Celestion S10 Subwoofer Manuals
So my ageing but still working kit is starting to show cracks. We had a power cut last night and my AV Receiver (Yamaha VX-520RDS) lost all its settings which turned out to be a leaking memory capacitor. Have fixed that and all good again but my Celestion S10 finally gave up the ghost.It has had various bodges over the years due to the design of the internal amplifier causing the capacitors to dry out but now it has a loud hum when on even with nothing connected. So I'm looking at a major strip down and potential bill of around £80 to swap all the caps out this time.Just wondered if there were any recommendations for replacements, would prefer front or side firing this time though as we moved house a while ago and have floorboards downstairs.It will be paired with (don't shoot me) Bose Accoustimass 3's.The room layout does not lend itself to anything more than a 2.1 setup.Oh and does anybody know where I can get a new remote for the Yamaha amp as half the buttons don't work on mine!:)Thanks in advance. So off to Richer Sounds I went to day to look at subs, thought I'd check out some of the other speakers on show while I was there.Got a demo on a set of Cambridge Audio Min22's and the X201 sub and a couple of other small speaker packages similar to the Bose I already have.I dunno, the best out of the lot was the Cambridge Audio setup which was £655 for a 3.1 setup and to be honest, it wasn't really all that, I was a little surprised since everywhere says the Bose are pretty poor.
I mean yeah the sub was most definitely better but it sounded strained at higher volumes and the poor little Min22's (which are twice the size of the Bose) seemed to be devoid of everything mid range and below.So I guess now I'm back to my mission of just an actual sub or maybe upgrade my Acoustimass 3's to the 10's with the active sub built in. I haven't set a budget.I am definitely sure the repair would work out cheapest, heck I have the full schematics for this one but thats not necessarily what I'm after. It's 10+ years old at this point and has had multiple repairs over that time. The only reason I haven't replaced the rest is that it all works well and still looks like they day I bought it, I've had it all since new and it's not worth anything at this point so why bin it.So I'm after a potentially front or side firing sub this time as the down firing isn't spectacular on my floors and should match well to the Bose. I don't want to replace those as they are small out of the way speakers and they sound (to me) as good as the floorstanders they replaced.
Alpine S-10 Subwoofer
S80 is an elegant active Celestion subwoofer, which replaced S8. A rigid body is made of MDF. A heavy sub is installed on cone-type legs. The speaker with eight-inch diffuser made of especially finished cellulose and a pair of bass-reflex ports are located at the bottom. The system has wide functional possibilities. There are low and high amplitude inputs and outputs, a smooth signal phase control - the latter is rarely seen in even more expensive low-frequency systems. Auto turn on and off of the sub is provided.S80 do not try to reproduce a deep bass.
We can suggest that the developers, limiting the range of tasks of the subwoofer, focused on the increasing of the quality of their solution. Due to this we immediately wanted to try the system in 2.1 musical system. It turned out to be hard to establish an optimal ration of bandwidth and amplification level. But in the end we got the sound with clear and even transparent upper bass, and this bass not only strengthened the image tonally, but significantly enriched it dynamically - with all the resulting 'spatial consequences'. The bass is well-balanced and this is important. Of course, you shouldn't turn the regulation handle of amplification and bandwidth to the max, although exactly then low-frequency additive is mostly noticeable. At the fully open band it is hard to exclude the inevitable coloring in mid-high bass (extra 'fluffiness').
As expected, the sub works with shelf speaker systems much more effective than with floor ones. In the theatre the system definitely signals about its presence, although the lack of low-frequency power is noticeable in a large room.S80 is good for a delicate low-frequency expansion of the potential of small shelf systems in small rooms.
S-10 Subwoofer Box
The sub is quite universal in these conditions. There is the sense to correct signal for satellites by a built-in filter of high frequencies.