spendor bc-1

Mahalo mah braddah for all da reply. Boy dis one great sounding speakers!!! Have pair of acoustat and it sounds planny close. wish had mah sp 100 sold dem wen I wuz going through equiptment like it was water. Love all spendor models!!! Have Hou Oli La Ho Omakika i and Mele Kaliki Maka mah audiophile braddahz!!!!!!!

Don't worry, they can take more than 50 watts if it is clean power and not applied continuously. A speaker rated at 50 watts continuous can take 500 on peaks; most speakers are damaged by too little power; not too much.

Flyinghawaiian,

and I thought you were speaking Jamaican :^)

let us know how you like them...

best

Phil

Mahalo Nui for da kine. Picked dem up. sounds unreal but says 50 watt max. Hope I do not blow up da drivers yah.

They are still great speakers, I had them starting in 1970 and was a dealer for them for years. The STC-Coles super tweeter and Celestion HF 1300 tweeter are no longer in production; Spendor has switched to Scanspeak in later versions of the speaker, which is still being made. They will not play all that loud but at least as loud as , say , a Quad 63. On voice they are hard to beat; when I had my Apogee Duetta Signatures and my SP 1s [later version of the BC 1s] set up together I spent most of the time listening to the SP 1s. Check the Spendor forum on line for further info.

I borrowed a pair for a weekend in the 80s and thought they were about as good as my Maggie MG1 speakers. Presuming I knew anything back then, that would mean they are good but not great.

I imagine if it were today I would prefer the BC1 but I have read so many rave articles on them I am biased I am sure.

I would not pay more than a few hundred myself and they would have to have good surrounds.

my two cents...