Question Which UK-made speakers?

[Blacksabbath25]

Well did we end up getting a totally UK made speaker then

 

[Sanglier]

Well did we end up getting a totally UK made speaker then

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

 

[RayP]

@Sanglier , Spendor are based in Sheffield and their loudspeakers are home made. Probably explains why they’re so expensive but they are extremely good.

 

[Blacksabbath25]

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

Unfortunately you will be hard pressed to buy a totally 100% made speaker in the UK it maybe constructed here but some of the components would have been sourced outside the UK its just a fact of life now .

And you would be missing out on a good speaker that's made outside the UK so keep your options open .

 

[JoelSim]

I know. It's tragic.

If they were made here then they'd be much more expensive, and therefore wouldn't be cost competitive, meaning B&W would struggle and possibly go out of business.

It is what it is.