I have a Crosley Musicone speaker, for which I intend to place a pm speaker inside the cone. Would an 8 ohm 2" pm speaker be acceptable here, with an output transformer normally driving a 3 ohm speaker?

Has anyone straightened the paper cone itself to get back to its conical shape? The paper has some big buckles in it.

You can use steam to get cone "wet" then press flat... or if your cone is stitched together..you can remove stitching...dampen cone lightly lay plastic sheets on top and use weights...allow to dray...and stitch back together again

:I have a Crosley Musicone speaker, for which I intend to place a pm speaker inside the cone. Would an 8 ohm 2" pm speaker be acceptable here, with an output transformer normally driving a 3 ohm speaker?
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:Has anyone straightened the paper cone itself to get back to its conical shape? The paper has some big buckles in it.
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I've not seen one of these units "in person", and various photos of it don't reveal much about how it was constructed... chances are the cone was cut from a flat sheet of paper, and lapped/glued at one point to form a shallow conical dish. The outer edges of the cone appear to be attached to the frame with narrow strips of paper or possibly cloth, also glued around the periphery of the cone.

Anyway, where I'm going with this is that it appears that this speaker design can't be easily disassembled, so it will probably be necessary to fabricate a new cone if the original one is damaged. Trying to "smooth out" the existing paper cone while it is in place in the frame seems like it wouldn't have much likelihood of success.

Making/installing a new paper cone wouldn't be a tough job, but the downside is that you would lose the cool designs printed on the original.