In article , Jim Lesurf
scribeth thus
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Eiron
wrote:
The LS3/5A is/was the most over-rated speaker of all time. Muddy,
poor imaging and just plain average.

Here's another secret: your secret never was a secret.

If Stuart was still here he would tell us that the image from a
bextrene cone collapses at low levels.

The main thing about the LS3/5a was the quality control. They all
sounded the same, if equally mediocre.

Right - so you're saying there are better similar speakers around - but
they don't all sound the same? ;-)

For broadcasting use consistency of the monitor speakers is important.
And that's what they were designed for.

FWIW I quite like both the LS3/5A and the current Stirling 'near
equivalent'. But I tend to prefer the 'BBC' sound, and use them with an amp
that has ye olde tone controls.

And given the space, etc, prefer ESLs. :-)

Jim


Me too

However around a couple of years ago I was involved in a small outside
broadcast from Ely Cathedral for a local community station and we had
just a simple crossed pair, Neumann's they were, friend of mine managed
to cadge them from someone plus a couple of spot mics.

Small choir organ accompaniment and narrates with male and female voices
and some solo parts

We were using my LS3/5A's and what was surprising was the audio out
there and in the small room we using for monitoring sounded just a
scaled down version of the real thing.

Yes It did sound boring and had a lack of sparkle and all that but it
was a bloody accurate representation of what was going on in the main
cathedral

And before anyone sounds off they didn't reproduce the pedal notes all
that well as those speakers were designed for small mobile control vans
and the like they the BBC designed bigger ones for bigger places and
Peter Walker designed the most accurate ones of all

I'll think I'll hang onto mine for the foreseeable future and when
people start giving them away on e-bay as there so rubbish then I'll get
another pair!
--
Tony Sayer