NEWS: Hey, small Spendors - new SA1s aim for luxury compact speaker market
This is the SA1, described by Spendor as 'the most musical and revealing small loudspeaker ever created' by the company.
The two-way speaker, which sells for £1500 a pair complete with matching stands, or £1000 a pair without, combines all-new drive units in a sealed cabinet finished in a range of luxury wood veneers, coated in a deep lacquer.
The stands come finished in black satin lacquer with matching wood inlays.
The mid/bass unit in the speakers, which stand 30.5cm tall, is a 15cm Spendor-built unit with a magnesium alloy chassis, ep38 polymer cone and a long-excursion motor system.
It works together with the 22mm tweeter, also a new Spendor design said to 'combine the extended frequency response of a small diaphragm with the low frequency characteristics of a larger diaphragm to give stable low distortion response over a very wide frequency range.'
Together with a high-quality single-wire crossover, these drivers allow the SA1 to deliver a frequency range of 75Hz-20kHz.
The cabinet itself follows Spendor's familiar 'thin wall damped panel' design with extensive internal bracing, each panel of the cabinet being designed to have its own natural resonance, thus providing natural damping.
The speakers, which come in the high gloss zebrano illustrated, high gloss black or deep brown wenge satin, can also be used close to rear walls, or on open shelves.
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These look pretty nice to me. If they sound half as good as they look then they should sell like hot cakes
Slightly garish IMHO but could be cool sounding. 75Hz ain't too deep tho....
These were demo'd at the Bristol Show with the new Naim Nait 5i Amp and CD player. Incredible expansive soundstage and detail. Agree, little light on the base, but what there was came across as musical and as tight as the proverbial duck's...and they looked much better in the flesh than in the above photo..great combination.. one of the good demo's at the show..alongside Naim, Rountree, Wilson B, Amadeus Audio, Dali Helicon 400 Mk2 plus Primare source/amplification, Leema Antila/Tucana and REL. Worst at show had to be Chord/Dynaudio - a truly awful set-up (get a decent room next year!), Audiolab/Mission - everything was out of synch Friday morning, biggest disappointment - Leema Acoustics Stream/Pulse
Just bought a pair of these little SA1s - superb. So much more revealing and laid back than my MA RS1s. Superb! Can't wait until they get delivered