{"id":690,"date":"2018-05-20T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2018-05-20T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T15:10:04","slug":"very-cheap-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/very-cheap-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Cheap Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Castle and B&W for \u00a310<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These two pairs of speakers were bought in 2015 for just \u00a310<\/p>\n

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Both were purchased early in the morning from local car boot sales.<\/p>\n

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Castle Kendal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first to be acquired were the floor standing Castle Kendal. These are beautiful speakers with a real wood veneer finish. They hark from the days when Castle speakers were proudly manufactured in Yorkshire in the North of England. These are now connected to my Denon UD-M30 mini system in the family lounge. They actually take up the same space as the original Denon bookshelf speakers on stands. At 6:30 in the morning as the man pulled them from his van, he took just \u00a36 for them. I didn’t bother to haggle.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later I bought a pair of these.<\/p>\n

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Bowers & Wilkins DM600i.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were lurking under a table on the floor. The vendor first asked for \u00a34. He explained that one of them was very thin sounding, with no bass. I was thinking possibly a lose wire, which would take half an hour to fix, or maybe a damaged bass driver, which would be uneconomical to repair. For \u00a34? What the hell. Before I could pay the man, he asked me if I would just take them off his hands for \u00a32. Rude not to, I thought.<\/p>\n

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DM 600i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fault was very simple. These speakers have two sets of terminals for bi-wiring. The bridging copper straps necessary for single wiring were missing from one speaker. He simply hadn’t connected the base driver terminals. A couple of inches of decent speaker cable soon saw things right.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later I bought a pair of Gale stands for the B&W for just \u00a32. So, total outlay of just 10 for two fantastic pairs of speakers. These are the speakers that myself and my family use on a day to day basis. So far nothing better has turned up at the boot sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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