Description
Some things can't be measured by size. The Lockwood Mini is a bookshelf monitor that fits easily on a rack but sounds like a studio rig behind it. This is the speaker that served as the standard for monitoring for the BBC and ITV for decades - and now it's ready to move into your living room.
The main thing that distinguishes the Mini from any other speaker in a similar price range is a 10-inch coaxial speaker with a point-source sound source. The mid- and high-frequency radiators are located on the same axis: the sound comes from a single point in space, without time delays between the bands and without the characteristic “blurring” that is given by conventional two-way designs. The result is the absolute naturalness of timbres, voices, instruments. You don’t hear “reproduction” — you hear the music itself.
The closed cabinet made of 18 mm birch plywood, veneered with walnut is not just aesthetics. The closed cabinet without a bass reflex gives clean, controlled bass without port resonances and hum. Every detail is processed by hand, the crossover is assembled from premium components — for the cleanest signal path from the amplifier to your ear.
The Mini was designed for precise monitoring in small spaces - and that's why it sounds so good at home. It doesn't forgive bad recordings, but it rewards good ones: a three-dimensional soundstage, tangible depth, images that literally "hang" in the air between the speakers. Nave Electronics, BBC, ITV - serious organizations with serious demands - chose it.
Classic proportions, a wide front panel, a full-size protective grille. No showy "high-end design" for the sake of design - just honest British restraint, backed by more than 90 years of tradition.