McIntosh XR 1051'S

cwsmith68
cwsmith68 Posts: 434
edited November 2012 in Vintage Speakers
I have a new project. I found a pair of McIntosh XR 1051's on CL for $100 and they looked very interesting to me. I contacted the guy and he said the cabs, grills, mids, tweets and crossovers were all there but someone had replaced the original 10' woofer and 12' passive with some cheapo Radio shack stuff. I talked him down to $75 and picked them up yesterday. These cabs are very nice, furniture quality walnut. I have been searching around the net hoping to find some Mc drivers and passives. No luck yet.Also there are supposed to be some aluminum rings around the missing components. I'm afraid these parts will be tuff to find. Any suggestions on where to look or possible substitutes for these?

Thanks.
Coley
Main system:
Denon PRA-1500, Denon POA-2400, Denon TU-660, Denon DCD-2560, Denon DVD-2910, Denon DRS-640, Denon DP-30L II w/DL-301 mc cart, BSR EQ-3000, DCM Timeframe 600's
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited November 2012
    Other than keeping an eye on Craiglist, using a search engine like http://www.adhuntr.com/ and eBay. I am not sure. If you can find out what the model numbers of the drivers are you might find they are used in other McIntosh models. So you could keep an eye out for those models as well. The other thing to do is find out, if you can, the driver specs and try to find a replacement on PartsExpress that is the same or similar.

    Those are some nice looking speakers!
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    edited November 2012
    The Radiators you can supposedly buy new. Several of the manufacturers show units that are supposed to be tunable via a variable weighting system. If you have the spec of the original driver a replacement could be tuned to fit.

    Supposedly
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  • cwsmith68
    cwsmith68 Posts: 434
    edited November 2012
    Thanks for the info guys.
    I really wanted to listen to these. So I borrowed the pr's out of my Monitor 11's and put the realistic 10's in. Not bad at all! So I will leave them like this for a while and see if any original parts pop up on the bay or elsewhere.
    Main system:
    Denon PRA-1500, Denon POA-2400, Denon TU-660, Denon DCD-2560, Denon DVD-2910, Denon DRS-640, Denon DP-30L II w/DL-301 mc cart, BSR EQ-3000, DCM Timeframe 600's
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