Spendor

Spendor is a British loudspeaker manufacturing company founded in 1969 by audio engineer Spencer Hughes (1924–1983) and his wife Dorothy.

Though journeying into Television, this was a time period when the BBC's licence budget meant the main transmission output was still radio, the imperative behind that of a BBC licensed loudspeaker was that (within the physical confines of a small bookshelf speaker) the principle objective of the loudspeaker was to reproduce an output audio signal with an acoustic fidelity to an original radio presenter's voice; principally within the entire spoken vocal range.

An alternative, the unwieldily, but sonically superior Quad Acoustics Electrostatic Loudspeaker ("ELS") were simply too large and pricey for most audiophiles.

As a consequence many UK speaker designs are influenced by this improvement of sound quality through reduced colouration and greater consistency[5] as well as the stereo imaging.

[12][13] Since the year 2000 the company is owned by Philip Swift a speaker designer and co-founder of Audiolab, who personally knew Spencer Hughes.