Add this to my Civil War post ...

[lyman]

We had a Zenith tv as kids. Remember adjusting the horizontal? I had Acoustic Research speakers(big ones) in the front room for years. They were awesome, but I pulled the covers off one day and found the foam cushions around the edge of the woofers had just dissolved over the years.

mine did the same,

first heard a set at a friends place,
she had a room mate that had a set of speakers that were at least 5' tall, and sounded magnificent,

I could not afford a similar pair, but did buy the best I could from them,