 In 1998 as a result of a dramatic downturn in its Asian exports, the company closed the last of its UK manufacturing sites, and moved all production to Asia, where it has resided since.LS3/5A
In the early 1970s, the BBC was in need of a small monitor speaker for use in restricted areas outside broadcast vans during location recording.To that end, they commissioned their Research Department to develop such a compact speaker, and an experimental loudspeaker developed during preliminary work on acoustic scaling provided the basis for the LS3/5A.