My work reviewing nearfield monitors for Sound On Sound occasionally provokes thoughts that are perhaps a little too far off-piste for the relatively simple needs of a magazine review, and my recent review of the newly introduced Neumann KH150 was prime example. I gave the KH150 a very positive review in the magazine, but having […]
My last blog post described a visit to KEF, however, I took a few more photographs on the day than I was able to include in the post, so I thought I’d put that right with a follow-up post majoring on, in no particular order, a few of the unused pictures. Click on each one […]
I’ve been involved in the UK speaker industry since the early 1980s and have visited more than my fair share of speaker companies and factories, but remarkably, until late December 2017, I’d never visited KEF.
I’ve been measuring speaker performance ever since I washed-up at Mordant-Short in the early 1980s as a raw design graduate. One of the first things I learned was how to use a set of classic Brüel & Kjær acoustic measurement equipment comprising a measuring microphone, a combined oscillator/preamp/analyser (one of these) and a paper chart recorder (like this). Once warmed-up, the […]
In the last line of my LS3/5A blog post I wondered how far we’ve really come in the last four decades or so of electro-acoustic engineering. The question prompted a comment from one well known speaker engineer that we’ve come a long way in terms of driver design, particularly in diaphragm materials and magnet systems […]
Thanks to a commission from Sound On Sound to write a feature on the fabled BBC LS3/5A monitor (combined with a review of the Graham Audio Chartwell LS3/5), I found myself extensively researching the story of the speaker. I mean, the last thing I needed to do when writing about the ‘3/5A was to get anything wrong […]
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