About 8-10 year old
beautifully maintained speaker w/ no signs of deterioration anywhere on the speakers except for slight fading of small regions of the metal strip.
A rare unique speaker that consist of a 20.5 inch ribbon tweeter, close ported design with a single bass cone.
Biwireable bookshelf design that comes with a custom made sand filled speaker stand.
Each speaker is made with solid wood and weighs about 20kg.
Rarely seen in the second hand market as speaker has excellent depth reproduction and can produce sounds right to the slighest details.
Gives surprisingly robust and deep bass too.
Specs Dimensions: (H*W*D), 650mm (25.6") * 330mm (13") * 300mm (11.8") including 35mm (74") grille.
This excludes the stands that are about 550mm high.
Cabinet: Twin sealed enclosure in high density particle board with figure-of-8 internal braces in both enclosures.
Inset rear panel for extra cabinet strengthening Finish: Simulated black ash veneer
86 dB S.P.L. Reference sensitivity (free space at 2.83V/1m)
Power handling: sufficient Drivers: Celestion aluminium Ribbon midrange/treble unit (~55 cm long)
Celestion 200 mm (8") polyefine coned bass drive unit.
Cast chassis Crossover:Bi-wirable, 900Hz third order high and low pass Low frequency performance: -3 db at 66 Hz (free space conditions) -6 db at 49 Hz (free space conditions)
Was featured in audiophile magazine before,
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http://www.stereophile.com/images/masterindex/speakers.html Mint Castle Severn II speakers( REL, KEF, Monitor, bose, denon, yamaha, klipsch)
Wonderfully warm sounding speakers. Robust bass if amped correctly.
In beautiful Mahogany wood.. Condition 8.5/10. Had for five years.
C excellent reviews at
http://202.186.86.35/audio/story.asp?file=/1998/1/01castle and
http://www.hifichoice.co.uk/archive/perl/410_printreview.htm Selling for USD 1000. Email for pics.
Prefer to contact via email at johnckj@gmail.com, otherwise can contact at +65-91895214 for sincere buyers.
Item is in Singapore, buyer will pay for Shipping and insurance. Costs will depends on which freight company buyer prefers.
Accepts international payment by only paypal. Buyer can engage escrow serivce only at
www.escrow.com, fees will be paid by buyer. Item will only be shipped after full payment received unless escrow service engaged.
For any local deals, cash or bank transfer will be fine.
