Celestion Ditton 551 Speakers Part 1

[@BARfastauto]

I have a pair (same type need minor maintenance ) will be watching it all . Thank you Haycross

[@danab7472]

What do you think about plugging the ports on a pair of these?

[@haycrossaudio5474]

Only if you need to. Maybe if the room has bass issues or is to small or there to near the wall? The port tuning is quite low from memory.

[@dittonworks]

Brown Nextel paint 🎨 horrible stuff..
Good video mate 👍

[@sunglelive]

Its BBC studio monitor or not?

[@haycrossaudio5474]

@@sunglelive no its a Celestion 551

[@alexzamfir7965]

It's interesting,I was expecting that the capacitance would decrease with aging but it seems it's the opposite.

[@haycrossaudio5474]

They tend to increase in value. Just the nature of electrolytic caps. The esr value is the other factor. That increases to.

[@alexzamfir7965]

@@haycrossaudio5474 I see. As I don't have a device to measure capacitance,from your experience should I replace the quality film capacitors (tweeter and midrange signal path) from a 40 years speaker that sounds fine to me ? The electrolytics will be replaced of course. Thank you.