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Mark,

George has made some fine recommendations on soldering irons, I've used lots of Weller's in my past life as a hardware design engineer in the networking industry and they work just dandy.

Since you mention that you are using it for replacing driver's I presume that means you are soldering fairly heavy gauge speaker wire to the driver's terminals, yes? In that case, I would highly recommend a fairly high-wattage iron. As the heavy speaker wire is going to act as a significant heat sink, you want an iron that can quickly heat up the work surface to allow the solder to flow, without heating up too much length of the wire itself. A lower wattage iron will eventually get things hot enough to solder, but may overheat the finer gauge wire of the voice coil in the driver.

Just some thoughts...

Dan