Recent content by ditton works

I’ve done history of the SL series on YouTube

Hello all you Celestion fans. Ok been busy repairing and tweaking a few bits and bobs. Thought I’d share some pics. Celestion 300’s needed bass driver surrounds and tweeters were mashed in! Replaced the duel material surrounds with single piece rubber ones. Replaced tweeters and upgraded the...

Not bad speakers, can be light on bass, two versions of these.. series 1 polyopine bass driver and sealed cabs, series 2 paper cone and ported design

Thanks for watching.. yes those Kingstons have been for sale for a long time.. too much money and too far away for me to buy them

SL700se in action

Video how to fix titanium tweeter dents

Video on quick way to fix HF1000.. note… should be 4ohm for Ditton 15xr 22,33,UL6 and UL8’s..

Video on Celestion 100’s

Video on the Celestion Kingston

Spendor speaker shootout

Video review on Spendor S8e’s

Apparently the Classic 2/3’s need approx 50 hours run in time. I’m up to about 20 hours now. I’m very pleased with how they sound, here’s another little demo clip

Hi all. just waiting for Fortis stands to arrive and these new beasties will be singing. Classic 2/3. they definitely need running in and probably aren’t ideal on the Heybrook stands I’ve been using for SP2/2’s but I’m really pleased.

Err nope. Glue failed pole slipped, its only screwed in from the top, holding the top plate to the chassis. The bottom plate with the pole piece is glued on. Over driven bass units will get very hot, thus the glue gave up. that bass unit was from a SL600, the Aerolam cabinet would have been...