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  1. Hope does spring eternal. Styles are said to return eventually as do listening habits. You can't strap bookshelf speaks to your head so beats and a player or app are the mobility norm, but that is not to say that good music is no longer appreciated. I see above this reply that some reversal of techs grip on the youngers is happening. This is a clue that maybe some are realizing that having a computer and an app that will make sounds does not "record" a sound and is not a recording of humans interaction with an environment, This might make it thru to our brains as somehow flawed. It's a STYX's MR Roboto thing and is too much perfection packaged as music. It has none of the atmosphere around it that true organically rendered sounds CAN have. And, the playback is an integral element in the experience. This isn't dissing digital in general but more the trend of artificial music production, the trend that will put musicians out of a job and us with a purely canned product. RANT done The whole world is bombarded with so many distractions these days that it is perhaps the one reason that the younger gens inclination is to take the speediest route to music appreciation throught tech. This is so that they can answer emails, do tweets, texts, adjust their blue tooths, do a couple of kindle books before lunch, and oh' watch some movies on their iphones before going home from work. Oh well, I'm gonna go put some batteries in my hearing aids. Hrbay
  2. wondering how it went for barryjo. After reading his nearly two year old post and thread, I can empathize with his plight, but many have gone through the curve on the 3's. He might have been able get enough info and bravery to find repair scheme for his mid. A replacement for the al tinsel wire with copper magnet wire was my start. The mids would click on a battery but only coming at the VC stub of wire, as the wires were a scrubby mess from previous repairs I think. Getting the wire lengths right took several shots in the dark due to the differing conductivity values of copper and aluminum, , but I got a good match on the one voice coil before doing the other one. OHMs only. Fixturing for centering the VC was done , but don't recall how I did it? Also, silicone or de-airated urethane epoxy today might be used to sub for the mids surrounds, I had no idea then or now what was used oem.. I used electrical grade silicone reduced a bit with acetone for mine. Still have the al wire in the tweets but ran low on gung-ho on rewinding them. The wires have been broken numerous times, and as there are small amounts of wire lost in each repair ,I have had to resort to field type repairs with thin copper strips crimped to the remaining stubs of magnet wire and flooding the joint with good solder. Not very engineered and not a job to be done after having a cup of coffee?but it worked. I recapped the old crossovers and did the pots along with new stuffing and non oem grill cloths. Listening to them right now from another room, but my hearing aid batteries are running low and chiming at me so anyway, I hope barryjo did get it sorted out. Let me go. herbay
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