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1969 PRE MAIN PRODUCTION Spendor BC1 2 way units. These are the original bbc intended design that mimicked the Harbeth ML as a 2 way and what eventually led to the BBC LS3/6 and Rogers units. The only reason Spendor went over to a 3 way design in 1970 (along with Kef and B&W and many many others....) was the government announcing a purchase tax on domestic speakers. So, in order to compete within a foreign market and keep the sell price sensible they claimed these were domestic professional monitors thus avoiding purchase tax. :-)
These BC1's are very early in their Spendor's production history of speakers and one of the first pairs made before investing into slick manufacturing processes, serial numbers, marketing and ways to sell to the masses. The BC1 as we know it right up to the 80's stemmed from these.
This particular pair I understand were given by Spencer Hughes (Spencer and Dorothy - Spendor) to his neighbour in sussex for putting up with doping bass cones and testing bass drivers in his garage when he first set up. They were used lightly over the years being well looked after aside from a few bumps along the way and ending up with me from the family connected to the neighbour who originally received them.
These are obviously super rare and whilst there are many BC1 3 way production speakers out there, these forerunners to them are not what you would call readily available.
I am selling as spare or repairs as one of the bass unit voice coil scratches slightly which would suggest the voice coil has dropped, or what was more common the magnet moved slightly. They can be brought back to full working spec that I am sure. They sound beautiful aside from that.
The crossovers are good, but depending on your view on originality I would swap the caps out for modern Solen units. This always tends to bring the sound back from being nice to superb.
Spendor did a limited edition of these in 1994 as a homage to the original design of these 2 way units calling them the BC1/69.
The following will help you understand the history of the BC1 a bit better:-
https://www.markhennessy.co.uk/rogers/ls36.htm