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I had these in the mid 90's, driven by a Pioneer A300 amp fed by a Marantz CD player. I used these on stands in a few medium sized rooms and one small room. The Celestions lacked bottom-end heft - perhaps not surprising given the closed box design and the dimensions and size of the woofer - but everything else was great. They were pretty big bookshelf speakers and they could play loud, cleanly and with great composure. Their real selling point, for me, was the very top end. 30-odd years and half a dozen speakers later, and it's still the silkiest, sweetest, cleanest upper treble I've heard. Of course, it's almost certainly the case that as my ears have aged they've got less good at hearing those very high frequencies. But I listen to speakers these days that, taking into account inflation, cost dozens of times what the 7 Mk II's cost, with much better source equipment and amplification, and I still miss those silky Celestion highs. My housemate at the time had a pair of Cerwin Vegas. His were the party speakers, obviously; but when we wanted to listen at normal volumes and to get lost in the music, we'd wire up the Celestions.
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