Has anyone seen this before? Are they worth repairing? RD0194-1 the way to go?

tunafish
tunafish Posts: 3
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I'm new to the forum, only day 2. I have several sets of Polks but newer stuff, still 20 years old. I just acquired a pair of 10Bs, it's in the serial on the back and look exactly like the pic from Spidey7. I plan on setting up a "listening room" and just getting into it. I've always had vinyl and just getting back into it after years. I have a Yamaha HTR-5590 which is pretty decent to me but I'm building. I have a Sansui AU-D9 and AU-D7 and several turntables, nothing to brag on except sticking to a strict budget...lol. I purchased new a month ago the Wharfedale Lintons Herritage, while only set up temporary (not placed properly) they sound really good. Been shopping for old vintage stuff for ages and the Lintons confirmed it. The 10bs were $100 and they look pretty good, could redo the grills. The thing is 1 tweeter doesn't work, verified by listening, switching between speakers and checked with a ohm meter. I think I'm keeping them anyway, is it worth it? Sorry for being so long winded here, just wanted to give some back ground and were I was going. Been looking at all the post here and it was a big help, I'm confused by what I found. They are 10bs and the tweeter matches the pics of the SL2000, but the tweeters say otherwise. I'm going to attempt to post a couple pics and if you look at the front it says, "POLK AUDIO" and "Silver Coil Dome" and has horizontal lead wires. On the back it says, just under Polk Audio, it has SL-1000. Has anyone else seen this? Again, is it worth it? Where to go from here? I also posted this on anotherf3x78b7k7iwt.jpg
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,553
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    Definitely SL2000, yes the RD0194 would be a replacement and much better tweeter.
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    For sure RD0-194's! I swapped mine out a while back and the improvement was profound.

    And welcome tunafish to CP!
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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,500
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    Must've been using up the old labels. I've heard they were known to do things such as that :)
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  • michaeljhsda2
    michaeljhsda2 Posts: 2,185
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    Gardenstater wrote: »
    Must've been using up the old labels. I've heard they were known to do things such as that :)

    For sure!
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
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    It was a plastic SL1000. Gotta give Polk that.
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  • tunafish
    tunafish Posts: 3
    Thanks for the feed-back, I really appreciate it. Quite sure I need to replace the tweeter in both speakers to keep them matched and guessing that all agree it is worth fixing. I certainly do, the one working sounds pretty good. Thanks all!
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