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Celestion Introduces HornWizard App for High Frequency Horn Design
November 19, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Introduces HornWizard App for High Frequency Horn Design

As a leading manufacturer of professional audio drivers for sound reinforcement applications, as well as guitar and bass loudspeakers, Celestion has a long history with horns and horn-loaded transducer design, an area the company continues to explore in new designs and to better support customers projects and requirements. The Celestion engineering team programmed its own tools for horn simulation. Now, Celestion announced HornWizard, a new desktop and mobile application which is basically a portal to the company’s powerful horn design software.
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High-Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems Book Now Available From Parts Express
October 14, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

High-Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems Book Now Available From Parts Express

The book High-Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems — History, Theory and Design by Bjørn Kolbrek and Thomas Dunker is now available at Parts Express. This extremely detailed volume of more than 1,000 pages - reviewed here by audioXpress' Mike Klasco - is the first ever to address the history, theory, and design of horn loudspeakers in a complete, accurate, and scholarly fashion. The limited edition of this massive and very high-quality hardcover book is sponsored by Celestion.
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Celestion Offers DIY Cabinet Design for the F12-X200 Guitar Loudspeaker Modeling Driver
September 24, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Offers DIY Cabinet Design for the F12-X200 Guitar Loudspeaker Modeling Driver

Celestion offers a DIY cabinet reference design made specifically for the F12-X200 Full Range Live Response Loudspeaker. The F12-X200 combines Celestion’s expertise in guitar speakers and pro audio speakers into one transducer, designed especially for use with profiling amps, modeling software, impulse responses, and all technology for emulating guitar amps and speaker cabinets. The reference design will allow anyone to build a custom 1x12 cabinet for the F12-X200.
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Celestion’s Innovative Axi2050 Axiperiodic Driver Now Available at Parts Express
August 25, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion’s Innovative Axi2050 Axiperiodic Driver Now Available at Parts Express

Celestion announced that their highly-anticipated Axi2050 Axiperiodic driver is now available for purchase at Parts Express. Performing the role of two speakers in one, the Axi2050 is a high power, high-output driver which reproduces a frequency range of 300Hz-20,000Hz without the need for a midband crossover. This Celestion innovation with a 2-inch exit throat and standard mounting delivers superior intelligibility and perceived audio performance.
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Test Bench: The Celestion CDX14-3040 Compression Driver
July 8, 2020 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: The Celestion CDX14-3040 Compression Driver

The transducer Celestion sent for this Test Bench joins the extensive CDX line of neodymium motor compression drivers. Designed for use with 1.4” throat horns, the CDX14-3040 is driven by a 75 mm (3") diameter voice coil wound with edge-wound copper clad aluminum wire (CCAW) on a non-conducting former driving a single-piece titanium diaphragm and surround. Celestion also supplied its new 1.4” H14-7050 70°x50° constant directivity horn. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, April 2020.
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Celestion Introduces ENGL Cabinets Digitally Downloadable Impulse Responses
June 25, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Introduces ENGL Cabinets Digitally Downloadable Impulse Responses

As a premier manufacturer of guitar and bass loudspeakers whose classic rock guitar tones have made the company famous, Celestion announced their new line of ENGL Cabinets Impulse Responses. Celestion has faithfully captured the sounds of German amp designer and manufacturer ENGL to create this new addition to its Backline Heroes range of cabinet IR libraries, which already offers IRs for five other famous guitar brands, including VOX and Orange.
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Celestion Introduces Fifteen Iconic Blackstar Guitar Cabinet Impulse Responses
April 6, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Introduces Fifteen Iconic Blackstar Guitar Cabinet Impulse Responses

After modeling its own popular guitar amplification drivers, Celestion now launched the new Blackstar Cabinet IRs, adding to the existing Backline Heroes range of Impulse Responses. Blackstar is a guitar amplification company based in Northampton, England, founded in 2004 by a group of musicians and ex-Marshall employees, and which quickly became one of the leading brands in Europe and the US. The new IRs all feature Blackstar’s cabinets loaded with classic Celestion speakers, and are available for audition and download at CelestionPlus.com.
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Voice Coil April 2020 Now Available and Keeping the Loudspeaker Industry Together
March 27, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Voice Coil April 2020 Now Available and Keeping the Loudspeaker Industry Together

As scheduled, Voice Coil April 2020 is now available in print and digital, connecting loudspeaker professionals in these challenging times. This month, Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific) discusses Mobile Audio and Microspeakers, which is also the topic of this month's updated directory. James Croft reviews a patent from Harman, while Vance Dickason characterizes the new 18NDLX Imperium woofer from Fane and the CDX14-3040 compression driver from Celestion. Download now and start reading!
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Celestion Announces the Availability of the Ruby Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses in Two Notes Format
March 27, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Announces the Availability of the Ruby Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses in Two Notes Format

Celestion continues its Impulse Responses initiatives with, this time announcing availability of the Celestion Ruby Two Notes Guitar Speaker Impulse Responses, for use with the critically acclaimed Torpedo (Studio, Live, C.A.B) hardware, the speaker and miking simulation engine; and Wall of Sound software environment (a DAW plug-in version of Torpedo). Two Notes Audio Engineering (https://www.two-notes.com) is a French manufacturer of guitar/bass speaker, cabinet simulation products.
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Kemper GmbH Launches Guitar Speaker to Support Kemper Profiler Sound Modelers
March 20, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Kemper GmbH Launches Guitar Speaker to Support Kemper Profiler Sound Modelers

For nearly two decades, Kemper GmbH developed and perfected the Kemper Profiler, an hardware unit that quickly became a leading-edge digital guitar amplifier and all-in-one effects processor using the company's patented technology, which is able to model the exact sound and behavior of any guitar amp and all its control variations. Now, the company added a critical missing link: the Kemper Kabinet and Kone guitar cabinet and driver.
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