[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

My dad and his wife are moving to a smaller home. They have a pair of
mint-looking Infinity Monitor IIAs which they want to sell. I looked
them over and the foam surrounds on the woofers are, of course, shot.
I recall these as a top-of-the-line speaker back in the day. 12"
woofer, dome mid and tweeter, Walsh super-tweeter.

Is it worth refoaming them? How would they compare to today's
speakers? And ideas on what to ask for them, or are they now a
candidate for Goodwill?

I don't want to listen to them at any volume with the foam like that.
They only listened to classical at background volume on them. I'm
tempted to refoam them just to see what they can do.

[WindsorFox-{SS}-]

Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! wrote:
My dad and his wife are moving to a smaller home. They have a pair of
mint-looking Infinity Monitor IIAs which they want to sell. I looked
them over and the foam surrounds on the woofers are, of course, shot.
I recall these as a top-of-the-line speaker back in the day. 12"
woofer, dome mid and tweeter, Walsh super-tweeter.

Is it worth refoaming them? How would they compare to today's
speakers? And ideas on what to ask for them, or are they now a
candidate for Goodwill?

I don't want to listen to them at any volume with the foam like that.
They only listened to classical at background volume on them. I'm
tempted to refoam them just to see what they can do.



IMHO well worth refoaming, especially if you can do it yourself.
BUT; if you've never done it, do not think it is something simple. The
alignment is fairly critical and a jig to immobilize the cone isnot
imperrative, but more than helpful.

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[Trevor Wilson[_2_]]

"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in message
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My dad and his wife are moving to a smaller home. They have a pair of
mint-looking Infinity Monitor IIAs which they want to sell. I looked
them over and the foam surrounds on the woofers are, of course, shot.
I recall these as a top-of-the-line speaker back in the day. 12"
woofer, dome mid and tweeter, Walsh super-tweeter.

Is it worth refoaming them? How would they compare to today's
speakers? And ideas on what to ask for them, or are they now a
candidate for Goodwill?

I don't want to listen to them at any volume with the foam like that.
They only listened to classical at background volume on them. I'm
tempted to refoam them just to see what they can do.

**As I recall, the Monitor II's were a real mish-mash of whatever Infinity
managed to buy cheap from it's vendors. There were piezo tweeters (front and
back), those really silly Walsh drivers (talk about HUGE moving mass, for a
tweeter) and crap crossovers. Cheap chipboard cabinets filled out what was a
rather forgettable, albeit quite contemporary looking, speaker system. I'd
dump them, but hey, there's millions of fools on eBay.

Trevor Wilson

[Jim[_11_]]

On Feb 29, 11:55*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote:
My dad and his wife are moving to a smaller home. They have a pair of
mint-looking Infinity Monitor IIAs which they want to sell. I looked
them over and the foam surrounds on the woofers are, of course, shot.
I recall these as a top-of-the-line speaker back in the day. 12"
woofer, dome mid and tweeter, Walsh super-tweeter.

Is it worth refoaming them? How would they compare to today's
speakers? And ideas on what to ask for them, or are they now a
candidate for Goodwill?

I don't want to listen to them at any volume with the foam like that.
They only listened to classical at background volume on them. I'm
tempted to refoam them just to see what they can do.

I would be interested in them. Need a replacement woofer for mine.

Jim