You should be reading this:
http://www.mhennessy3.f9.co.uk/rogers/service.htm
http://www.mhennessy3.f9.co.uk/rogers/ls58.htm
Strictly speaking, you are correct about the non passive LS5/8 but there was a passive version built by Rogers under another model number. Same cabinet, without the handles and same drivers but it had a very complex crossover. There was also yet another passive version made under the Chartwell name with subtle changes.I'd be wary of those one's on eBay. LS5/8s are an active design which used modified Quad amps with the crossover built into the amp (Chord amps on later models). That's what they are designed to use and that's what they should come with. There was no passive version. Minus the amps and with a dubious passive crossover, there's no knowing what they'll sound like ... Not right most likely ... Hence the price I suspect. With the right amps they tend to go for closer the £1k mark. The amps on their own are rarely seen. Whether they are worth £1k is another matter, but if I had a yen for them I'd want the proper rig. A friend of mine has a pair in his studio and I like them.
Alan Shaw's horror stories have a hidden agenda here, not for the first time.....Please be aware that the horror stories put about by Alan Shaw (Harbeth) about failing adhesives used in the drivers may actually be the case.
LS5/8's did the job for the beeb at the time, but they will have had nigh on thirty years of varying use/abuse and you won't know how good or bad they are until you've bought them. Why have they been de-commissioned in the first place? is it purely because they're surplus or is it because they're regarded as well past their best and in need of replacement? I don't even know if the drivers are servicable if there is a problem, sadly.
Sí, la otra caja es spendor bc3.This Roger lo compró para reparar y tenía el cableado roto. El filtro original, que vemos en la foto, es low pass o high pass?
Translation, please.
I’ve fixed the above links so they display correctly (you had some spaces in the bbcode).
I’ve no idea what speakers you have, but they are not 5/8s! Or at least they certainly don’t look like my friends pair, which have the Quad 405-derived active amps. The whole of the bass driver is on view with his and they look to have a very different tweeter too.