meassuerable traffic, i guess a deep-link would not be apreciated by the admins?

And can you verify the size with what they came up? Judging from the pic, the lenght could be ~14cm, but it does look thinner. 

Anyways, i've already spend more time researching and nagging around then i would have wanted to spend repairing the speakers, so i'm not really sure about what i'm going to do now ... especialy since i'm sitting in the middle of nowhere here in switzerland and DIY is an almost unknown phenomema in this part of the world. Like not beeing able to find a suplyier for caps ...

@mike:  Verry nice site and pic-tutorial !!!!!!!!!!!!