Celestion Ditton 44

[Macca]

Dropped on big time today with some absolutely bea-ay-uytiful Ditton 44. One owner from new. Except for a slight blemish in the botom corner of the back of one cab and a little fade in the venier on the top of the other they are minter than mint. Drivers look like they were installed yesterday.

Got 'em back tonight took one snap and the camera died. Will do some more tomorrow as the teak cabs are stunning. I went to collect them walked into the room and nearly died to see them - it looked like they had just been taken out of the boxes brand new.

Anyway enough of my yacking; here is the one dodgy picture I managed to take while there was still daylight and charge in the camera (just to whet the appetite):

[Rare Bird]

Nice one Martin

[John]

Enjoy Martin

[Marco]

Ooooh... More Celest-fest! And so another Celestionista joins the fold

Fire 'em up and let us know what you think, then take a decent photo of the buggers!

Marco.

[Macca]

Hi Marco

What do you use for speaker cable/connectors on the 66 as these have tiny, tiny speaker terminals that will only accpet spade connectors, they won't take bare wire even?

[Marco]

Mmm... That's interesting, Martin. On both my 15XRs and 66s, there are (admittedly very basic) but decent enough speaker terminals that take any kind of modern banana plugs.

Do your 44s not look like this at the back?





Note the type of terminals shown, which are also the same as on my 66s. Banana plugs simply fit straight in

Marco.

[Macca]

The terminals on mine are tiny - the plastic cover that unscrews is about 5mm across and the pillar it sits on is about 5mm deep so practically impossible to get even 79 strand bound around it. They are all original so I don't know how your 66 are different. I will have to get some spade connectors before I can try them I think

[Marco]

Yup, that is a strange one, unless yours are super-early ones which might have been fitted with different terminals. Andr'e would know

What was the guy using, in terms of speaker cable, who you bought them from - bell wire??

It's quite easy though to fit new terminals

Marco.

[Macca]

Yeah bell wire with spades I think but he had them in storage for 30 years and was using Tannoys and B&W 601 s2 instead

[Marco]

You'll defo need to fit decent speaker terminals, not least because you won't be able to use any decent cable otherwise.

Still, that's a minor problem. The good news, apart from the fact that they look in mint condition, is that the early ones tend to have the best bits inside, crossover-wise, so I wouldn't worry too much

Can you see what the serial numbers are?

Marco.