"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:29:43 -0000, "Oddjob"
wrote:


"Fleetie" wrote in message
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"Oddjob" wrote
Hello everyone, I have a pair of Celef Loudspeakers but I don't know
much
about them apart from the excellent sound they make.

I have searched the web with no conclusive results, I think they may
have
turned into ProAc or was it Celestion and Kef - Cel - ef.

Can anybody shed some light on the history of this brand?

many thanks

http://www.google.com/search?q=celef+loudspeakers :

THIRD link down:
http://www.music-at-home.co.uk/html/...krs_proac.html

" ... Tyler has been designing and manufacturing loudspeakers for
almost
thirty years - initially through the Celef brand but under the ProAc
banner
since 1989. Over the last decade, his Response range has come to
represent
the pinnacle of audio excellence, while the more affordable Studio and
Tablette models have introduced ProAc to a much wider audience. ..."


Thanks for that fleetie, I must have missed that one

Note that they ran in parallel for some time through the '80s, ProAc
being the 'upmarket' end of the same product range, made in the same
factory in Thirsk Road, Borehamwood. Celefs were perhaps best known
for their resistive port loading, using lots of drinking straws
stuffed into the port to increase viscous drag. They used KEF and
Audax drivers.

I think I'm right in saying that after the ProAc Tablette series was
introduced in the mid '80s, the Celef brand was dropped as being an
unnecessary confusion.

Thanks for the additional information Stewart, as always a mine of useful
hi-fi information :-)