Spendor A7 (2008–2016)
The Spendor A7 was a floor-standing loudspeaker introduced in 2008, occupying the middle of Spendor's A-series range. It remained in production for a remarkably long eight-year run before being superseded by the A7-2 in 2016 — a sign of how well the original design held up. The A7 was a 3-way, 4-driver design, though it operated with a "two-and-a-half-way" electrical alignment: twin 7-inch (180mm) bass drivers handled the low end, a single 6.5-inch (150mm) midrange driver covered the crucial vocal band, and a 22mm wide-surround tweeter took the top. The crossover was set at 350Hz and 3.3kHz.
Little else is documented in the surviving record. No original retail price, physical dimensions, sensitivity, impedance, or frequency response figures appear in the period sources available. The A7 seems to have been a speaker that sold on reputation and word of mouth rather than spec-sheet bravado — and given its eight-year production run, that approach clearly worked. The period reviews praised its sound quality, with one reviewer noting that many speakers sounded colored by comparison with the Spendor Audio (August 1978, p.46).
- 3-way, 4-driver floorstander, 2.5-way alignment
- Twin 7" (180mm) bass drivers, 6.5" (150mm) midrange, 22mm tweeter
- Crossover: 350Hz and 3.3kHz
- Introduced 2008; replaced by A7-2 in 2016
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