Great to hear!

Brilliant reviews as always ...

ok here's a confession of sorts I built Linton kit when 17 I was disappointed its hard to forget that . 😅

Which Celestion? I have a recapped (Mundorf) pair of Ditton 33s and they’re amazing, especially with decent power. Even with an H/K 430 twin, they have lovely detail and soundstage.

ditto 😄

LoL, same here

😅

Yep , the wobbly table of anxiety is back.

Don't worry, it would probably improve the sound.

Would go through the floor to the basement and yet still operate flawlessly !

Spendor can b improved by simplifying the crossover into great speakers

Had mine from new.

@@allanthacker6072 Sound great with a Musical Fidelity A1!

I have the SP1 too.. just love it

Please don't tell him. I appreciate so much that he lifts some of the burden of shame from us Danes.

@@TheSoundrookie B&O have always had the reputation of style over function and lumped in with Bose as over expensive life style systems. In recent years with many of the products doubling in price since launch they seem to be aiming for the ultra rich as even their entry level speakers are now very much over priced. 36% price hike in a year when other manufacturers have increased their price only marginally above inflation. I recently got a pair of CX100 speakers with a Beocenter 9000. I would not have consider these in 1986 and certainly not from the specifications. The CX100 have more bass than the specifications indicate and for bookshelf speakers are very good. I had to replace the foam surrounds to the drive cones but they still work nicely. The Beocenter 9000 has an interface that performs like 21st technology, it isn't, the touch panel is not not what it appears but works like a modern touch screen device. It is elegant, understated and the sound quality was and remains worth the asking price. I would never have thought that from demonstrations in show rooms 30 years ago.

I call them all vikings from now on🤣

⁠@@geraldmcmullon2465B&O have and had research facilities that dwarf all but the largest speaker manufacturers. Their kit sounds a lot better than many give it credit for. I’ve have various bits for decades. The design is their choice and why not put some effort into it? I also use CX100s with the Cona sub in my home studio. Speakers on the wall either side of the display monitor. They sound ok - I must update the crossover. But I’d pay a lot more to get better sound and struggle to get a better form factor for my room. Plus they’re white and hang on a white wall

@@geraldmcmullon2465 I’m a BnO fan and I’ve been tracking the price rises opposed to bowers and Wilkins and BW have hiked them up but not to the extent of BnO . BnO signature sound is bloody lovely, yes I do buy it for aesthetics too and you pay extra for the design and the superior materials involved . But do I want a rack in my room with industrial cables everywhere with ugly speakers ? Nope so they offer a compromise and a damn good one at a price . They are in a different league to Bose , I’ve got a pair of rose gold Beolab 5s coming soon I could of got a Sonus Faber Olympica nice II for a little less or the III for a little more and these are of course used speakers and a rare edition hence price which will hold abd are absolutely mint . The guy who owns Sausalito audio in California said “ BnO can punch up their with the best of them “ and I beni e that to be true obviously there’s HIFI equipment that’s unbelievably expensive say 100 k just for a turntable or SF top speakers are what 750 k ????? But in general BnO are up there I have two TVs and two hifis by BnO much I bought used and I love it . I am however thinking about the Linn Selekt to pair up with the Beolab 5s I’m only a tradesman no rich person I just love their stuff and Stereo X

I just replaced a bad tweeter in my Beovox S 45-2 and what was in both unmolested, original cabs was a Philips AD-1062 T8 dome. Mid is a Seas 10FM and woofer is a Peerless 8”, not sure the model.

​@@emeeul But in that speaker on the video, that driver is Peerless. Both mids are Philips drivers, and bass driver is Seas.

@@intromortti I see that’s a different model sorry. They used a range of drivers from those three manufacturers. Very interesting, thank you.

@@emeeul Those Philips tweeters were very common here in Finland in 2 way compact stereo package speakers with a Philips woofer. I have many of them. Not the best possible sound, but with normal use they last forever. The 8" bass/mid drivers had an aluminum coil and rubber suspension.

You're welcome to have them. Actually you have my blessing to force them to move.

I happened upon a cheap pair of mint Ditton 33s in Maryland last year. Had never heard of them before then. They came with a recapped Fisher X-100-3. That was my lucky day. They sound great, though not really with that amp.

Exchanged my Diiton 15s for a pair of Castle Richmonds. Biggest hifi improvement I ever made forty years ago!

Lentek are unknown gems

I think your onto something euro stuff doesn't get the love it should that's where the bargains are I guess

Don’t forget the Braun version of the QUAD ELS57.

Never heard of it, cheers. It's called the LE1

I have one bc2 and basically its better

Where did you learn that? I have a Beomaster 2400 with a pair of S 45-2s and they sound great out in open. I’ll try them in a corner.

Ooh 😮 it’s beomaster amp you have! Well beovox 2400 is not made like other speakers from B&O, I don’t know about the s45, but beovox 2400 doesn’t sound any good in normal speaker placement! Beovox 2400 looks very similar to klipsch and other corner speakers from the 60’s. Maybe I should try get a pair of s45, there’s a lot of them here in Denmark…😃👍

Mathimos they are the most expensive though

I am a fan tighten the drivers up eh

Ye Danish company, Danish design. The electrics were usually assembled by Philips in Netherland.

well yes bc1 is superior dm4 smore mid orientated though 😜

@@stereoreviewx thanks for responding, appreciate the sharing.

JR149 and the three way JR150 are great speakers. I ended up with two pairs of JR149 speakers returned from my brother in law and my parents so got a third pair to use one as a centre channel. I powered them with a Meridian G55 five channel amplifier. I also had the super woofer but it would not work with the G55 because of the amplifier it used to filter the low frequencies from the passive speaker output of an amplifier. In buying the JR149 in 1978 and the MkII for my parents in 1983 I listened to the LS3/5A and Kef 101 and other book shelf speakers. The JR149, even with the same drive units had more bass and a better quality but did need a more powerful amplifier to drive them than the Kef 101 for example. I sold the JR set up to get Meridian floor standing D600 speakers which at that tie were cheaper than the JR149 on the second hand market. In 1979-80 I listened to a range of speakers including the Gale 401, Linn Isobarik and Meridian M1. I still have the M1 speakers, 44 years now.

I didn't like the rb range but older stuff yes

@@stereoreviewx I was looking for a Goodmans comment. I have two pairs of Mezzo SLs (one teak, one walnut, not the kitset version) from the 1970s and they sound great. So good in fact that I'll buy any others that I see, for other rooms of for backups / parts. I'd love to hear what you think of them and how they rate against these that you've reviewed. Cheers.

Not much to do - I think they’re more reliable than the amps and receivers. Replace some caps, maybe resistors and transistors, sometimes the surrounds are done (foam) but really that’s it. Maybe drivers with ferrofluid need changing out but I love old speakers - great value with very few parts.

Speakers last a long time and don't really need maintenance unless they've got leaky electrolytic capacitors in the crossover. For the most part they get damaged by owners giving them too much power. I've repaired some old B&W's, Dual's, Spendors etc... Apart from broken drivers, issues are: rattles in the box/things loose, damping/ gaskets disintegrated, cables/posts are corroded or gone green, loosed internal connections. Occasionally out of value resistors (Spendor). Rarely bad caps. All easily sorted without a professional tbh.

yes interested in all of those

Cult. Hype. Spin. They are detailed. Clear. Unforgiving and designed for small spaces, near field and mainly for human voice speech as to be delivered over FM radio (40-15000 Hz). For that they do an excellent job. Originally sold for around £189 in 1980. They lack the bass of the JR149 and even the Kef 101. JR149 needed 60 Watt amps to drive them, Kef 101 are more efficient. Domestic amps of this price range included the 30-40Watt Cambridge P80 and A&R A60. Why the £800-£1250 second hand I don't know. The £800 is roughly the inflation rate since 1980. The new price from Rogers is £2750. I doubt that can be justified by any measure. There are many speaker choices including powered and full active speakers for that price point. If the buyer listens to them first and compares with others it is their choice, their ears, their budget.

it had got a d in it 😛

Curiously though, they often still sound great. Most parts are repairable in ways newer speakers sometimes aren’t. I have speakers from the 60s that still sound great - I’m not sure what the design life was, but the cabs and drivers are often wonderfully constructed.

@@emeeulGood luck with an open voice coil on any of those drivers. You might be able to patch it up with a generic replacement, but a Mylar or Bextrene replacement recone kit, hmm. Key thing is to not pay much for the gear in the first place (getting a bit hard these days for the pieces that are worth having).

Disagree

@@jhuc2869 Probably. I have about a dozen pairs of vintage speakers and rotate them often. Hopefully a voice coil doesn’t go anytime soon. If so, I’ll have spare units to listen to.

@@emeeul Enjoy, but don’t overlook some of the newer gear as the sector is on the brink of ceasing to exist in any sort of mainstream way and needs its adherents to be forward looking as well as nostalgic (have had great results driving vintage alnico AR’s with a modern class d amp!!)

Kinda both init.

I do. As a Dane I wish they were Dutch.

There's no such thing as European sound. Typical German, Italian and French are all different. And since when is GB not Europe?

Of all the european spks, i like british sound signature best. There’s some magic in that bextrene cone.

From the 60 through the 70s there were some clear distinctions listening to British, Continental (mostly German), Japanese and USA designed speakers. More so than in the amplifiers or cassettes. Turntables also seemed to have distinct flavours. Some Japanese companies had the speakers designed and developed in the UK because of that difference in buyer preference. There were also distinct looks in the control panels of the electronics with the British classical designs less flashy, minimalistic (Quad, Lecson, Meridian, Naim, A&R, Cambridge Audio, Leak) and the German industrial designs from Telefunken, Grundig, Uher, Beyerdynamic, Blaupunkt, Canton, Visonik echoed by the Dutch Philips and even the Philips owned UK Pye. Very different today with modern designs from the likes of Elac and Dynaudio.

@@gaborozorai3714 I tend to agree now but not so sure back in the 70s. Telefunken and Philips and Grundig had a similar look distinct and sound compared to UK based hi-fi products matched by a difference in the sound. Quad, Linn, Meridian. Mission, A&R, Cambridge Audio where more minimalist in design. Japanese products had more knobs, sliders, dials and flashy VU meters in a large empty box.

@@geraldmcmullon2465 Sure, it was different back then. It was when audiophile hi-fi was born, sound quality above features and looks, and Britain played a massive role in that.

you suck tweeters