I have a pair of speakers from college that have totally beat-up cabinets. These are old Philips speakers that had the typical wide front / narrow depth look popular in the 80's. However, the drivers look to be in very good shape with large 10" woofers. These speakers were never abused sound-wise, but from all the moving around the corners are completely destroyed and the vinyl is so badly worn that even the MDF is falling appart.

Would it make sense to purchase new cabinets from parts express or someplace similar and mount the drivers in there? These cabinets will likely not have the wide / narrow size that the old speakers had, but as long as the interior space is about the same, they should still be listenable, right? Or are these drivers only good in the old 1980 cabinets?

I'm not doing this to save money or anything. I'm just interested in easing my way into learning about speaker-building w/o having to worry about building cross-over networks and all the advanced stuff (at least not yet).