BarryG

My take on WAF, trade the wife for ALS and be done with it! Lol

Lots of Vintage options, if your looking for new, I would check into Tektons. I know Travis has a New pair of ELACs he likes! I’ve not heard the ELACs but have a few friends who like them! Tektons is where I would look first! @kve777 when lockdown is over, I need to hear your setup! @Rob if you go with amazing s, you will need more power than the m-200t.

That’s sad!

Seal as tight as possible, I’d check all gaskets, passive, mid woofers and even the connection cup! I bought a roll of armacell (tip from Polk forum). Trim as needed as it’s 2” wide, one roll will last for a lot of speakers!

Thanks rod! The more I looked at the pics, the more I was shaking my head! you will have great speakers soon sk1bum.

A hot air gun is useful to soften the glue!

I’m looking at your crossover, looks like it’s changed with the tweeter they added, that triple stacked yellow capacitors do not look original, and the wire wound resistor value is wrong, so that all has been added! I would take careful note of wiring locations before disassembly! I would pull all components, double check everything even inductors, but my guess they are correct. Might not hurt to double check that the 6.5” drivers are mw-6503. Since even the internal wires appear to not be original, Polk used Solid white and solid black wire inside! barry Hey it’s a project, when I did mine, I put new gasket material around all drivers, dynamat on mid woofers and passive radiators too. But I tend to overdo things. I even put black hole material behind mid woofers and tweeters in my SDAs, and my SDA inductor was a special toroidal one ordered from Jantzen.

The whole crossover is probably mounted to backside of the binding post plate!carefully mark , I used numbers and unsolder the wires mine had 4 wires! Since there are 4 wires and two colors, be careful! Now binding plate with crossover can be move to your workbench to work on.

Use the values in the schematic, replace electrolyticS sand resistors! 12 uF electrolytic with polypropylene I used Dayton 27 uF electrolytic with polypropylene I used Dayton 2.7 ohm I used Mills! you don’t have to replace the 16 uF Mylar but it does not hurt! 3 or 4 components per speaker! Polypropylene caps are much larger than the electrolytic s! if you can’t find correct value, use two capacitors in parallel to get correct value!

Crossover upgrade is the first thing I ever did, crossover in these is fairly easy. I would do the rd0198 tweeter upgrade. Again Polk is your best source if they have them! I used Dayton poly in my monitor 10s. good luck with your project!

Plans for stands if your DIY! i am using a pair of IsoAcoustics stands on mine I picked up cheap! Seem to work well! Even can angle them!

These speakers match well with a Carver m-500t mkii!

Polk customer support would be cheaper if they have them in stock, there is an improved driver for the sl-2000 ( upgrade is rd0194) and for the dl3000 (Upgrade is rd0198). Last time I ordered , $49 each. Mention your a member of club Polk , get a small discount, thinking it’s free shipping! Midwest does not reduce price for club Polk members! The upgrades are with it! some 10’s may have sl-2500, if that is what was originally in there, use the rd0198! the first version of The 10s which I have, are fitted with peerless speakers! If I upgrade would be the rd0194! But have considered the rd0198 with changes to crossover! Various crossovers are on the forum https://forum.polk.com That Vifa driver might be an upgrade for newer speakers, I’m trying to figure how the box is sealed with that driver installed. The big woofer is passive, works well with a good sealed box!

https://forum.polkaudio.com/search?adv=&search=Monitor+10+vifa+tweeter+upgrade&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_poll=1&discussion_question=1&comment_answer=1&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&within=1+day&date=

I just searched vifa tweeter on Polk forum, it’s a round tweeter used on some of the later polks. Nowadays rebadged as Dayton!

My thoughts too Dennis, crossover upgrade would be good! Might have been changed when they changed tweeter. I bought a cheap pair of polka, guy did not realize half the drivers were from radio shack, drivers I replaced from Polk sounded good! For the most part Polk drivers are available! Usually 50 each! Not every model is available, you can find schematics on Polk forum as !well Parts express is a good source for capacitors and resistors, Madisound has some too. Sonicaps are nice but pricy (soniccraft).

It’s likely I will not come, if I do, it will be a day trip like cf15! Depends upon how things work out, and if unemployment comes through!

Worth a good listen, let me know how they sound!

Not the original tweeters! are these 10, 10a, or 10b. It’s usually obvious from tweeter! Polk has nice tweeter upgrades in general!

Awesome! Sounds like a system coming together!

OCCD for sure ‘ obsessive cassette collecting disorder’ ; lol

You can’t go wrong with an updated c-1 or the Black version c-11. Search for the BillD mods, has a nice phono section on these units! barryG

Welcome to the Carversite! I can feel in the force , OCCD is strong with this one! enjoy your stay, a lot of info on these pages! barry