No sound on Macintosh SE

When you guys say "the plug", do you mean the end of the cable or the plug in the mother board? I assume the end of the cable...
 
Yeah, nothing. My multimeter doesn't register any sort of change either when I put the probes in the end of the cable or when I touch it to the + and - of the speaker itself. So maybe speaker is toast? Of course, my old, cheap multimeter is difficult to read. Can you confirm that I have the right setting on it?
 

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I think that setting should do. Touch the probes to each other and if you get a 0 or near 0 reading, then the meter works and your speaker is toast :(
 
what about the capacitors? I had the same issue with a SE/30, I'd closely check the capacitors and in case of doubt I would replace them all
 
Recap is a good place to start with a machine of this age for sure, but if the speaker isn't reading any impedence it's blown.

If the speaker isn't blown I would first reflow the logic board connector. However since it probably is, I would try to find any 4 or 8 ohm speaker laying around just to test for the boot beep. At that point you're looking at putting a connector on the temp speaker to test, or jumpering wires to the pins to hook it up.
 
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