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Spendor Audio loudspeakers are built in the UK and known for their refinement, natural midrange, rhythmic timing, and overall musical performance born out of a professional broadcasting legacy

With three loudspeaker lines Spendor Audio provides elegant high quality loudspeakers for rooms of various sizes. The A-line speakers are easy to drive and designed to get compelling performance from mid-level amplifiers and source components in small to medium sized rooms. The bass has some punch, the mid range is natural and there is seamless integration of the treble for a very coherent sound that gets to the heart of the music.

The D-line speakers will reveal the resolution and precise rhythm that higher performing electronics can provide. Spendor's linear pressure zone (LPZ) tweeter tracks leading edge transients offering better clarity of lyrics. High frequency tones are purely pitched, smooth and delicate rather than splashy and hard that is perfectly integrated with a clean midrange and a well proportioned articulate tight bass. In smaller rooms with complex mode patterns where the speakers are located close to a wall, the flow port bass loading helps to better even out bass notes. Embouchure technique, mouth piece/reed, and instrument body resonances are illustrated in natural intruments such as saxophones and the extra level of information revealed in vocals brings you closer to the artists performance. It's this extra level of scrutiny that Spendor engineers aimed for and achieved in the D-line speakers that fully justifies their price and the requirement for high quality source and amplification equipment.

Those looking for soulful dynamics will appreciate these characteritics in Spendor Audio's Classic loudspeakers which house larger drivers and cross-overs that don't get in the way of the music. There is a greater sense of dynamic shading and integration into the venue of the recording with a perfect balance of the presence band so vocals don't get to far forward and detached from the rest of group.

Spendor has previously made loudspeakers for home theater and now offers three center channel and two wall-mounted speakers to compliment the current A series and D series lines. Wall-mounted speakers are a useful two-channel audio solution when floor space prohibits floor standing or stand-mounted speakers and a big advantage over custom install in-wall speakers is that they can be more easily moved for optimal sound or when a room is re-arranged. The AW1 comes with a substantial mounted tilt and turn bracket while the DS1 uses a clever wall fixture and locking speaker plug.

Spendor Quality

Spendor has always been associated with reference standard domestic and studio monitor loudspeakers (under contract to the BBC) since the sixties. The company's founder Spencer Hughes was involved with the development new materials such as Bextrene and Spendor's reference-standard, monitor-quality speakers such as the LS3/5 and BC1 achieved cult status. Consistency across all the parts that make up a loudspeaker; cabinet, drivers and cross-over is paramount. The cabinets are built in-house at Spendor's own UK dedicated cabinet manufacturing facility. Spendor builds their own drivers and the cross-overs feature tapped inductors and custom capacitors for accuracy and low losses. Precision also means attention to details down to the torque of a driver mounting bolt.