Avcables Cc Focus (ed 22 July2008)

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1 Edition 22 - July 2008 X Future Article: A VISIT TO THE SPENDOR FACTORY IN HAILSHAM .... 2 X News, Events and Reviews: SPENDOR STATEMENT .... 6 Click on logos or hyperlinks for more info! X Classifieds and Special offers:......... .10 ‘AVCables CC focus’ - your source to keeping you up to date on all the latest news, reviews, events and technical commentary related to our world-renowned product ranges. Please forward any inputs, comments or suggestions you may have to [email protected] Editorial Comment Welcome to our 22nd edition of AVCables Focus. This month, our feature article takes you for a very insightful tour of the Spendor manufacturing plant in Hailsham, England. Find out why Spendor has become a legend in its own right! In our regular ‘Reviews’ section, we cover two excellent reviews; one on the Spendor S3/5R Classic compact monitor and the other on the new Spendor SA1 bookshelf. Then, in our ‘News’ section we reveal details on Spendor’s latest luxuriously engineered STatement floorstand loudspeaker. A reminder to please browse through our classifieds and product SPECIALS for really great deals on offer. NOTE that there had been a large price reduction on all Ecosse HDMI and DVI cables recently! Details on the upcoming Sound and Vision Expo 2008 is yet again covered—as previously said, this is THE Hi-Fi Show to attend this year, so please start planning your attendance!! Enjoy! Jeandré Botha Then, in our ’Letters’ section we provide you with feedback from two very satisfied customers. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 2 Feature Article: A visit to the Spendor factory in Hailsham With its roots in the classic BC1 design, Spendor’s range of loudspeakers reflects a commitment to engineering excellence traceable over a 37-year period. while older designs remained brand loyalty comparable to in the catalogue, later to be that of Quad. Despite this, Ma g a zi n e , J u n e 2 0 0 8 ) updated as the Classic R when Swift and co-owner series. By 2005, Derek Scotland Introduction the time had sold the business come to move to to the TAG group Spendor’s story began in bigger and better in 1998, the new 1969 when Spencer Hughes, premises. ‘We owners dropped working on cone materials in were in three very t h e A u d i o l a b the BBC Research old industrial name. Five years Department, first came up units, and now we later, TAG with his own speaker using a McLaren Audio Philip Swift with one of have a single Bextrene plastic cone driver, itself closed down Spendor’s high quality modern unit so the Spendor BC1. Spendor crossover boards and that everything is and its assets was soon busy supplying a precision-wound inductor under one roof. were sold to IAG. broadcasters around the It must have world with professional brought a quiet monitor speakers. Later, smile to Philip when Spendor was acquired Swift’s face when by studio mixing-desk the Hong Kongspecialist Soundtracs, export owned company sales continued but the home promptly revived market was neglected. the Audiolab brand. ‘When I Then, in 2001, Spendor was took over at acquired by Philip Swift. With Spendor,’ design input from Walk into the bass/midrange units are Derek Hughes Spendor factory, he says, ‘I came Spendor’s all designed and built in-house (son of the and almost the there very enthuAnd this has allowed us to Spendor founder first thing you will siastic about all the things that needed set up a much more efficient and a respected see is a shelf and more organised operaspeaker engineer unit filled with to be changed and too), Swift set the company’s improved. And I tion.’ What separates the reminded, loudspeaker manufacturer about reviving own drive units... wa s when I talked to from the mere assembler is Spendor’s sales to some of Spendor’s customthe ability to design and UK consumers by creating a ers, that they just wanted to build its own drive units. new, more modern home be assured that nothing was Walk into the Spendor speaker range. going to be spoiled. That was factory, and almost the first their main concern.’ thing you will see is a shelf Philip Swift could well claim to unit filled with the company’s know something about brandown drive units, ready to go ing and customer loyalty. In New Premises into future batches of the early 1980s he loudspeakers. co-founded Audiolab, which Happily, Swift’s new S-Series (Extracts from HiFi AVC ABLES CC Authorized SA Dealer Network (E=Ecosse, S=Spendor, F=Furutech) News eventually gained a level of models were successful, GAUTENG (Pretoria/Centurion): Hi-Fi Installations, E, Centurion, (012) 663 1122 • • • • • • Filmscreen SA, E, Centurion, (012) 643 1319 The Audiophile, E/S, Garsfontein, (012) 991 6121 Sound Gallery, E/S, Lynnwood Ridge 083 302 0302 Acoustic Design Services, E/S/F, Woodhill Estate, 083 302 1564 SoundWorx, E/S/F, Wapadrand, Pretoria 084 421 5575 GAUTENG (JHB): • Signature Audio, E/F, Pineslopes Mall, (011) 465 8713 MPUMALANGA • The Listening Room, E/S/F, Ermelo, (017) 819 3502/3 • Sphere Custom Design & Install, E/S, Nelspruit, 082 903 4344 WESTERN CAPE: • Sound Craft, E/S, Kommetjie, (021) 783 5089 • • VidiVox, E/S/F, Hermanus, (028) 313 0505 Compu by Design, E/F, Cape Town, 084 588 8055 FREE-STATE: • Audio World, E/S, Bloemfontein, (051) 444 0927 KWA-ZULU NATAL: • Radio Shop, E/S/F, Empangeni, (035) 772 1443 • • Radio Shop, E/S/F, Richard’s Bay, (035) 789 0333 Music at Home, E/S/F, Umhlanga, 082 321 9169 Continued on next page…. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 3 Feature Article: A visit to the Spendor factory in Hailsham (continued) Turn a corner, and you can watch those drive units being put together. experiment with a new cone, for example, we can do that within a day or two.’ ‘Each of the individual parts is designed by Spendor. For The plastic material some we have our own tooling, and they are made used for the cones is specifically to our requirements. But a number of things we do supplied in flat actually make in-house now. All of the plastic cones are made squares with no here. We had tremendous trouble finding an outside company directional grain who could do this properly, because we use materials that pattern. ‘If you use are not run-of-the-mill. ‘You are looking here at the heart of material that comes the loudspeaker. These components determine what the off a roll and has got loudspeaker will sound like. If they aren’t right, there is a natural “set” in it, nothing you can do subsequently, with crossovers or cabinets you will find that it or anything else, to get the sound right. ‘We still say that our doesn’t lose drivers are hand-made. These components that memory, determine what the w h i c h is will carried over into Some of the little details that are very impor- loudspeaker Crossovers ready for testing tant in Spendor drivers are things that would sound like. If they the finished not be easy to achieve with automated assem- aren’t right, there is cone, putting stresses into the cone in one direction. bly. You tend to have to go to different materi- nothing you can do Our forming technique ensures there is no stress introwith duced into the cone.’ Just as important as the material als and different adhesives, different ways of subsequently, crossovers or cabidoing things. If you optimise that purely from used is the cone profile. Spendor cones tend to have a nets or anything else, the production engineering point of view, you to get the sound right. deeper flare than many competitors’. As Philip Swift then start to sacrifice technical performance points out, if you imagine trying to stand on a cone, you and sound quality. ‘We tend to build drive units in batches. can see that the deeper the flare, the more rigid it will be. Our girls who assemble drive units can do every individual stage. It’s more satisfying for some one to build a complete Plug Effect drive unit.’ The Right Glue One of the crucial stages is gluing the cone to the surround. A glue-dispensing machine is used to give precisely the right quantity of adhesive, and an activator spray is used to make the adhesive cure correctly. ‘The adhesive can have a dramatic influence on the sound of the driver. You can’t just pick from an industrial catalogue the one that seems to have the best specification and is quickest and easiest to use, because it might not measure well or sound very good. The adhesive is a transmission interface between the surround and the cone. Some of these materials are quite difficult to bond, because they are waxy.’ Having the ability to make loudspeaker cones in-house is a huge advantage when it comes to trying new ideas and building prototypes. ‘We’ve got on-site facilities for experimenting. If you wanted to A small but vital feature of Spendor bass/midrange drivers is a phase plug, the bullet-shaped centre projection from the front of the magnet pole piece in the centre, which is shaped to complement the profile of the cone and helps to smooth the response of the drive unit at high frequencies. ‘It’s something that has a very significant effect on the drivers, and it’s surprising how few companies actually use them. It was there in vestigial form even in the original BC1. The effect is something you can measure very easily. ‘In the new 15cm drive unit for the Spendor SA1, the frequency response is remarkably good, up to almost 10kHz. So we are able to cross that speaker over at a very high frequency. We don’t have the crossover down at the usual 2kHz, which is generally the worst area of operation for the tweeter, and it’s also right in the most sensitive areas in terms of brightness, harshness and perception of detail. ‘We introduced phase plugs into the Continued on next page…. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 4 Feature Article: A visit to the Spendor factory in Hailsham (continued) Classic series, as those models didn’t have them before. We felt it was such a shame to hold back the sound quality of those speakers. That was the main change that took place in those models.’ Consistency Completed drive units are tested and selected into matching pairs before they are assembled into the loudspeakers. However, this pair matching is a much easier process now than it was in the old days of the BC1 and the LS3/5A. ‘If you go back to those days, there was a lot of variation between drivers and it was very difficult to get two drivers that were very much the same. What we’ve really focused on at Spendor over the last few years, is finding engineering solutions which give us very consistent drive units. As they are manufactured, they are guaranteed to be very close to a reference standard, and we’ve made major progress during this last couple of own precision-tapped inductors which are assembled, along with the other components, onto high-quality circuit boards that have through-hole plating to give the best conductivity in the signal path through the crossover. The track layout also provides a multi-way edge connector for testing. In the early days, when drive units were more variable in their characteristics, tapped inductors were used for matching adjustSoldering the lead-out wires…. ments. Spendor still uses them, but for different reasons. ‘With the circuit topology we use in our crossovers, having the facility to design the inductors like this gives us tremendous control over the way we shape the frequency response of the crossover network, and has a very powerful influence on getting it perfectly balanced through the crossover region. It’s quite fascinating that with an analogue crossover, you can still almost bend or distort things in an artistic form. Whereas with digital crossovers (DSP) you can think, well I’ll have this here, that there and so on, but it doesn’t automatically blend them all in a nice balanced way for you – one section starts and the other stops, and there may be a bit in between! With analogue, it’s automatically smooth.’ The Cabinets A printed impedance plot emerges from the pen-chart recorder. A strict test regime is applied to all drive units, crossovers and finished loudspeakers years. ‘With some of the latest drive units we have designed, you could take any two and they would already be way within what constitutes a perfectly matched pair. In the most general terms, we’re talking about matching within 1dB. However, we can then pair two units with variations of only 0.1 or 0.2dB. Even amplifiers are no better matched than that! We think that’s quite an achievement.’ Like all but a handful of the world’s quality speaker manufacturers, Spendor buys in its tweeters from Scandinavia, but crossovers are built in-house. For these, Spendor winds its Just as its drive unit development can be traced back to the roots of the company, so Spendor’s cabinet designs could be said to have evolved from the early models. However, things have moved on from the old BBC concept of using, essentially, a thin-walled cabinet with damping to move the inevitable resonances down in frequency and so ‘out of harm’s way’. ‘In our speakers today, you have first of all a really rigid cabinet structure. People do want the benefits of a clean, controlled, detailed and articulate yet weighty bottom end. You achieve that best with a more rigid wall to the cabinet. With our dynamic damping, the clever thing is that the damping material is actually clamped between the drive unit chassis and the cabinet. So behind each driver is a visco-elastic damping material, actually a rigid material, which Continued on next page…. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 5 Feature Article: A visit to the Spendor factory in Hailsham (continued) has two benefits. It clamps the drive units so that you don’t get any micro-vibration, which can tend to blur very fine detail and make the sound just a little bit coarser or hazier than it should be. And any energy which is flowing in the cabinet, when it reaches that point, is dissipated silently into heat. ‘We felt that this was quite an innovative element when we first came up with it for the S Series, because instead of having to apply damping all over the cabinet walls, strategically placed modern polymertype materials – which are also rigid materials, they don’t have to be Work in progress – somewhere in really soft and flexible – this group of development are just perfect for getting samples lurks another forthrid of the energy.’ This coming model approach avoids problems of energy storage in the cabinet. ‘If you make a cabinet four inches thick, what you’re going to do is push the coloration down to very low frequencies, but you are still going to hear it. Even if you do push it right down to tens of Hertz, you are still going to get second and third harmonics of that. So getting rid of it, that’s the answer!’ the future so much in terms of making big ranges of speakers that meet every size and physical requirement. It’s much more that we are aiming to create distinctive individual products, that are hopefully a little bit clever and a little bit different. Obviously the classic speakers have retained their 1970s appearance, quite deliberately. Then we have the modern but relatively understated look of the S-Series loudspeakers. Now, with the SA1 mini-monitor and the ST we have far more dramatic products in modern finishes, and with the ST the potential for actually customising. ‘A loudspeaker has got to have a little bit of personality and character. If you wring that totally out of the product, it’s not very interesting, and that applies to electronics also. But it’s not something you ought to be immediately able to put your finger on, because that would be a problem coloration.’ ‘However, Spendor’s whole basis is performance and engineering. And out of that, fabulous-sounding products that appeal to a very broad spectrum. It has continued to amaze me how strong the reputation of Spendor is all over the world, and if you interfere with it and try to modify it too quickly, you do that at your peril! I think we are starting to move now, but move in a positive way, which retains all of the good things which people value’. Testing is an important aspect of speaker production. In routine quality control checks, frequency response and impedance measurements are run on completed speakers. ‘There is a set procedure for testing each loudspeaker. But because the crossover has been tested, and the drive units have been tested and calibrated, we know for a certainty that when we put them together, everything will be fi ne. The only thing that really can go wrong is if you have wires the wrong way round. Once in a blue moon it happens, and that’s why you always do the test.’ A Clever Future Needless to say, though, Philip Swift spends more time looking ahead than looking back on past glories. ‘We don’t see Spendor’s new SA1 model on its dedicated stand Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 6 News, Events and Reviews This section covers all the latest industry news and reviews on our products, as well as information on any local hi-fi news/events of interest. AVCables News Spendor announces new luxuriously STatement floorstand loudspeaker controlled bass in any listening environment. engineered We are proud to announce the release of Spendor’s new STatement floorstand loudspeaker, offering a luxuriously engineered and sophisticated modern look with individual character. Spendor is offering a custom service to allow inlays to be realised in a wide range of fine materials, colours and finishes to satisfy the most individual customer requirement. Inlay materials can include natural veneer, metal laminate, leather, fabric and lacquer. AVCables will be pleased to consider requests for the most exotic or luxurious materials, custom art, graphics and corporate branding – the possibilities are limitless - let your imagination flow. The basic selection of inlay finishes available at launch includes exotic ebony, zebrano and aluminium. The new Spendor ST (STatement) is a 2.5-way distinctive high performance floorstand loudspeaker for discerning individuals. This is thé one, we believe, that will revolutionise and redefine Spendor’s future….and also silence all those that may have criticised Spendor for their relatively understated designs. Beautifully styled with a gently curved shimmering black piano lacquer cabinet, the ST conceals a wealth of new Spendor engineering and innovation. The sophisticated modern look and individual character of each ST is enhanced by a luxurious fascia inlay. Spendor can design and craft fascias according to the individual preference of each ST customer. The Spendor ST boasts with an all new Spendor 18cm Kevlar composite cone bass driver and a new Spendor 18cm polymer cone bass-mid driver. Combined with a new wide-surround 29mm tweeter with bi-elliptical acoustic front plate and damped rear acoustic chambers, the result is outstanding sound quality and superb technical performance with good efficiency and high power handling. Down to the last detail the Spendor ST is engineered without compromise. The clarity, focus, purity and dynamics of this new design are exceptional. The slim elegant cabinet disguises a substantial 45 litre acoustic enclosure which ensures deep powerful low frequency response. Bass loading is a development of the proven Spendor S-series linear-flow system which ensures consistent sound and well Continued on next page…. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 7 News, Events and Reviews This section covers all the latest industry news and reviews on our products, as well as information on any local hi-fi news/events of interest. Industry News and Innovations Events Japan News: JVC develops Super Hi-Vision projector chip – 17x Full HD resolution! - 19 May 2008 Sound and Vision Expo 2008 (We have reported on developments in next generation Super HD formats in our May 2008 edition. In addition, JVC has recently made the following announcement:) It's just under a year since we brought you news of the work being done by Japanese broadcaster NHK to prepare for Super HiVision TV, offering many times the resolution of current HD TV systems. Now JVC has announced the development of its latest projector chip, offering more than 17 times the resolution of current Full HD systems, and forming the final link in the Super Hi-Vision broadcast/viewing chain. The 1.75in 8K4K D-ILA chip is claimed to be the world's first single display device able to handle Super Hi -Vision. It offers a resolution of 35 megapixels – 8192x4320 pixels, against 1920x1080 for current HD TV systems – meaning the 7680x4320-pixel resolution of Super Hi-Vision is well within its capabilities. The new system is four times the resolution of the 4K2K digital cinema standard already available in JVC's DLA-SH4K pro-use projector. As well as being used for Super Hi-Vision, JVC says the chip will play a part in the development of what the company calls "the ultimate in imaging technology: ultra-realistic 3D displays." And this amazing picture quality is going to need a sound system to match. NHK is currently considering 22.2-channel capability. If you are into high-end audio and/or video, you simply cannot miss this show! This years Sound and Vision Expo is scheduled to take place at the Indaba Hotel in Sandton from 13-14 September 2008. Please diarise these dates NOW! As usual, AVCables will also be exhibiting at the show, occupying Lecture Room 02. More info on our planned equipment setup is available here. For more details on what you can expect a the show this year, products/exhibitors and the latest event news, please visit the official Sound and Vision Expo website at www.svexpo.co.za Audio Video Appliance Expo 2008 The 6th annual Audio Video Appliance Expo will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre from 30 October to 02 November 2008. Products to be exhibited includes TV, Plasma, LCD, Audio Video Systems, Specialist Audio, Home Automation, Home Theatre Equipment, Small & Large Appliances, Photographic Equipment, Digital Equipment, Digital Printers, Editing Software, Business Machines, Mobile Computing, Broadband, Memory Storage Devices and Gaming Devices. For more information call North East (011) 979 1323 or visit www.avaexpo.co.za Publishing on Continued on next page…. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 8 News, Events and Reviews This section covers all the latest industry news and reviews on our products, as well as information on any local hi-fi news/events of interest. Latest Reviews SPENDOR S3/5R COMPACT 2-WAY MONITOR LOUDSPEAKER Spendor’s revamped S3/5 classic monitor loudspeaker, the Spendor S3/5R, has recently received an excellent review from The Absolute Sound Magazine. SPENDOR SA1, 2-WAY BOOKSHELF / STANDMOUNT LOUDSPEAKER Spendor’s new SA-1 stand mount / bookself loudspeaker has recently received an excellent review from Hi-Fi World Magazine. This is what they had to say…. This is what they had to say…. "Indeed, throughout the crucial midrange, this new model may be the most neutral and natural sounding mini-monitor I know. Readers looking for small speakers to serve both high accuracy and high musicality in an intimate setting should put the S3/5R at the top of their audition list." - Paul "...and what they do is offer a spry, crisp and fast rendition of the music you play through them. It's one that is infectiously musical, bristling with detail and - dare I say it attitude, even." – David Price, Hi-Fi World MagazineJune 2008 Seydor, The Absolute Sound, June/July 2008 The full review (pdf) may be read (330kB) by clicking here. The full review (pdf) may be read (3MB) by clicking here. Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 9 AVC ABLES Letters from our members Competition Corner NOTICE: Please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected] with your comments, suggestions, questions and/or inputs for possible addition to this section. Silencing the noise HDMI cable show s its true colours Hi Jeandre. I recently purchas ed a Furutech Power Filter (e-TP80E), cable (Furutec h FP314AG) and plugs (Furutec h IEC FI25G & FI-E35G). Fi rs tly I must mention that I was NOT a believ er that power filtering and power c abl es c an i mprov e y our system sound qual ity. Sinc e moving into my new home I experienc ed noise, mainly audi ble on my two front s peakers . My Cl ass A Monoblock Power Amps was also running very, v ery hot. So thes e the main reas ons why I decided to purchase this equipment. I can summarise the results I obtained as foll ow: Hi Jeandre. I have received the (HDMI) cable (Furutec h HDMI-N1 V1.3) and install ed it on my Denon DVD – connected to my 40” Samsung LCDTV. The noise generated through my power s up ply was totally eliminated. The small amount of noise still present is “generated” through the signal cabl e. I had my components connected at the same ti me as the Furutech HDMI s o was abl e to make quick changes to see quality differences with the di fferent DVDs. Thes e di fferences are very clear es pecially in the vibrancy of the colours, the components hav e a more bl and appearanc e whereas the Furutech colours were sharp and in your face, es pec ially on a DVD such as “CARS” PIXAR where they use hi gh contras ti ng colours . Defi nition was als o much better. Thanks again. Our eleventh lucky draw for a 1m pair of analogue ‘Ecosse audio Best Boy’ interconnect cables has take place on 31 May 2008. NOTE: Competition draw is now being held on a Quarterly basis. Next draw - 31 August 2008. If you have not read the rules for My Power Amps are runni ng much colder. I have measured these Amps running at temperatures in excess of 60 degrees Celsius . After the installati on of the Furutech filter thes e amps are runni ng at 24 to 25 degrees Celsius. I could not believe it !!! Steve English, via e-mail so now by clicking here. Best of luck to all in the next draw! Jeandre The sound transparency and clarity improv ed tremendously. So much so that I totally changed my believ e that Power Filtrati on equipment is a waste of money. I was…and is still s mil ing from ear to ear. AVC ABLES Pieter Wentzel, via e-mail Useful links Technical snippets & advise Equipment tweaks / upgrades / advise…. this competition as yet, please do http://www.avcables.co.za http://www.avsa.co.za http://www.avforums.co.za http://www.svexpo.co.za http://www.whathifi.com None this round. http://www.theabsolutesound.com http://www.stereophile.com http://www.hifiplus.com http://www.6moons.com http://www.oncables.com http://www.theabsolutesound.com Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!! 10 AVC ABLES CC Classifieds Newsletter Back Issues NOTICE: The classifieds section is a free service for private sellers ONLY. No retailers or wholesalers may submit classifieds. Submit your inputs to [email protected] OFFERED Mirrodex 16x9 home theatre screen with 50mm black aluminium border, 2.4m x 1.35m. R2,500. Phone Jeandré 082 774 4831 blue, Retail R45,000, Yours for R19,900. Phone Jeandré 082 774 4831 Projectiondesign Action! Model One MkII, Excellent condition, HD2+ DLP, 1280x720 HDTV, >3000 : 1 contrast, HDCP DVI-D, 7 segment colour wheel, maranello TO SWOP None You can download back issues of WANTED our newsletter from our website by clicking here. None ISSUE 19— APRIL 2008 Future article: What exactly is • • Prices subject to change without notice • • Jitter and why does it matter? 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News: New Furutech fuses, Ecosse CS2.2 Ultra cable • • Events: Expo updates Reviews: Spendor SA1 5-star review from What HiFi? • • • • Letters from members Technical Snippets Competition corner Classifieds of interest to you and your location; and we will refer you to your closest participating Dealer. PO Box 58926, Karenpark, Akasia, 0118 www.avcables.co.za , [email protected] , cell 082 774 4831 Note: Product specials shown and entry into our quarterly competition are only valid for subscribers to our newsletters. Click here to subscribe NOW!!