You should take more notice of your own website!!😂😂

Are they 45's or 45-2's?

If you like the S45, so why don‘t you try the m 150?

Good to hear that. It's better to be pleasantly surprised than to be disappointed 😁 I never had the pleasure of listening to the S45's as I don't have too much experience with pre 80's B&O apart from the odd Beolit and the Beomaster 900k. Will give them a try when I have a chance to.

Puncher wrote:

You should take more notice of your own website!!😂😂

😁

S45s are far better than they should be. It is simply serendipity. A combination of events that add up to a really great small speaker. I have one pair left - gave another set away as I wasn't using them and thought someone else should enjoy them. Not quite as good as my LS3/5As but that is when using AB1s so if just one against the other, the S45s would win by dint of actually having some bass. I remember buying my S75s new and the dealer, who was great, shaking his head and saying I was buying the wrong speakers. The S75s have more bass which is impressive sounding but the S45s are far more accurate. A pair of those with the unfashionable BM2200 would beat most of the compact B&O range even now!

DMacri wrote:

Go for the original S-45 and S-45.2 speakers. The later version was an inferior 2-way design and had a woofer surround prone to foam rot. The earlier versions had a phase link design that looks more like a 3-way speaker and has butyl rubber surrounds for the woofers. Much better performance.

It’s the other way around. 

The S45 started with a 2-way and suffer with foamrot. 

The successor was the S45-2 with 3-way and rubber surrounds. Only the magnet was the weakest part. 

I’ve had the S45-2 as first pair of speakers I ever bought and are still in the family. A very nice sounding speaker.

Beobuddy wrote:

DMacri wrote:

Go for the original S-45 and S-45.2 speakers. The later version was an inferior 2-way design and had a woofer surround prone to foam rot. The earlier versions had a phase link design that looks more like a 3-way speaker and has butyl rubber surrounds for the woofers. Much better performance.

It’s the other way around. 

The S45 started with a 2-way and suffer with foamrot. 

The successor was the S45-2 with 3-way and rubber surrounds. Only the magnet was the weakest part. 

I’ve had the S45-2 as first pair of speakers I ever bought and are still in the family. A very nice sounding speaker.

No.
Beovox S45 (Type 6302) was first. This was a 3-way speaker - it's the one Lee has.
Beovox S45-2 (Type 6312) was next. A slight change from Type 6302 with wooden backs rather than composite - not that it did anything to the sound, really.
Beovox S45 (Type 6427) is the latest of the S45 range. This is a 2-way speaker with 2-part grills and prone to foam rot. Bottom of the
range and a nice little speaker in its own right but nowhere near the previous S45 models.

Type 6302 and 6312 has the magnet problem. Fixable.

Martin