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From: francis@hydracs.ua.oz.au (Francis Vaughan)
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Subject: Re: LS3-5A
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Date: 10 May 91 17:38:54 GMT
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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