Spendor Classic 100, stand mount speakers

The Classic series from Spendor is a unique design harking back to the good old days where vinyl records were carried around to house parties, speakers were big and their bass drivers were just as big!

If you miss the sound of smoky rooms, rock n roll and brown and gold interior decoration these are the speakers for you. 

With large 30cm bass drivers and retro styling you will be forgiven for thinking these are speakers from the 60s. And that's because they've been made to look, sound and feel like they were.

Thin walled and heavily dampened is something unusual these days as most modrn designs strive for super high rigidity in their cabinet to control the resonances as best they can. Spendor argues, however, that that's an impossibility - you'll always have a cabinet that resonates to some degree. The trick, they say, is to mke sure those resonances occur where you want them to and that's in the low frequencies where they are less audible to our ears.

Highly rigid cabinetry tends to push these resonances into the upper bandwidths creating a harshness or brightness to the tone. 

These Spendors don't have that built-in brittleness and are the classic easy-listening speaker. 

Read the What Hi-Fi review here