Beautiful LS3/5a Clones - Excellent Sound; Superb Build!
Beautiful LS3/5a Clones - Excellent Sound; Superb Build! I purchased these at auction from the estate of a collector. I believe the wood is Rimu but could be mistaken. It's lovely whatever it is!
These are amongst the sweetest speakers for vocals I’ve ever heard. Simply stunning!
The LS3/5A were never meant to be heard by the public. The iconic BBC speakers were born out of the broadcaster's research and development department in the 1970s, whose engineers were tasked with designing and creating broadcasting equipment that the BBC needed but couldn’t source from external suppliers.
In this instance, they were after highly accurate small monitors that could be used in the limited space inside the outside broadcast vans.
The BBC decided that nothing commercially available at the time was good enough for their needs, so the engineering division invested in a huge amount of research to find out what makes a good sound in speakers. Various speaker models were tested in scale model sizes, and that's how the renowned LS3/5A came to be.
Until this point, the concept of a small hi-fi speaker didn’t exist. You’re looking at fairly large cabinets for your average speaker before the 70s; the LS3/5A were attempts to get very high-quality sound out of shoebox-small nearfield monitors. Many of history's successful small speakers, such as the Linn Kan, numerous Spendor models, Harbeth speakers and the Neat Petite, to give only a handful of examples, owe their existence to these original LS3/5A speakers.
Read more here: https://www.whathifi.com/features/musical-fidelitys-ls35a-and-the-enduring-appeal-of-bbc-inspired-small-speakers
Dimensions (HWD): 35 x 21 x 29 Impedance: 8 Ohms Weight: 10kg each
Beautiful LS3/5a Clones - Excellent Sound; Superb Build! I purchased these at auction from the estate of a collector. I believe the wood is Rimu but could be mistaken. It's lovely whatever it is!
These are amongst the sweetest speakers for vocals I’ve ever heard. Simply stunning!
The LS3/5A were never meant to be heard by the public. The iconic BBC speakers were born out of the broadcaster's research and development department in the 1970s, whose engineers were tasked with designing and creating broadcasting equipment that the BBC needed but couldn’t source from external suppliers.
In this instance, they were after highly accurate small monitors that could be used in the limited space inside the outside broadcast vans.
The BBC decided that nothing commercially available at the time was good enough for their needs, so the engineering division invested in a huge amount of research to find out what makes a good sound in speakers. Various speaker models were tested in scale model sizes, and that's how the renowned LS3/5A came to be.
Until this point, the concept of a small hi-fi speaker didn’t exist. You’re looking at fairly large cabinets for your average speaker before the 70s; the LS3/5A were attempts to get very high-quality sound out of shoebox-small nearfield monitors. Many of history's successful small speakers, such as the Linn Kan, numerous Spendor models, Harbeth speakers and the Neat Petite, to give only a handful of examples, owe their existence to these original LS3/5A speakers.
Read more here: https://www.whathifi.com/features/musical-fidelitys-ls35a-and-the-enduring-appeal-of-bbc-inspired-small-speakers
Dimensions (HWD): 35 x 21 x 29 Impedance: 8 Ohms Weight: 10kg each