{"id":658,"date":"2013-09-02T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storycase.co.uk\/radio\/?p=658"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:40:46","slug":"rogers-studio-1-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storycase.co.uk\/radio\/speakers\/rogers-studio-1-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Studio 1 Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rogers won fame and fortune producing monitors for the BBC. The LS 3\/5a is one of the classic models associated with Rogers. At 15\u03a9 the LS 3\/5s were not suited to the higher power levels I preferred, so I bought a pair of the commercial Studio 1 speakers in the 80s from Reigate HiFi. I think they cost around \u00a3450 at the time – an ex demo pair. Remember bringing along a portable Sony CD player with a selection of ‘test’ CDs including Simply Red and how the guy in the shop insisted the CD player is placed on a foam mat to prevent ‘feedback’ as he’d learnt applied to analogue turntables. How naive these folk were I thought.<\/p>\n

The Studio 1s sounded fantastic with more depth to the bass than I’d heard before from 16 bit sources. Vinyl also sounded crisp with the brightness of the Doobie Brother’s 12 strings silky smooth. I only wish I could appreciate these sounds now.<\/p>\n

Over the years I’ve lugged the Studio 1s from country to country, retaining the padded cardboard boxes they first came in. They’ve been driven from a variety of sources but never hard. My favourite source is the discrete Mosfet power amplifier<\/a> built a few years before the Rogers. These pump out around 75w RMS – not too much for the Studio 1s that can suffer if subjected to much more.<\/p>\n

Each speaker comes with a graph\u00a0plot showing frequency response. There are three drive units and a bass port that combine to give a near flat ( \u00b12db) response between 45Hz and 20KHz. Much higher than I can now hear \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

The Studio 1s are now relegated to the den having been replaced by slim line Kefs and a sub for movies for every day use. It’s a shame as these speakers were\u00a0made to be listened to.<\/p>\n

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Rear label from Rogers Studio 1 loudspeakers<\/p><\/div>\n

For more details on the Rogers Studio 1 and other Rogers speakers see Mark Hennessey’s excellent Other Rogers Models<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rogers Studio 1 Documents – PDFs<\/h4>\n