• Excellent Condition
• Cherry Finish
• Original boxes and packing
• Floor spikes and grilles

Spendor may be one of the oldest (and most respected) names in the UK audio industry, but since its acquisition by Philip Swift (once of Audiolab) its products have been anything but old-fashioned.

Admittedly, the Classic Series products look the ‘pipe and slippers’ part – all nostalgic finishes and appearance – but even here, beneath the skin these venerable designs have benefitted from carefully considered upgrades and technological improvements – developments that have filtered down directly from the unmistakably modern A- and D-Line products, whose slim cabinets are themselves anything but ‘me-too’ versions of modern thinking.

You don’t have to look too far before you find the evidence that Spendor may build on the solid foundations that made speakers like the BC1 world famous, but it is only too ready to invest in modern technology and investigate practical solutions to modern concerns.

The A6R, a slim, floorstanding two-way that looks remarkably conventional is anything but, at least in musical terms. Instead it manages to offer all the advantages of two-way operation in a compact enclosure that (in stark contrast to the competition) doesn’t sing along with the music.

Then there’s the D1, a compact standmount of such remarkable musical coherence that it’s capable of challenging all those high-end miniatures that cost many, many times its modest price.

And that’s the thing: it’s not just what these speakers do (which is impressive enough), but how they do it for the price that is the burning question.

• Type: Three-way rear-reflex loaded loudspeaker
• Driver Complement: 2× 180mm Kevlar coned LF,  1× 180mm EP77 polymer MF,  1× 22mm Spendor LPZ HF
• Bandwidth: 27Hz–25kHz ±3dB in-room
• Sensitivity: 90dB
• Load: 8 Ohms
• Weight: 35kg ea.
• Dimensions (W×H×D): 222 × 1125 × 409mm