Allison One speakers

Thanks for the advise on re-conditioning. I plan to have the woofers redone by Bill LeGal at Millersound. He is familiar with these and I have had nothing but good results with all the work he has done for me in the past. Also appreciate the advise on replacing the tweeters, mids. I am likely to leave these as is and will only consider replacing with something non-original if they go out at some point in the future. Does anyone have an opinion about restoring or upgrading the crossover (worth replacing anything due to age? or leave alone until they go bad?) Will likely get into playing shape and decide if I will keep them or not, and if I keep them if I want to go to any additional effort to upgrade the crossovers etc. They will be compared to a pair of Alon model V that I currently have and will drive with an Aragon 4004 MkII power amp and a preamp to be named later (any suggestions?) which provides ample power for most speakers I could throw at it. Another post asked how much I paid for these and the answer is $300 - in hind sight a bit too much given what I have learned here but if I end up liking them (I do have a larger space that will allow me to set up as recommended here) will not be so bad. Anyway, thanks again for the information and recommendations.

$300 is not bad at all if the condition is acceptable, and no way would I think that's the BB price of the 'reissues' (which should be much higher it seems to me), so even if the year-listing mistakenly confused the two, the price-listing probably didn't.

I do recall seeing somewhere that many owners have upgraded caps and wiring and such, even installing binding posts, but I have no personal experience with these mods, do a search (Web not Agon) and you might find something.

As for finding original replacement drivers, the same or very similar drivers were also used in some later, less costly models of the original Allison company that sold in larger quantities, such as the "CD_#" model line. (Mids and tweeters would probably be easier to locate, since most of the woofers used in these smaller model were less than 10".) As I recall there was actually a second ownership of the original company, consecutive with Roy Allison's ownership, that continued to use the same in-house drivers for those models that featured them. Then that company eventually went defunct, and later the 'reissue' company or whatever you want to call it was started by yet a third ownership, but those speakers shared no parts with the originals and used conventional OEM drivers. The original firm also came out with a fancier, 'new and improved' successor model to the Ones, that expanded on the same core design principles, called the IC-20 ("IC" stood for Image Control).

76-79 sell and buy more modern speakers or keep and use in a garage

The party's always better in the garage dude. Either Vernneal has never heard a correctly functioning pair of Allison:Ones, or he has no sense of history. Might as well use that Klipschorn for a doghouse while you're at it...

I agree with Zaikesman. I owned Allison Ones 1976-1991 and studpidly, idiotically literally threw them away when I bought Wilson Watt Puppies, at the same time I threw away my LPs. Double Dumb. I didn't throw away my Allison Three's however and they still work perfectly, although the grilles are gone. I had the drivers re-foamed. In 2008 I bought Allison Fours (2001 models)and they are superb. The Allisons may not be modern, but they work better against walls trhan most other speakers. Enjoy the Ones, they are superb speakers!