thk@rudedog.asd.sgi.com (Thomas Kong) (05/09/91)
A friend of mine was buying some loudspeakers and dragged me
along with him. We listened to a pair of Spendor LS3-5A
that he didn't like but I like a lot except for a bit of low
mid-range boom. Since these BBC spec speakers have been around
since I was a little kid (20+ years ago), there must be many
many versions from various manufacturers. I hope to be able to
find a version that doesn't this annoying boom.
Who else makes these little monitors? (I assume one or
more of the British manufactures like KEF, Celestion,
Wharfedale, Goodman, Richard Allen, ..etc must still make them).
Can someone point me to sources preferably in the bay area?
Thanks,
/tom
PS. Almost anything will give a giant improvement over my Ohm L's
converted from three to two ways, with Radio Shack tweeters :-)francis@hydracs.ua.oz.au (Francis Vaughan) (05/11/91)
In article <11993@uwm.edu>, thk@rudedog.asd.sgi.com (Thomas Kong) writes: |> |> A friend of mine was buying some loudspeakers and dragged me |> along with him. We listened to a pair of Spendor LS3-5A |> that he didn't like but I like a lot except for a bit of low |> mid-range boom. Since these BBC spec speakers have been around |> since I was a little kid (20+ years ago), there must be many |> many versions from various manufacturers. I hope to be able to |> find a version that doesn't this annoying boom. |> |> Who else makes these little monitors? (I assume one or |> more of the British manufactures like KEF, Celestion, |> Wharfedale, Goodman, Richard Allen, ..etc must still make them). |> Can someone point me to sources preferably in the bay area? The key work here is "BBC". The LS35A is a BBC design built under licence by Spendor. The only other manaufacturer I know of was Chartwell, who were the first manufacturer. The LS35A was specificly built as a monitor speaker for FM broadcasts. From memory this meant that they were no too fussed about response above 15kHz. The actual drivers were KEF. A B110 and a heavily modified T27. In all seriousness you can do much better than the LS35A now. In a pint sized speaker you could do worse than look at the Duntech Little Duchess. However I have little idea about pricing relativities. (The Duchess is made a few miles from where I am sitting, whereas the LS35A is half way around the world.) Duntech is setting up a plant in the US, but whether it is on stream yet I don't know. As to Bay area stores, that is a bit hard from where I sit. Francis Vaughan
Jon.Fairbairn@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk (Jon Fairbairn) (05/13/91)
I understood that the LS3/5A was designed for monitoring OB in confined spaces. As such was made to boom for frequencies below its proper response, so that the engineers could tell if any big LF had got on to the recording. Anyway, apart from Spendor, Rogers (aka Swisstone Electronics) make LS3/5As. Jon
wkung@sunee.waterloo.edu (William Kung) (05/13/91)
One other speaker manufacturer that makes a model called the LS3/5a is ROGERS. I've listened to them (and I used to own a pair of LS6as), and I must say that I like them a lot. I don't remember hearing anomalies above 15 kHz (I thought they were for mobile monitoring applications, and I think most people can hear to 16 kHz), and I don't remember hearing any low-end boominess (they really don't go very low, about 80 Hz or so). What they do reproduce is quite stupendous, I think (good tonal balance, imaging?). It figures that ROGERS is often forgotten. Their advertising and design styles are very low-key, although I hear that they have finally come out with an intriguing-looking floor- standing model.