Peripherals: What are the British fever audio brands? 11 British Top Audio Introduction

Speaking of Britain, many people feel that it is a country that has traditionally advocated high quality of life. The enthusiast audio brand that was born in the British Isles is also loved by the world's major audiophiles. What are the British fever audio brands? The author will take a look at 11 British top audio brands.


1. B&W (Baohua)

"New Britain" or "British/International". Contrary to the conservative purpose of the British tradition, the B&W concept has been innovative and has been stunned with innovations in the structure of the speakers. However, because of its high taste, it leaves a fresh, chic impression. The flagship of today's big horn is "Nautilus," and the flagship of bookshelf is "Silver Signature." It is a masterpiece of extraordinary creativity. However, just like the Jaguar 220 supercar, the mortal dare to be a dreamer.

B&W attaches great importance to the open and transparent sound, the accurate reproduction of the sound field, it is the advocate of "linear phase unit arrangement", "matrix box support", and its masterpiece is the famous 801. 801 has been for a long time, As a symbol of hi-end British speakers, it is also a monitoring box for digital classical music recorded by major companies such as PolyGram. In this sense, the merits of digital recordings are indisputable. B&W 801 has one copy.

B & W's basic sound is open and detailed, loose and smart, and the opposite of ATC, and "BBC sound" is also very different. I feel that B&W has adapted to the music tastes of today's Yapi people and its commercial success is inevitable. B&W is now a big factory with a wide range of product grades. In addition to the above-mentioned series, the 800 series is a fever series, of which 805 is a bookshelf box representing B&W. P series and 600 series are popular products. As an enthusiast, always buy the 8 head box.

2, Tannoy (Tianlang)

Tianlang is an old famous factory in the early years of the Hong Kong-Taiwanese fever circle. It is particularly famous in Japan. Among the advanced enthusiasts, pushing “Westminster Temple” with a gold dice or a quality amplifier is definitely a symbol of identity. Tannoy's basic design Is a large labyrinth-style horn speaker, large coaxial integrated high / bass full-band unit. In the fifties, Tannoy was able to design and produce such a perfect product. It is absolutely a stunning achievement and it can be regarded as the most precise meaning of the word.

3, ATC

The designer Billy Woodman's basic design philosophy is based on the best and most expensive midrange unit in the world: that is, the ATC speaker uses a single midrange unit to cover the complete midrange, representing vocals, stringed pitch, and Followed by the high pitch unit to make overtones, followed by the bass unit in the bottom "as its basic design. This midrange unit is a masterpiece of B. Woodman's life. The structure is complex. ATC mid-tone texture, physical sense of the world invincible, pure and accurate sound tone, fast and accurate low-frequency, dynamic linear compression, a strong degree of Hugh said no comparable British speakers, is the United States speakers in the leader, but also match. Nowadays, enthusiasts love to listen to the classics with ATC. In fact, its greatest strength is that it can replay the "killing people" like noisy heavy metal music, hard rock, and still calm down! The popularity of British pop music is universally acknowledged. Those bizarre works and recordings are very sophisticated. Apart from ATC, which kind of horns can bear?

4, AE

This is an unusual number in British speakers, and the sound is very special. The entrepreneurial work is AE-1. In English speakers, the first use of metal cone bass unit. Strong dynamics, fast transients like lightning, amazing impact. Listening to pop music, listening to rock music, New Age, movie music, etc... The small box sound field is vast and the drums and gongs are truly incomparable. If anyone doubts the explosive capacity of the British speakers, let him listen to AE, will be speechless. However, listening to classical music is nothing but the loss of strings and vocals, unlike the orthodox “British sound.”

5, Monitor Audio

A quite commercial fever brand. The host is of Indian descent and has a very wide communication in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Due to its own speaker processing plant and its own cell manufacturing plant, the low-priced products are inexpensive and popular, and they have been the starting point for many mainland enthusiasts. Its high-priced product is the Studio series, which uses metal cones in the low-end unit, the gorgeous wooden carpenters in the UK can be called first. Its sound characteristics are as beautiful as it looks, gorgeous and meticulous, and its dynamics are good. It is very attractive for feverish brothers.

6, Harbeth (clear after the rain)

Finally talked about the famous "BBC speaker". Harbeth is a typical BBC factory. Its founder was Dudley Harwood, one of the 3/5A designers.

Here briefly talk about the "BBC speaker" and the origins of these BBC plants. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) completely replaced speakers for language and music monitoring in the early 1970s. The task of designing this generation of speakers was by Spencer Hughes and Dudley. Harwood responsible, the design requirements are actually highlighting the true nature of speech restoration, taking into account classical music; in the bandwidth and dynamic range is not deliberately required, even in practical applications do not consider stereo broadcast, often with a single speaker! Don't forget that this is the time when FM broadcasting is being promoted from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. We do not know what digital recording is! In order to achieve this, it seems that the technical requirements are not high, but nowadays it seems that the rich cultural content of the design requirements, the designer with a keen ear tone, coupled with the British tradition of conservative, pragmatic style, chose a simple two-way split-tone solution .

7, KEF (Kelvin Peak)

The British industrialization factory represents the “British sound” of public taste. BBC is a BLA/T27 unit dedicated to 3/5A on behalf of the BBC. However, it has not joined the production of 3/5A; it has engaged in avant-garde products like the 105, which is earlier than the B&W801, and the first to adopt the split structure. High units, linear phase arrangements, but also engaged in a number of mediocre civilian speakers; finished speakers occupied a large number of markets in their own country and overseas, but also a large number of units, kits. If those BBC “small factories” represent personal and artistic British labels, they stick to their own beliefs; KEF can be said to represent group and mainstream British labels, with the principle of “serving the public”. . "The orthodox selection of special hi-fi for the middle class" can summarize the characteristics of KEF.

8, Rogers (Rogers)

This is an old British sound and sound manufacturer. It had also produced amplifiers in its early years, but it became famous because it began manufacturing BBCs for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the 1970s. With 3/5A and 5/9 rising in popularity, Rogers is almost synonymous with British bookshelfs. The history of Rogers 3/5A has become a textual research for the fever circle and it is not much to say here. 3/5A is produced by several companies, and Rogers' unique secret is the 5/9 and 5/8 pairs of BBC studios. Of course, these two pairs of names are designed by the BBC. One of Rogers's contributions was the custom-made heavy-duty polypropylene transparent basin unit, and the second was a thin, multi-layered, glued wood speaker. Today's enthusiasts know that Rogers box has a "box sound", and feel that its analytical power is not high and the sound is slow. In fact, Rogers's "Box Voice" is very knowledgeable and skillfully uses box sound dyeing, which is the warmth and intoxicating secret of the bottom sound of BBC cabinets such as 3/5A, 5/9 and 5/8. If Rogers doesn't have a box, its unique charm is gone.

9. Spendor

The same 3/5A, enthusiasts will inevitably compare it with Harbeth, KEF and Rogers. General word-of-mouth recognises that Rogers' early 15Ω products have a mellow tone and a good string sensation. Later 11Ω products gradually lost their brilliance and their dynamics improved. Harbeth's treble is transparent and its low frequencies are deep. The flavor is between Rogers' early and late stages. Tan special edition is the best in the sound sense of luxury, but the charm must be refined; KEF is exquisitely handmade, low-frequency thick, high sound density, slightly waned middle and higher notes, different from the traditional 3/5A sound; Spendor The most orthodox BBC professional flavor. The sound is simple, the dyeing is small, the fax is high, and it is generous and resistant.

10, ProAc

Unique British personalized label. The host Stewart Tyler, with its immortal Tablette, is definitely a master of genius design. Tablette was born shortly before and after 3/5A and SL6. At that time, it was the British speaker design talent that came out of the pack. When the group got together, the "BBC sound" had become the mainstream in the orthodox high-level audio industry, and it was deeply rooted in people's minds.

11. Celestion

This is one of the oldest speaker brands in the UK and has a history of more than 60 years. Celestion is a major manufacturer in the United Kingdom. In addition to the production of home-made hi-fi boxes, it also produces professional stage boxes, known as the 100-variable dragon series. Celestion produced the Dittion series of three-way splitters in the early years. The sound was soft and beautiful. It was one of the representatives of the British household box in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the well-known two-way Split Bookshelf SL6 was designed to become a major event in the British audio industry and a milestone in the history of Celestion.



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