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In Reply to: The sad tale of Celestion. posted by klausDK on April 2, 2008 at 06:38:59:
What is also sad is that I used to own a pair of SL600 in the 1980s. I paid nearly $2000 for it. During those times, this was an exorbitant amount to pay for a pair of speakers.
They were as close to hi-fi magic as I have ever experienced in my hi-fi life. Even my current Magico's, which cost 15 times more, do not elicit that sense of amazement (I was much younger and more impressionable then.)
I can remember how delighted and amazed I was at how the aerolam cabinets did not sound like they were present at all. The music just hung there in all its glory as the speakers vanished. Sitting on the requisite FOundation stands, they provided many many hours of musical pleasure, even though it was just early CD digital from my Meridian Pro MCD.
What was not fun were the Telarc bass drum whacks, which would pop the woofers.
One speaker toppled over once and the copper tweeter got dented. I managed to replace it by buying a spare tweeter.
They also had their own subwoofers, although I never got those.
I remember when the SL700 was released, I felt dismayed that my speakers were superseded. I envied those who had the SL700 with the aluminium tweeter and the biwiring capability. To make up for it, I removed all the absorbent material in the SL600, like Jimmy Hughes of What Hifi recommended. Indeed, the Sl600s now sounded more dynamic, like he said it would. However, they now sounded more coloured and did not seem to disappear as well.
How I wish I had known that the SL600's sounded better than the SL700's.
Eventually, after twenty years, the fuzzy finish which Celestion thought would add a touch of class, and perhaps damp the cabinet resonances, began melting into a sticky ooze. I sold them to an enterprising 2nd hand dealer who, I'm certain, found a way to re-finish them. I wonder where they are now. They are the only pair of speakers I've bought and sold and am still in love with.
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Follow Ups
- RE: The sad tale of Celestion. - DkB 09:24:36 04/02/08 (2)
- Very similar experience with the Ohm F - Robert C. Lang 20:09:42 04/02/08 (1)
- Interesting, Robert. Love is blind. Haha! NT - DkB 08:20:40 04/03/08 (0)
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