Author Topic: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend  (Read 6093 times)

Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #25 on: 29 November, 2017, 04:22:49 pm »
I think VOX AC30s were made on Canvey for a while. And I'm talking proper AC30s, not the reissue nonsense. I have one, but I lent it to an AWOL friend. I'll get it back one day - even if it is the most impractical amplifier ever made....
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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #26 on: 30 November, 2017, 08:02:34 am »
... Celestion ... in the late 90s (a little after I left the company).

I didn't know you worked for Celestion; I do now. Still centrepiece in my home studio are the Celestion Ditton 25s I bought when I was 18, some 41 years ago. I still love their sound.

Mine are still in use!  Ditton 15s IIRC.  Dunno how I afforded them as a newly-married man!

Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #27 on: 05 December, 2017, 07:08:27 pm »
Monitor Audio is in Rayleigh, which is a few miles from Southend.

They bought Roksan, and moved them to the same site.

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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #28 on: 06 December, 2017, 08:38:39 pm »
Celestion do still do drivers though. There's also Genesis (Gordon) in Southend but he closed up shop in the late 2000s.
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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #29 on: 18 December, 2017, 06:57:08 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=HJHul8HgbPs


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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #30 on: 18 December, 2017, 08:29:30 pm »
I've got a Ruark R2 in the bedroom and an R4 in the kitchen. Both lovely sounding units somewhat marred by having really awkward remote controls. Living room has a Naim Uniti driving Linn speakers, so that's my only properly British system.
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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #31 on: 19 December, 2017, 08:14:54 am »
It would appear that my Monitor Audio centre speaker in the Great Hall hails from Rayleigh, while the Tannoy rears are from Scotlandshire.  This goes some way to allaying the disappointment of finding fine upstanding BRITISH names like Mission and Wharfedale are the property of Johnny FOREIGN.

I'm not about to start dismantling the furniture to find out where the 30-odd year old JPWs were made.
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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #32 on: 19 December, 2017, 09:56:06 am »
I'm not about to start dismantling the furniture to find out where the 30-odd year old JPWs were made.

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Re: Expensive audio kit made in Saarfend
« Reply #33 on: 19 December, 2017, 11:10:38 am »
There's been a pair of those pushing out the tunes on my desk for the past 22 years.
^ That's exactly what I was told by the man in Richer Sounds when I bought them.

ETA Tannoy used to have a couple of premises in West Norwood when I was a sprog.