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Thanks for asking. I'm still out of the country so no, won't be auditioning/buying until mid-October at the earliest.
Re UK made, the outlook is bleak: it seems that only high end floorstanders are still made in UK by a few manufacturers, and the medium sized standmount speakers (B&W606S3, Acoustic Energy 300/2) I've decided are probably most suitable for my living room (5.36m x 3.8m) seem designed in UK but put together in the PRC. So I'll have to bow to market forces. Depressing, but a fact of life. I assembled my first modest hi-fi setup in the 1970s and it was all UK made, with the possible exception of the cartridge on my SME 3009/II tone arm.
(I was employed in photo/hi-fi retail around 1970 when Black Sabbath started: afraid I didn't like them then, and metal has got even worse since!)
rgds S
@Sanglier , Spendor are based in Sheffield and their loudspeakers are home made. Probably explains why they’re so expensive but they are extremely good.