On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>>On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>
>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>
>>
>>LS3/5a ?
>
> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.

For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
for other situations.

--
Jim <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>
1959/1985? M B+ G+ A L- I- S- P-- CH0(p) Ar++ T+ H0 Q--- Sh0

Jim Easterbrook <news@jim-easterbrook.me.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>>
>>>
>>> LS3/5a ?
>>
>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>
> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
> for other situations.
>

I spent a day with Angus McKenzie some years back; he had a pair of LS
5/8’s in his living room:-)

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

Jim Easterbrook wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>>
>>>
>>>LS3/5a ?
>>
>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>
>For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
>for other situations.

But does it have a white cone? ;-)

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham
'48/33 M B+ G++ A L(-) I S-- CH0(--)(p) Ar- T+ H0 ?Q
chris@cdixon.me.uk @ChrisJDixon1
Plant amazing Acers.

Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> wrote:
> Jim Easterbrook <news@jim-easterbrook.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> LS3/5a ?
>>>
>>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>>
>> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
>> for other situations.
>>
>
> I spent a day with Angus McKenzie some years back; he had a pair of LS
> 5/8’s in his living room:-)
>

The late Angus McKenzie, I think Peter White brought that to our attention

Mrs McT

On 12/12/2022 11:00, Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Jim Easterbrook wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> LS3/5a ?
>>>
>>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>>
>> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
>> for other situations.
>
> But does it have a white cone? ;-)
>
> Chris

Is it just me or am I imagining that speakers are often repeating slight
snatches of their talk, parts of a sentence, as if it had been poorly
edited?

John Finlay <chemistman@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2022 11:00, Chris J Dixon wrote:
>> Jim Easterbrook wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LS3/5a ?
>>>>
>>>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>>>
>>> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
>>> for other situations.
>>
>> But does it have a white cone? ;-)
>>
>> Chris
>
> Is it just me or am I imagining that speakers are often repeating slight
> snatches of their talk, parts of a sentence, as if it had been poorly
> edited?
>

Whereas I can’t know what you have been listening to, I suspect that it is
possibly radio interviews ‘down the line’ from internet links and fobile
moans; if this is the case then I suspect you are hearing the same
artefacts that I frequently hear and find very irritating. The problem is
not usually due to editing but from the error correction systems being used
on these highly compressed data links. Often a ‘drop out’ which may be only
milliseconds in duration but sometimes in excess of a second suffers data
correction that results in missing or even repeated sound segments or
samples. The effect can be irritating or even annoying but always
disruptive to the listener.

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:28:26 +0000, John Finlay <chemistman@hotmail.com> a
gribouillé dans la poussière...

>Is it just me or am I imagining that speakers are often repeating slight
>snatches of their talk, parts of a sentence, as if it had been poorly
>edited?

I get that on some audiobooks - sometimes complete with repeats of any
mispronunciation which is doubly annoying! Editing on audiobooks seems to
be minimal, which either shows they don't care or they are (mostly) very
good at it.

Sometimes, of course, it happens because my device is online and a
notification 'ding' interrupts and prompts the repetition.
--
Penny
Annoyed by The Archers since 1959

On 12 Dec 2022 09:00:42 GMT, Jim Easterbrook wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>>LS3/5a ?
>>
>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>
> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS
> 5/8,
> for other situations.

Anyone interested in making their own will find insufficient detail in
these BBC Research Dept reports.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1976_29
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1979_22

--
Jim <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>
1959/1985? M B+ G+ A L- I- S- P-- CH0(p) Ar++ T+ H0 Q--- Sh0

On 12-Dec-22 10:44, Mike McMillan wrote:
> Jim Easterbrook <news@jim-easterbrook.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11-Dec-22 8:54, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> There are some appalling speakers on R4 these days.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> LS3/5a ?
>>>
>>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>>
>> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS 5/8,
>> for other situations.
>>
>
> I spent a day with Angus McKenzie some years back; he had a pair of LS
> 5/8’s in his living room:-)
>
Still available, and a snip at a mere £7,785.00 in cherry or oak.

(No, I'm not hinting that umrats should club together to give[1] me a
surprise Chrissy present.)

[1] I suppose young persons today would say "to gift me a..."

--
Sam Plusnet

On 12/12/2022 18:24, Jim Easterbrook wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2022 09:00:42 GMT, Jim Easterbrook wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> LS3/5a ?
>>>
>>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>>
>> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS
>> 5/8,
>> for other situations.
>
> Anyone interested in making their own will find insufficient detail in
> these BBC Research Dept reports.
>
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1976_29
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1979_22
>
I read that initially as "Anyone interested in making their own will",
and I wondered what predatory non- lawyers were doing on umra.
Steve

On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 07:49:26 +0000, steve hague
<stevehague82@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 12/12/2022 18:24, Jim Easterbrook wrote:
>> On 12 Dec 2022 09:00:42 GMT, Jim Easterbrook wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 07:50:26 +0000, John Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:16:16 +0000, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> LS3/5a ?
>>>>
>>>> Ah yes, the BBC's speaker of choice - or used to be.
>>>
>>> For small spaces. Plenty of other designs, with designations like LS
>>> 5/8,
>>> for other situations.
>>
>> Anyone interested in making their own will find insufficient detail in
>> these BBC Research Dept reports.
>>
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1976_29
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1979_22
>>
>I read that initially as "Anyone interested in making their own will",
>and I wondered what predatory non- lawyers were doing on umra.
>Steve

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