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Derek Hughes, son of
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design only if they were able to build a speaker which matched the same high fidelity standard the BBC had worked to achieve. The goal of the BBC R&D team had been reached with the original LS35A standard was now available to consumers who had the means to buy an amplification and loudspeaker
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The BC1 is bigger than a LS3/5a and also uses a
Bextrene-membrane and was used in many radio stations, too. As a consequence many UK speaker designs are influenced by this improvement of sound quality through reduced colouration and greater consistency as well as the stereo imaging. The BC1 was
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in the 1960s. Though journeying into
Television, this was a time period when the BBC's licence budget meant the main transmission output was still radio, the imperative behind that of a BBC licensed loudspeaker was that (within the physical confines of a small bookshelf speaker) the principle
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objective of the loudspeaker was to reproduce an output audio signal with an acoustic fidelity to an original radio presenter's voice; principally within the entire spoken vocal range. To this end the resultant, and historically important
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producing the original versions of what is now the
Classic Series, most notably the SP1/2, SP2 and the S100 and he did amongst others the redesign of the 3/5 1998 and is still working at loudspeakers as freelance consultant designer.
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system guaranteed to bring in to their homes the exact same sonic signature BBC sound engineers heard while recording and during replay. An alternative, the unwieldily, but sonically superior
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Round about these days
Spendor enlarged their product range by floorstanding loudspeakers, first with models of a S line, currently be found as loudspeakers of A line and higher end D line.
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Newer loudspeaker by
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