tiistai 10. huhtikuuta 2018 17.06.49 UTC+3 Jim Lesurf kirjoitti:
In article , Iain
wrote:


One might infer from what Dave wrote that the LS3/5a was ubiquitous at
the BBC. It seems that this was by no means the case.

Maybe you have inferred something in error. :-)

Erm. No, not I :-) But others might be misled.

As has been said, the LS3/5a was aimed at some specific circumstances of
use and purposes. By a quirk of economic history the UK now tends to mean
many people live and listen in small rooms at home that lack the acoustic
we might desire for better bigger speakers. That an actually work in favour
of the LS3/5a.

Many other small speakers do it better at a more sensible price.
But speaker choice is a very personal thing, and not of us can
know what the other is hearing.

Similarly, some of us have become acclimatised to, and prefer, the kinds of
balance you get from R3 concerts. Which also tends to work in favour of the
LS3/5a and other old BBC designs.

Despite the fact that those concerts were not balanced on LS3/5a ?
The results of my own listening, albeit many years ago, was that
they had a thick mid-range and a decisive lack of LF. Just right
for spoken word:-)

More generally, I prefer QUAD ESLs.

Remind me one day to tell you the Leopold Stokowsky QUAD ESLs story :-)


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.

There is no "one size fits all" speaker. Many people have several pairs
of speakers, which they change to suit the music and their mood. That's
a good solution. Large Tannoys are pretty good allrounders, though.


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.

But it seems that this was not the case with LS3/5a, particularly as there
were three different companies manufacturing them at different periods.


Iain