I agree, the Acoustat panels are surprisingly tough. Do you KNOW that they are damaged, or just assuming that the water ruined them? It sounds like your Model 8 (rare and awesome speakers) got wet on the middle of the speaker where the four 8" panels live, while the outer four 9" panels stayed dry? I would guess a roof leak came down from above and the water stayed in the middle and ran down the 8" panels to the bottom? I suppose if they were turned on when the water came into play that they could get damaged but don't know for sure. You may be OK. My next thought is that if the panels got wet the transformer interfaces could also have gotten wet. Is this the case?
So you guys want to know everything.
I am one of those rare people that actually managed to kill Acoustat panels.
Context; I use 4 Krell KMA 200 & Wadia 861 for playback.
The amps put out a lot of power.
Out of the blue, one day I wanted to hear the difference between my Wadia & a pre-amp.
The sound is extremely clean at any volume level, usually I crank it up. Not realizing how high the volume was, I pulled out an audio cable and all hell broke loose.
One amp burned (
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid-state/142011-kma-200-output.html?postid=1799228#post1799228) , one Acoustat interface damaged.
I updated & upgraded the amps, fixed the interface, afterward one speaker sounded substantially lower.
A little while later there was a leak in the house, of all places it leaked on top of the weak speaker.
Now the speaker sounded extremely low, my guess; in the beginning may be one panel was dead, now they are all dead.
Yes, I took the speaker apart and tested each panel individually with a known, good, interface.
To hear anything you need to put your ear next to the panels and raising the volume doe not change output level in any of the eight panels.
Anybody can teach me how to bring them back alive, I am all ears.
Thank you.