Never won anything before........was invited to the Hi-Fi News magazine awards dinner, a black tie event with over 1000 industry peeps there. It is a proper awards event like you see on TV, with Video coverage, large screen at the back of the the huge stage at the Renaisssnce Hotel (Heathrow).

Anyway, it comes to the section for "Best loudspeaker under £ 1000" (BTW this it the most competitive market sector for compact, high quality speakers).............

So they anounce in reverse order 3rd place to Professional Monitor Company TB2 (PMC make speakers from £700 to £ 11,000), 2nd place to Sonus Faber "Signum" (sonus make speakers from £ 998 to £ 28,000 )

Then I'm thinking: Oh well, I CANT be in this section, maybe I'm in "best new product or some other catagory"

Then the host says "the winner is the Stirling LS3/5a V2"................

Went up and collected the A4 sized award, same size as the loudspeaker (see pics below), then I posed for press pics that will be in October edition of the magazine......

 

Congratulations Doug

 

Congrats

 

Wow, congrats Doug, sorry to sound dumb, but what exactly do you do for a living? make these?

 

well done dude

 

 

Bloody well done fella! That's one hell of a lot of competition you've beaten off there!

As cheeky as it sounds, can I borrow one to test it? (Much as I'd love to, I'm not sure could do it justice lol).

Out of curiosity, what do you do for amplification? Is there a certain amp you recommend?

/al

 

Wow excellent!!

On the off chance you dont have any cablinet plans for a 15" driver for outdoor / old warehouse use do you?

 

Damn,

should have asked you some advice before splashing out on my home setup a month ago

 

Yes, I make just the one product - the Stirling LS3/5a V2 loudspeaker (in a choice of 6 veneer finishes).........

These were designed by the BBC way back in 1972......Mine is a revamp/redesign of the original, so I called it the "V2" (Version 2), it sounds almost exactly like the original with a few tweeks to the responce/power handling to bring them up-to-date.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

 

Well done mate.

 

well done!

 

Just about any GOOD quality amplifier will be fine, but they work best with tube (valve) amps. Most customers use vintage or modern tube amps, or Pure Class A solid state amps.........The speaker is NOT amp fussy like others, so it is an easy load to drive (11 OHM nominal).

 

WOW!


Awsesome stuff Doug, thats fucking ace mate

 

Well done Doug. Great achievement, hope it helps push sales up, up and away

 

Superb mate Good to see your beating the high end competition!

 

Fantastic Doug, the sub £1000 market has to be huge! Get marketing and get selling

 

 

Great news mate, pleased for ya.

 

great news and sounds like a fantastic product

do you have a website or anything to have a look at?

 

that is class doug

so looks like ill be replacing my bose speaker system soon then

 

That's so cool!

I do read Hi-Fi News from time to time, as I'm a secret audiophile so very pleased for ya

 

well fooken well done mate, I have not fired up my NAD in ages

 

Good job Doug

 

Nice 1 Doug, we have a few sets of these at work in the demo room and they sound sweet

 

Well done doug now i guess you will need another reason to buy a ferrari Im sure this is going to make you even busier

 

Congratulations Doug.. top job that man

 

Wow
Congrats very surprised to see the BBC Monitors still being made, remember them years back, think Rodgers made them. Obviously much improved since those days.
WELL DONE.
Rod

 

Nice one Doug

 

Wow, well done

People do all kinds of different jobs on here!

 

that's amazing, congrats !!!!

 

Top banana that's amazing

 

Are you going to be like Oprah and give everyone on this thread one?

 

Awsome nice one Doug!!!!

When i get my own house, which wont be for a while, i shall be ordering som speakers of you

 

Congrats Doug, that can't have been an easy category to compete in! Which obviously goes to show the quality of the speakers you build!

 

Fair play Doug, that is seriously impressive. It looks so un-assuming too, non of this in your face stuff you can get.

 

paul have you ever seen a LEAK sandwich speaker

they look like shite but the sound soo cool ( btw im not anywhere near a expert )

 

Thanks again for all the kind comments..........

Over the years there have been some very bland looking and even downright ugly loudspeakers with stunning sound........
Quad Electrostatics - they looked like copper radiators.......
JR 149's (an LS3/5a clone but shaped in a cylinder) that looked like a waste paper basket.......
Magnaplaner - they looked like bed headboards.......
Loads of others

 

congrats doug




i have a 3.9 rear diff if you need it

 

Well done matey...

Have read the write up on your speakers and they are extremely proper things !!!..