Keswick Audio - blueprint anyone tell me about them?

[littlest hobo]

Took a punt on a pair of Keswick Audio Blueprint point one speakers over the weekend and pick them up tomorrow. I haven't been able to find out much about them but hoping they will be a worthwhile step up from the Castle Kendal floorstander's I've been using for the past couple of years.

Has anyone had any experience with them/ tell me a little more about the brand? Should look pretty with my NAS deck though.

Ta

[mr sneff]

I can remember the Keswick Audio brand getting pretty good reviews in Audiophile back in the day :)

[Beobloke]

Keswick Audio were a relatively short-lived British company and the man behind the company was Dean Hartley, who is now the Technical Director of Monitor Audio. I've not heard a pair of their loudspeakers but they're rather good, by all accounts, and very nicely made.

[Marco]

They're very nice speakers, Claire, so well done! Do you have any pictures of them (perhaps a link to the ebay ad, if you bought them from there), or any provided by the seller? :)

Marco.

[littlest hobo]

Collected them last night, they're slightly larger than I'd anticipated and we struggled to fit them in the car. Extremely pleased with my purchase, they certainly make quite a statement visually and the sound is beautiful, it's very open and detailed with a healthy dollop of bass on the side! I'm now enjoying a day off to sit and listen to them, so very happy indeed. I took some arty shots but unfortunately I can no longer access my flickr account so, attached are photo's from the ebay listing:

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Blue-print-point-one-Floor-standing-speaker-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMDYz/z/wUoAAOxygj5Sm50E/$_1.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Blue-print-point-one-Floor-standing-speaker-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMDYz/z/o0IAAOxy3zNSm50x/$_1.JPG
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Blue-print-point-one-Floor-standing-speaker-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMDYz/z/~bcAAOxyzi9Sm50Z/$_1.JPG

I had to own up to him-outdoors that I'd made a rash purchase 2 weeks before Christmas. Glad I did, I would never have been able to sneak them in and pretended they were the same old Castle's I've been playing music through for the past couple of years! I'll wait a while before I mention that my amp. is now the weakest-link :eyebrows: