Spendor BC1
Short description
Studio loudspeaker developed at the BBC in the 1960s, available from 1971, with more advanced versions Mk x and the limited BC1/69, until the mid-1990s.
Data
General
- Manufacturer: Spendor
- Build time: see short description.
- Dimensions: 63.5 x 29.5 x 30.5 cm,
- Weight: 14 kg.
Technical data
- Concept: 2 way extended by a super tweeter (ITT, Coles 4001G), bass reflex;
- (Normal) tweeter: Celestion HF1300.
- Woofer: Spendor, 200 mm diameter.
- crossover frequency range: 3 - 13 kHz
- Impedance 8 Ohm.
- Power handling: 45 W, from about the end of the 70s 55 W, cf. also BC II, from 1983 about 90 W.
Active version: BC1 A, see Link HiFi Classics.
Special Features
- Mk3: Fuse for each chassis.
Reports
- Review of the BC1 (English)
- Stereo 3/1994, BC1 Mk3
- HifiVision 9/1994, 25 years of Spendor BC1 and the new edition BC 1/69
Links
- http://www.spendoraudio.com/HTML/BC1.html
- Very detailed illustrated website (from Denmark) on the BCI, accessed January 5, 2020.
- Letter from Spencer Hughes on the (development of) BC1 [English], retrieved 22 March 2020.
- The BC1 (A) at HiFi Classics
- Coles manufacturer's website,
- similar current model from Spendor in this wiki Spendor SP1/2R² or on the Spendor website http://www.spendoraudio.com/HTML/SP12R2_main.html.