Right on man. Unbelievably, the MF+ spade terminal was only partially on the spade lug on the crossover. These things snap positively and pseudo-lock when fully pushed home. there is no way this thing came lose from vibration or anything else. It had to leave manufacturing with this defect and it didn't manifest until 8 yrs later! haha.
Sadly, i had to waste $100 on a new driver to finally go looking at the crossover. What say you guys, should I put the old driver back in? My ears can't tell any difference but I do know these speakers were generally pair matched to within 0.5 db.
Phenominal speakers btw, even with the midrange out on one of them they sounded better than 90% of the speakers I've heard. With both channels working, pink floyd never sounded so damn good!