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Post Subject: Re: Suitable amplifierPosted by guy sergeant on: 7/1/2006
What you say may be true. I'm not sure there was an amplifier available in the mid to late 1980's that would have been suitable for these. They did get good reviews but I suspect that some of this was due to awe inspired by the technical achievement of making the cabinet and the laser interferometry images. It was almost as though some reviewers were afraid to criticise them. Presumably they found amplifiers that they felt were suitable. I seem to recall Krell amps being used but I didn't like those either with the Celestions (KSA50 or KSA100) or with any other speakers. Ah I understand now.... I was probably just using the wrong speakers!!!
If there was a suitable amp then, I certainly didn't find it. It did make me question the wisdom of making such a thing (clever cabinet or not) if there wasn't an amp that could make it work. I'm not even sure a suitable (commercially made) amp exists now. Even if you could make or have made an amp to squeeze some life from them I'm sure that amp would sound much better on more sensitive speakers anyway.
I always preferred Peter Snell's original Type K design which was a smallish two way IB with relatively low cost Vifa drivers but which gave far more life and colour to music than I could ever imagine the Celestions producing.
I look forward to hearing of your further adventures with them and must admit that if I found a pair I'd enjoy putting a Revelator tweeter in and trying to find a 6" driver I liked. I imagine, given what you said earlier, you'd be trying to reduce the LF bandwidth but this may be throwing away the benefit of the cabinet design. I don't know.
rgs,
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