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81+ Kit: Story and Photographs

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In late 2021 and early 2022 I rebuilt two astonishingly similar pairs of speakers from island nations half a planet apart in the 1960s.

The first pair were EMI 711A speakers made in the UK, and the second these Pioneers from Japan. I highly recommend looking at what I show here for both if you are doing anything similar, since neither series of photos is technically complete - and I also have not added captions (yet).

These were exercises in turning very nicely-made cabinets with fairly inadequate speakers into representatives of the excellent HUMAN 81 family - the short version of the story is that I gutted them, made new inner front baffles for them, and installed those with my new parts.

Here are a large number of photos of the second set, the Pioneer CS-A31 speakers.