#bbc monitor

Chartwell LS3/5 BBC Licensed Monitor Loudspeaker by Graham Audio

You meant to say LS3/5A correct? No, we meant LS3/5!

The LS3/5A was a commercially produced loudspeaker driven by the need of the BBC to monitor and assess broadcast program quality. It was derived from the LS3/5, which was conceived and developed by the BBC Engineering Department in the early 1970s. Having found no commercially produced small loudspeaker that met the requirement for naturalness and sonic neutrality, the BBC specifically set out to design a speaker to achieve natural overall sound quality and good dynamic range for monitoring broadcasts in tightly confined spaces.

Graham Audio has purchased the company and brand CHARTWELL and is manufacturing the most famous of all the BBC speakers under one of its most cherished names with the attention to detail and sound that made Chartwell so famous.

A Musicological Study of Ken Russell’s Composer Films – Part 2 (Monitor and Bartok).

Part 1.

BBC Monitor and the Use of Audio-Visual Form as Musicological Comment.

The medium that Russell first gained traction in was not in fact film but in television documentaries.  The flop of his first feature film, French Dressing(1964), marks the advent of his daring creativity entering into his work as television director; a role he had begun at the BBC for their documentary series,…