tiistai 10. huhtikuuta 2018 18.01.21 UTC+3 Dave Plowman (News) kirjoitti:
In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Offhand I can't think of *any* speaker I'd say would work for *all*
kinds of music at *all* levels in *all* rooms for *all* tastes. So
people choose what suits them.

Quite. Only a fool would thing something like the 3/5a - or even Mr
Wilson's favourite NEAR - is going to be suitable for all uses. Even more
so in the pro domain.

Where has such a claim been made, and by whom?

I work in the "pro domain" as you call it, and use several different pairs
of speakers which are chosen, in consultation with the client, and the
producer for their particular project.

But recording teams that specialise in one type of music, seem to stick to
the same monitors.

In an off-list message regarding this thread, a chap who was recording
music at the TV Centre from the day it opened until he retired, tells
me that that they had a variety of speakers.

There was absolutely no-one who only did 'music' recording at TVC when I
worked there, Ian.

My name is spelt I-a-i-n. Only you and the incorrigible Arnie Kreuger
seem to be unable to spell it correctly.

This chap went to the BBC straight after Uni, and worked at White City until
his retirement. He has a degree in music.


The LS3/5a was not used.

Of course not. I take it you don't know what it was designed by the BBC
for?

Small OB vans. Spoken word, (as the brief clearly states)


A little basic research would educate you.

I went to the Maida Vale demo:-)


He also mentioned that this speaker was produced under licence from
the BBC by three manufacturers, and that one could differentiate
between the same speaker from different makers.

If he wasn't familiar with them, how would he know?

Where did I say he was not familiar with them? He said they were not used
for music.

IIRC The brief was that you could swap individual units to make a stereo
pair and still get results that let you work OK. I'm not sure if anyone
makes speakers which are completely identical, one example for every
other.

Even back then one could order matched pairs from Tannoy and also
Bowers and Wilkins, and probably from other manufacturers too.
There is nothing special about that.


Iain