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Studio Sound's 'bench test' loudspeaker reviews continue with the SA300. Keith Holland reports
The Spendor SA300 is a 2-way active loudspeaker with a built-in amplifier and crossover package. The low frequencies are handled by a nominally 200mm diameter cone driver, and the high frequencies by a 25mm soft-dome tweeter that fires through a shallow horn waveguide. The cabinet has dimensions of 470mm x 250mm x 340mm deep, a slot-shaped port on the front panel beneath the woofer, and front panel edges that chamfer towards the top of the cabinet to a depth of 25mm. The rear panel has a large heatsink with vertical fins, an IEC-type mains socket, an XLR-type input socket, and controls for gain, LF cut, LF tilt and HF tilt. The LF cut switches the cut-off frequency of a 'subsonic' protection filter to either 50Hz, 70Hz or 90Hz. The LF tilt gives up to 3dB boost or cut...