They might have been, I bought them at an estate sale a few months back for my daughters system. I had them on a Marantz 2230 and they sounded off and I realized they had no tweet and the woofers were just going crazy even at very low volume, but they put out muffled sound. I moved them to an old Onkyo just to double check same thing. I shelved them and ordered new caps for both and recapped one of them after I Ohm the drivers they checked out OK. Tested the one out on my downstairs setup after the recap and same thing. There are 2 ceramic resistors, a 2 inductors and another component I haven't ID'd yet that it looks like the leads from the banana plugs feed to first. I check all of them for continuity while still on the board, I haven't had a chance to unsolder them yet and test off the board yet.