So sad that I always have to travel and work and missed out on all these parties : (

Is tomorrow a good day for the party?
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Enjoy yourselves. I am accompanying a multi-national group up to the weekend.

"Your place or my place?"
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My place then your place :-)

Very good condition.
Compare the so called the white belly LS3/5A. They have a real white belly :-)

CP

Tomorrow a friend from Singapore will come to my place. David just took the EF37A back and he may also come tomorrow. Is tomorrow a good day for the party?

John

Gingers,

The words I mutter every Friday night in Lan Kwai Fong
"Your place or my place?"

A brief surf on eBay found a lot LS3/5A choices..

But mind you there are 2 trends - price stands high in general, including those versions which were previously less desirable; the eBay price is even higher than in R33 2nd hand market!

Some zero record sellers selling from farther part of the world, e.g. Sweden.., would you dare to bid?

Bidding for LS3/5A in eBay is becoming risky and expensive. Be careful.

US $1,999 now, with 17 hours to go.

Does the pair of plastic tags "Chartwell" worth a lot?

S - stands for Swisstone?
C - stands for Chartwell?

The T27 and B110 drivers look like those found in 黑牌 "black tag" Rogers.

Chartwell by Swisstone - hence SC 1014 serial number?

jimmie88 in Melbourne

Very nice wood grain.

As new condition :-)

jimmie88's set up with LS3/5A :-)

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/newsletter/145/components_to_remember.html

1. The Dahlquist DQ-10 loudspeaker system
2. The Audio Research tube electronics:
the SP-3 preamplifier series and the D-150 basic amplifier
3. The Linn Sondek LP12 turntable
4. The Levinson JC-2 solid-state preamp
5. Madrigal/Mark Levinson Nº36 digital-to-analog converter
and the Nº37 playback deck
6. The LS-3/5A monitor speaker
7. The Koetsu moving-coil cartridges
8. Planar-magnetic speaker designs and servo woofers:
Jim Winey and the Magneplanars;
Arnie Nudell and the Infinity Reference Standard
9. The Mod Squad Tiptoes
10. The Fulton Gold (and Brown) speaker cables
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Dudley Harwood was the leading light of a team of engineers at the British Broadcasting Company (the BBC) who drew up specifications for a “monitor” speaker for use when recording on location. Since the BBC isn’t in the speaker-manufacturing business, it licensed three British companies to make the design. The tolerances were tight and the speaker could not be called an LS-3/5A unless those specs were met. Rogers, Spendor, and Chartwell were the three licensees. But the man whose company made the most out of the design was Jim Rogers, and the brand Rogers LS-3/5A became synonymous with the speaker, even though Spendor produced a well-regarded LS-3/5A.
When Rogers went bankrupt, Swisstone bought the company and continued to manufacture the speaker under the Rogers name. Then Chartwell went bankrupt and Swisstone bought that company as well and continued to produce an LS-3/5A under the Chartwell name, even though the speaker was exactly the same (and made on the same production line) except for the logo on the front. Since the BBC liked having at least three licensees, it then granted Audiomaster and a British company named RAM the right to the LS-3/5A manufacture.
British business confusions aside, the speaker itself became legendary and prompted an entire generation of Americans (and some Brits as well) to call their small speakers “monitors” or mini-monitors when they were, in fact, no such thing in the sense of a precision recording monitoring system. The almost religious fervor that greeted its bigger-than-the-box sound and pinpoint images prompted a number of faux or counterfeit “LS-3/5As,” some from the Pacific Rim, even some from the developing fast-buck shysters feeding on the emerging and widespread quest for something better from more compact packages.
The considerable purity and image specificity of the speaker, and its (relatively) extended (but no-bottom-octave) response prompted several generations of quite respectable small speaker systems, right down to the vastly more elaborate and expensive first-generation Wilson Audio WATT, which like its antecedent, certainly would let an engineer know most of what he was getting down on tape.

hkkaho
pls check pm

i try many of speaker and still keep JBL L100 and Tannoy 10'' Gold but never try LS3/5a...
so very interested this pair ar...

how much is ok ??

hkkaho,

don't miss the chance!!!
audiomaster is worth to own..
one of the best 3/5a

Hi
i get a chance to have Audio master LS3/5a,
how is the differ with the normal LS3/5a ??
plx advise