My Phantom voyage

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Here's what @Jean-Marie hopefully didn't hold his breath for. 
   
Yep, really exciting! A brown cardboard box. 

Inside a lot of bubble wrap and a bit too much space emerged. 
    Under the bubble wrap you might see what's coming.

A beaten up Phantom Gold! Who would have guessed? 
    I really like the power cord arrangement. I might make it permanent. 

The most important thing when shipping an item is to fill all voids and extra space so the item isn't thrown around inside the box and getting the full force of abusive/normal parcel handling. That's especially important when you send a really heavy and brittle high tech egg half around the globe without the original packaging. If you fail to do so the customer might get this
   

when he actually ordered this.
   

The customer could even get a bit cross when the professional packaging is rubbish and next day shipping turns out to be next week shipping. 

So, there you are. In fairness to the seller I did get a partial refund but it did not cover the potential cost of the damage. 

Why did I buy another beaten up Phantom? I presume you've already guessed it, but the plan is not only to gut it for internals and put them in the Frankenphantom, making a working Phantom Gold. I would like to put some more elbow grease into it and see what's actually mendable with a couple of bricks, a spanner and some swearing. I even might buy a dent remover thingy too. The goal is to not make it worse, and that should be achievable when both voice coils for the woofers are hitting the magnets, or is it called motors in English?, and the tweeter is ported DIY style.

Wish me luck, I'm bound to succeed in reaching my goal and fail mending the speaker.