Following on from the comments on a separate thread - I was interested to hear a few comments about the far less well famed SR1s. Having witnessed a pair of SR3s put out a staggeringly loud & full sound for their size, we picked up 4 S/H SR1s & an SRC1 controller to give us an ultra portable FOH & foldback setup (don't run bass & drums through the PA). Anime ai no kusabi sub indo. Ai no Kusabi is a haunting tale of twisted love in a world where one’s status in society is based on the color of their hair. The Blondies live in a clean, technologically advanced environment while those with darker hair, often called Mongrels, are forced to live in slums rife with violence. The SR1 is known throughout the world for offering consistent performance in installed and portable applications. Full range 8' system with a compact. It's a joy to be able to load the whole PA, amps mixer & stands in the back of an Astra hatchback. Certainly my experiences of 802s have been great in voice situations, but disappointing on many occaisions with music. The SR1s really do seem to cut it well by themselves with no sub. And I do feel that their controller is a corking bit of kit. Those SR3s that impressed me so much have done over 10 years duty in a church with plenty of level abuse and still run sweet as a nut. Anyone know why Celestion seem to be dropping these with no real replacement, or have they just not been able to get buyin to the non-standard market? We have 20 SR-1's in our hire stock and we've found them excellent for the samller stuff. We also use a double stacked pair on top of a 2x 15' Sub pair side for a small band/DJ system and that too works well. However we have the older SRC-1 controllers which do the speaker sensing and when using it driving into 4 Ohms (I.e. Pair per side) it tends to shut down a little early. We tend to use an XTA DP-224 to control the larger SR-1 systems because of this. The problem we've had in the past with 802's is their very wide and un-predictable dispersion pattern, especially a problem when using radio mics when speaker positioning isn't ideal. We re-did an installation that had 802's & 301's in it, the budget didn't stretch to new speakers on the re-fit. For various reasons we sacked the 802 controller, but the EQ we had to program into the digital processor we were using to make them sound right was scary! We have 20 SR-1's in our hire stock and we've found them excellent for the samller stuff. We also use a double stacked pair on top of a 2x 15' Sub pair side for a small band/DJ system and that too works well. ![]() However we have the older SRC-1 controllers which do the speaker sensing and when using it driving into 4 Ohms (I.e. Pair per side) it tends to shut down a little early. We tend to use an XTA DP-224 to control the larger SR-1 systems because of this. The problem we've had in the past with 802's is their very wide and un-predictable dispersion pattern, especially a problem when using radio mics when speaker positioning isn't ideal. We re-did an installation that had 802's & 301's in it, the budget didn't stretch to new speakers on the re-fit. For various reasons we sacked the 802 controller, but the EQ we had to program into the digital processor we were using to make them sound right was scary! One thing to note with the SR1s is that the older SR1s are 250W and while the new ones are 350w the output is 3db less (or was last time I looked). Celestion 3 Until recently, there were two broad categories of Celestion speakers: the DL series and the SL series. The DL series speakers are fairly conventional, low-to-moderate-cost systems of different sizes, with prices ranging from $330 to $929 a pair. Speakers in the SL series, on the other hand, are considerably more expensive ($950 to $3,000 a pair), and all of them are housed in cabinets of similar size and shape. They have a well-deserved reputation for quality among serious audiophiles in Britain and the U.S. A bookshelf system that weighs 8-1/4 pounds and measures only 12-1/4 inches high, 7-1/4 inches wide, and 8-5/8 inches deep, the Celestion 3 has a wooden cabinet finished in black and a removable black cloth grille. When the grille is removed, the speaker resembles a half-size version of Celestion's SL-6Si, with what appears to be a 5-inch paper-cone woofer operating in a sealed enclosure and a 1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter. The binding posts recessed into the rear of the cabinet accept banana plugs, stripped wire ends, or open lugs. Although no specifications or technical details on the Celestion 3 were furnished with the speakers, we were able to derive most of the relevant information by direct measurement. Price: $250 a pair. Lab Tests We placed the Celestion 3 speakers on 26-inch stands for testing. Like most small speakers, they are designed to give their best performance in a free-standing installation, not too close to a room-boundary surface. The averaged room response was smooth and uniform over most of the audio range, varying less than ±2 dB from 500 to 20.000 Hz. The close-miked woofer response reached a maximum in the 100- to 300-hz range, falling at 12 dB per octave below 100 Hz. There was also a slight rolloff above 300 Hz, although the close-miked measurements are not valid above a few hundred hertz.
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