Acoustat Spectra 11 found on Facebook Marketplace

 I found a pair of Acoustat Spectra 11s on Facebook Marketplace for the princely sum of $50!

They were not in good shape, as one had fairly severe water damage. A neighbor of the original owner was helping him to sell it and originally wanted $200 for them, but since they were damaged and not functioning, they posted them for $50 and that's what I paid. The seller said that they had been in storage in his garage for many years. I can confirm that there were lots of spider webs and dead bugs found on the speakers.

Here are the pictures when I got them back home.

At first glance, they seemed ok. The seller did not have the requisite power supplies so I had to order them from eBay. Thank goodness they were still available and cheap.

The following pictures show the water damage to the one speaker. The side panel had swollen from sitting in water for a long time. It expanded all the way up to the top of the bass box!

This speaker also wasn't functioning when I first plugged in the power supply. I opened the box on top of the speaker up and found that one of the leads from the inductor had ripped off from the circuit board. In fact the inductor was just sitting loose in the box. The wires from the inductor obviously couldn't take this strain since they are a very small gauge. Once I soldered it back, it worked fine.

Next steps are to build a new speaker box for the damaged one... Stay tuned.