(Part Two)
I should acknowledge that I purchased the LS5/5 without audition, having full confidence that Derek Hughes would be unlikely to fail in any BBC design. Although my main concern in buying the LS5/5s ‘blind’ (or should that be ‘deaf’?) had been the lack of 'room compensation' in the...
My LS5/5s replaced Spendor SP100s, which I have owned since 1996. My SP100s were of the ‘Derek Hughes’ era, manufactured in late 1994 (they were used by Spendor at UK hifi shows, after which I acquired them). I had desired them since reading Martin Colloms’ outstanding review of the original...