Price Paid:  $1500.00 from Dealer

Summary:
I have had the Spendors for over a month. After auditioning several speakers (and some of the big brands too) I decided to buy the Spendors due to their price-value proposition. These are very 'musical' speakers. Not extremely detailed, not extremely accurate but as I said very 'musical'. Listening to music never gets boring, I can listen for hours.

Spendors do not have too much bass, but enough for my taste. I do not listen to rock and I don't think these are speakers for that. Also I feel these are better speakers for solo to few instruments/vocals. Spendors may tend to get a bit bright on the highs, equipment matching plays a crucial part. I am using a Krell CD player with Krell int-amp.

Having said that, these are good enough for me. When I said 'too much' whatever in the above paragraph, I wasn't comparing apple to apple, but rather comparing Spendors with speakers that are way more expensive. It's hard to ignore the Spendors especially at their price point.

Strengths:
very muscial
fluidity
excellent price-value proposition

Weaknesses:
imaging

Similar Products Used:
used/auditioned: B&W, Logan, Paradigm

Price Paid:  $1900.00 from Italy (counselor Mr.

Summary:
The Spendor is a loudspeaker very serious. Don't plays with the sound: don't overacts, don't forges nothing. It's a british....

If you move a flowerpot in the room, the Spendor allow you to hear the difference. The BBC use it like a monitor...

So, you must have a balance acoustic room, an very good digital source, an clean amplifier. And best cd.

Strengths:
Deep but tight bass, three-D soundstage, tonal balance and natural and neutral timber. Very good with the transient of piano!!!

Weaknesses:
None

Similar Products Used:
Dynaudio, BW 704, Mission, Opera, Chario, Sonus Faber

Price Paid:  $1400.00

Summary:
This will be short...I'm writing due to the lack of reviews for this product, which deserves attention. I've owned the the Spendor's a little over a month...not quite through the recommended 200 hour break-in period, but I spent many hours listening to a pair that were fully exercised. I will write again after I've had them for a while. After a long militant campaign I narrowed my selection of sub $2k speakers down to two...Revel M20's (cheaper than usual due to M22's that are soon to arrive) and the Spendor S5e's. I don't think it's possible to go wrong either way here. I felt the Revel's imaged better than the Spendor's, however the Spendor's sounded a bit fuller and slightly more pleasing across a broad range of music (perhaps due to their dual midrange aproach?). If I only listened to jazz-vocal and accoustic guitar music the Revel's would now be sitting in my listening room. The clincher, however was the fluid nature with which the Spendor's integrated with a sub (Muse Model 22 in my case), as where the Revel's came across as 3 seperate units not working as a whole (even with their own reknowned Revel sub). In wrapping up the Spendor's hit my taste perfectly given their price range (I gave up finding an audiofile speaker cheaper than $2k that handles full range). They are sweet on midrange and integrate beautifly with a sub for future expansion.

Strengths:
Smooth midrange, discrete size, quality construction, integrates nicely with sub.

Weaknesses:
Not the imaging/soundstage I would like.

Similar Products Used:
Spica TC-60 (Own)
Spica Angelus w/Muse Sub 22 (Own)
Revel M20 (Auditioned)

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