Have you heard a pair of these?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1610541019...84.m1423.l2649
They are like mini Ditton 15s and proportioned rather like elongated LS3/5As. I've had a couple of pairs and they sound amazing for their size. A rare speaker now.
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Have you heard a pair of these?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1610541019...84.m1423.l2649
They are like mini Ditton 15s and proportioned rather like elongated LS3/5As. I've had a couple of pairs and they sound amazing for their size. A rare speaker now.
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Does anyone have any experience of the 3000 and 5000 series with the ribbon tweeters? Always looked like a nice idea but they disappeared off the scene very quickly. Any good
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Never heard a pair of those Ditton 120s but they look interesting. I take it they sound bigger than they look, like the 15s? i could easily smuggle a pair of those into the house. The box & woofer remind me a bit of the Videoton Minimax 2.
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Ahh my first pair of speakers excellent little things should of kept themOriginally Posted by walpurgis
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The Ditton 120, like the Ditton 15, do sound bigger than you'd expect. They use basically the same drivers as the now much sought after Ditton 10, but in elongated cabinets to accommodate the ABR unit.
As for amps, well, that's down to how much you intend to spend! As I've said on AOS before, in my collection of amplifiers, I have a couple of Monarchy Audio Class A power amps, an SM-70 and an SM-70 Pro and they amaze me every time I use them, they sound beautiful. Grab one if you see one. Check the online reviews.
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Just spotted on eBay, one of the most unusual Celestion speakers. The Bang & Olufsen 5700, that's not a mistake, they really are Celestions. Look at the drivers, it's like a Ditton 66 with ten inch bass unit and ABR. And yes, they sound remarkable, I've heard them.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bang-Olufs...item27d3514090
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I won the auction for the 120's that you linked to, I must say they are really nice sounding speakers, they were a bit marked so I rubbed them down and waxed them today. They sound to my ears like a scaled down pair of 25's, you still get the bass but it's not as deep as the larger Celestions which isn't altogether a bad thing in average size rooms.
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These are 25's to show you the difference in size
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That's good. I know what they are capable of, I had a couple of pairs. Nobody seems to have caught onto them yet, the smaller Ditton 10s are changing hands for hundreds.
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Geoff............I've sold 15 pairs of bookshelf speakers of various brands over the last year, I can honestly say along with a pair of AR 18's they are the best sounding small speaker I can recall hearing (at a sensible price). They seem to be able to relay music in a more realistic and believable way unlike most bookshelf speakers I've used that seem never to do everything right.
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