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During the 1980s, Rogers made the A75 and A100 amplifiers and the T100 FM tuner. Rogers also produced a pair of active subwoofers, called AB3a, which were designed specifically for the LS3/5As. The subwoofers were sold complete with their own electronic crossover, which used the same chassis as the
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In 1975 Michael O'Brien as chairman and Brian Pook as M.D. buy Rogers from the receiver. To do this
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TV screens. Although Wo Kee Hong owns the rights to the name, it had retained
Swisstone as the sole researcher and designers of the Rogers speakers, therefore preserving the brand's British origins for a while. In 1998 as a result of a dramatic downturn in its Asian exports, the company closed the
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The final, and often overlooked, speakers to be manufactured by Rogers in the UK with qualities that build upon the DNA of previous models, displaying hugely impressive musicality, soundstaging and the clinical monitor quality that rightly won Rogers many followers in the previous decades.
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work on acoustic scaling provided the basis for the LS3/5A. The outcome was then licensed to commercial speaker companies for production. Aside from Rogers, other manufacturers licensed by the BBC to produce the LS3/5a included
Chartwell,
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Jim Rogers, who set up J R Loudspeakers Ltd after the collapse of Rogers Audio, released the JR149 in 1977 using the same drive units as the LS3/5A in a cylindrical aluminium cabinet. A review of the JR149 in the May 1977
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last of its UK manufacturing sites, and moved all production to Asia. In 2018, Rogers moved back to the UK and started making hifi products such as LS3/5a and LS5/9 and valve amplification.
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