My 14-year old daughter had a party and blew out my (formerly fabulous) Cerwin-Vega D-5 Digital Series speakers, which I have lovingly owned for 25 years. The "rubber" lining around the woofers had become brittle, and I was perhaps lax in having it replaced. But now, that rubber lining is completely shot and I believe the woofers are complete history. Any signal going through the speakers now sounds like crinkled paper being sawed. Even worse than that, frankly.

Should I even consider repairing them? Myself? Should I just accept that I got 25 years of great sound and move on to a new pair? Might the tweeter also be shot?

The problem is: the case is beautiful and in perfect shape. We had our wall library cabinet built around these speakers, and I hate to think that I'd be shopping for new speakers with cabinet size (75cm tall X 50 cm wide) as a primary criterium.