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what's your power amp?

Generally, all Bextrene cones will be coated (sometimes on the rear of the cone), early days this was brush painted, later some were sprayed. In my...

Things have gone downhill with Marco away that wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes

I'll see when they arrive, I might leave them as they are. Having had a look at DM4's specs I see that some Bextrene cones were laminated so...

I can collect tomorrow for £230

A SHORT BUT ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ALBUM BY VAN HALEN!!! PLAYING REMASTERED CD. I STILL HAVE ALL THE ORIG VINYLS FROM BACK IN THE DAY AND THEY STILL...

To my mind your best bet is to replace the "re-coned" bass units with original DM2 or DM2a bass units. I believe that the Radford Monitor was a...

I think your interest might be coming back Grant

DM4 uses a Bextrene unit, I believe polypropylene coned bass units were pioneered after the DM4 and DM2 were designed.

As far as I know, B&W did not use a polypropylene cone. In my view, the bass unit in the video has a fault. I have similar units that don't do this.

Still it doesn't explain as to why the "core tube" (thanks for that) hits the magnet. I've never seen a speaker doing this. It's either that the...

they've been seen by an audio engineer. You can also see in the video here that the surface of is smooth, bextrene is covered in damping paint so...

This needs dealing with or will have to go.

I think that may indicate that the system bass resonance with that driver in use is too low. In a reflex cabinet, port tuning may help, but with a...

What makes you certain that the cones are polypropylene? I have tried the Vifa units as replacements for the BC1 bass units (suggested by Wilmslow...

Yes it was for me too. I was only able to get the A2 when Celestion got bought out and Hyper-Fi were selling the A2 and the A3 new at a third of list...

SOLD

These were stuck in storage during some diy, things have moved on and remembered they were under the spare bed I'm not going to do anything with them...

...and a 3-2 win v partick in a friendly. mostly youth with some 1st teamers. changed 11 at half time. mcpake got the winner

Managed to find out the power limit for the two: Coles 4001G - 120W Celestion HF1300 - 60W

Indeed, they are definitely lighter. I'm a beginner so don't know whether the polypropylene driver would be a good replacement considering the fact...

some andy goram..

I will join you in that toast a little later on.

Tamnavullin Sherry cask... £22 in Morrisons.. here's to Andy...

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Carry On Jack, 1964.. A young and pretty Juliet Mills gets here only Carry on role(she was 3 months pregnant but didnt tell anyone for fear of losing...