Acoustic Reaserch Speaker Repair

Hiya,
So I recently decided to try and restore this pair of Acoustic Research AR8s speakers, They’re a really nice pair of 70’s speakers originally designed for Rock music.

As you can see the 8" woofers (both speakers look almost identical, even in damage) have very brittle and dissolved surrounds.

So I replaced the woofer surrounds and so;
If anyone’s interested in learning more about it I’d be happy to post a more complete repair log and info on my method :).

Before Repair:

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Cheers,
Nic