The New Graham Audio LS8/1 Video Review! (..is that the Spendor BC1 standing next to them? Why yes!) 

Sounds like you need Stirlings v3 ls3/5as and the AB-2s plus an RME ADI-2 FS with configurable loudness curves for different volumes.

I just heard them … they are mesmerizing! It’s a must listen to speaker.

Looking forward to the review and comparison to other graham speakers and also the SB 3/6.

Looking forward to your follow-up videos on the comparison of BBC-style speakers and the LS5/8 👍

Nice review as always! Thank you for that!

Very interesting overview of these speakers. Sadly, I think my room is too small for these wonderful speakers (4m x 4.5m), especially as you commented on your own listening room which is a tad larger. Also, wonder whether my Leben CS600x would drive then successfully? Should I buy? Presently using Harbeth P3XDs on Ton Trager stands and fronted by a Well Tempered Versalex/Dynavector 17DX.

I made a mistake. I meant the LS 5/9 instead of the LS 3/5.

Looking forward to your LS5/8 review. Linchpin to deal with might be driver integration (by that I mean frequency response in the crossover region and thinkable directivity issues with these two rather unequal drivers). .....But let's wait with some pleasant anticipation.

Christmas greetings from Germany and thank you for the interesting videos. I plan to purchase a Graham Audio speaker, but I am unsure which one. Could you provide a short comparison of the characteristics of the LS5/5, LS3/5 , LS5/8 and LS8/1? Thanks.

is the best of those the Graham LS 5/8❓

Thank you for the very insight full first description of the LS 8/1. I already had a Spendor SP 1/2 in the early 1990's. My first BBC like listening experience was a BC1 at a dealer as a teenager when I could not afford it, and that was one of the sound impressions of life that you do not forget. But already in the 1990s, a BC1 was already almost impossible to repair with the spare parts and the SP 1/2 played satisfactorily. I bought an original Rogers LS5/9 from BBC Studios cheap on ebay 27 years ago, I had to replace the tweeters and fortunately Audax had reissued this type. I had compared my visually badly damaged wreck, which was technically good, in a hi-fi store with a then new Harbeth Monitor 30, with the same dimensions, and I liked the old Rogers better. But I completely agree with you, as you replied to someone else here, the LS5/9 is exceedingly precise and more a very high quality tool. It is also very merciless in the bass. The LS5/9 is not interested in reproducing deeper bass. Unlike an LS3/5a, it doesn't even try to fake bass, on the contrary, the LS 5/9 is rather austere and not "cozy". For this reason, in addition to a SB LS 3/5 V2 (since 2006), I have a SB LS 3/6 since 2016, fulfilling my longing that I sometimes felt because for many years the SP1/2 is no longer there, and I think that the SB LS3/6 does even better so. I must add that I hear different speaker concepts for different competencies. Of course an LS 3/6 doesn't have the dynamics as a Klipsch Jubilee, which BTW I don't listen to loud to the Klipsch, even if they look like. But the colorfulness and the almost paradoxical mixture of emotional sonority and also this sober coloration-free imaging of the SB LS 3/6 are not achieved by the other speakers, the LS 3/6 Type of speaker (not only the SB incarnation I would say) adresses mind and heart at the same time. The sound of the LS 3/6 never tires me, if I don't listen too loud. There is only one point of criticism and that is that the speaker unconsciously educates me a bit what kind of music I listen to, I drift more into classical music or Voices, Piano classical guitar etc. So Miles Davis or Art Farmer with six horn players on the Klipsch or big Tannoy seems a bit more realistic to me. But still, if I had to go to the famous island with only a type of speakers, it would be the Stirling Broadcast LS 3/6, because with it it's all about "listening in" and less about "being exposed". Now, getting back to the topic of your video, I'm very curious to hear your future impressions of the new LS8/1 from Graham Audio compared to the SB LS3/6. Even if you like the LS 8/1 better, I assume that the LS 3/6 will not fail completely in comparison. At least I will not exchange it, which I personally like very much, for "nuances", I have grown fond of it. Also financially it would be unwise for me to get used 2,800€ for the SB and pay 5500€ for the new GA. I would even guess that the speakers sound relatively related, since Derek Hughes also tuned the SB LS3/6. In the end, there may be differences in drivers, or whether one of the manufacturers uses MDF and plywood or only plywood, or other nuances of a very comparable concept, or in other words, of two interpretations of the same concept. Thanks for reading.

I’m late to the party but Hotter than July came out in the fall of 1980.

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These are x2 the price of LS6f or about that. Interested in how the two compare

I think the LS 8/1 are nice but over priced...In think i'd rather invest into the LS 5/8...unless your room is small

Oh gosh… I’d love to hear those.. Derek is my all time favourite loud speaker designer. Harsh BC-1!? No way.. they must be way out of spec if they were. The Celestion HF1300-Cole’s super tweeter is one of the best sounding ever.. that’s not just my opinion either. My good friend Ed Form (former technical director at Celestion) had told me the same. The fact that he rectified the fairly high rejection rate of HF1300’s for Derek himself, speaks volumes for the man. I must pop up and visit your place.. you’ve got some awesome kit. 😃

LS 8/1 only 6000 euro's more expensive than a good BC1 set.