Hi all
A friend of a friend found a pair of this model in an antiques shop here in Athens Greece. Woofer suspensions and dust caps were rotten and the tweeters dead. He decided to buy them (very cheaply) in case they could be fixed. A dexterous repair guy restored the drivers very well. The crossover capacitors have also been replaced. They sound very nice with a natural musical tone I learn.
Does anybody know anything about this speaker? We can't find info on the web. It looks like a late 80s to mid 90s design to me. Clue being the Scanspeak D2010 foam lined tweeter which wasn't available before 1985 or about there.
A friend of a friend found a pair of this model in an antiques shop here in Athens Greece. Woofer suspensions and dust caps were rotten and the tweeters dead. He decided to buy them (very cheaply) in case they could be fixed. A dexterous repair guy restored the drivers very well. The crossover capacitors have also been replaced. They sound very nice with a natural musical tone I learn.
Does anybody know anything about this speaker? We can't find info on the web. It looks like a late 80s to mid 90s design to me. Clue being the Scanspeak D2010 foam lined tweeter which wasn't available before 1985 or about there.
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The other driver is probably a scan 6 and a 1/2inch polypropylene, so maybe around a 3Khz crossover. If done right that would give a decent sound and not so cheap drivers at the time.
As to the company they are unknown to me. I think Wilmslow audio had a similar looking kit based on the polyprop driver at the time here in the UK.
As to the company they are unknown to me. I think Wilmslow audio had a similar looking kit based on the polyprop driver at the time here in the UK.
Maybe it wasn't a small British loudspeaker brand despite "Cambridge" in its name. Can't exclude the possibility it was made in another country after all. Anyway, its historically cool that the obscure SRC Cambridge gets a mention on the Web with this thread. Someone who knows the brand's story could possibly see it in the future and inform. Or yet another SRC surviving pair will be found and more technical details can be added here.
Mystery solved
I found evidence. An add from 1989 on a Greek Hi-Fi magazine's scan on the web.
Apparently the SRC Cambridge was made in Greece. Only distributed from a small well established Hi-Fi store in Athens's city center. Called "The Uncle". Its owner was a humorous friendly guy with long hair and a long beard who was introducing himself as the uncle.
The add claims "An expensive sound at an accessible price" offering "speakers assembled with advanced parts and English reference standards at half the price of equivalent imports". (There was a special import tax including Hi-Fi back then).
As to why "Cambridge" in a local brand's name, no info in their advertisement. Just Greek designs following the British monitors school? Or they also had a British engineer's technical input? Who knows anymore... Those small Hi-Fi stores are long time gone and the "Uncle" himself is probably gone too.
Also found an SRC owner's comment in the Facebook of a local loudspeaker drivers repair shop.
He is a sound engineer who also has Adam 2.5 and small Focal studio monitors. Praises some dual woofer bigger SRC model that he still owns and mainly uses for final mix checks. "Whatever I work on it has 99% chances to be correct anywhere."
I found evidence. An add from 1989 on a Greek Hi-Fi magazine's scan on the web.
Apparently the SRC Cambridge was made in Greece. Only distributed from a small well established Hi-Fi store in Athens's city center. Called "The Uncle". Its owner was a humorous friendly guy with long hair and a long beard who was introducing himself as the uncle.
The add claims "An expensive sound at an accessible price" offering "speakers assembled with advanced parts and English reference standards at half the price of equivalent imports". (There was a special import tax including Hi-Fi back then).
As to why "Cambridge" in a local brand's name, no info in their advertisement. Just Greek designs following the British monitors school? Or they also had a British engineer's technical input? Who knows anymore... Those small Hi-Fi stores are long time gone and the "Uncle" himself is probably gone too.
Also found an SRC owner's comment in the Facebook of a local loudspeaker drivers repair shop.
He is a sound engineer who also has Adam 2.5 and small Focal studio monitors. Praises some dual woofer bigger SRC model that he still owns and mainly uses for final mix checks. "Whatever I work on it has 99% chances to be correct anywhere."
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A scanspeak tweeter, a polypropylene 8" woofer, British school, that's close to this one:
Spendor SP2/3E Loudspeaker by Ian White
Spendor SP2/3E Loudspeaker by Ian White