New lease on life for a pair of Ohm F's

That is very cool. The Ohm F is a great speaker. Spend the money to restore it correctly. You need a very powerful amplifier for this speaker.

One more,
Dale Harder
HHR exotic speakers
http://www.hhr-exoticspeakers.com/

Well, the options are out there.

1) rebuild what you have if you can find someone to do it right for a price you can afford

2) Dale Harder rebuild or new drivers

3) OHM upgrade

If it were me, I would not dismiss the OHM upgrade option until I did an in home audition. You could have brand new well supported speakers that have more in common with the old Fs than not + are competitive with modern SOTA speaker lines, yet still totally unique.

BTW OHM was a Tech Hifi house brand. John Strohbeen, the current owner and main technical guru at OHM, used to own Tech Hifi.

I always preferred all the old OHMs sold at THF, including the conventional box designs like the L and H in particular over most other brands sold, including EPI, though EPI was probably a strong second in the pack with a few others.

My main speakers these days are a pair of OHM f5 series 3 which are recent generation OHM Walsh CLS drivers mounted on refurbed OHM F cabinets that I picked up for a fraction of retail price from OHM a few years back taking advantage of sale price for refurbed units + full trade in value for older OHMs.

I also run a smaller pair of OHM 100 series 3 drivers mounted on refurbed Walsh 2 cabinets, a pair of Dynaudio Contour 1.3mkII monitors, and a pair of small TRiangle Titus XS monitors. I also still run a refurbished pair of OHM Ls, my original first good speakers from TEch Hifi years ago that I upgraded myself with drivers and parts from OHM and elsewhere, and a really small pair of Realistic Minimus 7 speakers out on my deck during warm weather months.

Zavato - Just as a point of interest, while the current Ohms are not full-range omnis, they can be ordered configured for something close. The directional tweeter rolls in above ~7kHz, so in this respect, the current Ohm Walsh line is not fully omnidirectional. But the attenuation to the rear of the cans is accomplished with a physical damper. IIRC, John can provide drivers without this damping by special order, meaning they would be true omnis up to around 7kHz.

I will second the repair from Millersound as well.
I also had a pair of these and will agree that a high quality solid state amp will drive these speakers extremely well.