![]() ![]() Viewed as a bill of materials, very little leaps out of the page as being spectacular or unique to the A1. The Spendor is a two-way compact cabinet speaker. As such, can this unassuming little speaker cut it as a serious competitor for your money at the £1,000+ point? This is a speaker contesting a very hard fought part of the market and while the Classic variant belongs to a range of products that can pull at the nostalgia angle, this one can’t. With the Tannoy, the asking price and traditions of what the company does as a speaker manufacturer go some way to explaining the rationale behind its reappearance in 2016 but the Spendor is a more interesting case. This is one of two speakers we’re looking at in short order (the other being the Tannoy Legacy Eaton) that make use of design thinking that dates back decades. The decision to use S3/5 ‘DNA’ in the A1 is interesting. The A1 as noted heads up the A line while the retitled Classic 3/5 starts the – you’ve guessed it – Classic line. The result is an unusual situation where two nearly identical speakers are members of two different ranges. This was the S3/5R2 which has also been recently updated. ![]() You see, while the A1 is different to its direct predecessor the SA1, and the superior and current D1, it is rather more similar to the only other Spendor speaker we have reviewed on AVForums. Those of you with good memories might be a little confused by just how ‘new’ the A1 actually is. He is a Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness in San Francisco he has also taught at Wisdom University in Oakland, CA, and the Pacifica Graduate School in Santa Barbara.Īmong his publications are over 160 articles in professional journals and the books: Beyond the Brain The Cosmic Game Psychology of the Future The Ultimate Journey When the Impossible Happens Books of the Dead Healing Our Deepest Wounds Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art Beyond Death The Stormy Search for the Self Spiritual Emergency and Holotropic Breathwork (the last four with Christina Grof).The Spendor A1 is a two-way standmount loudspeaker, the smallest member of the new A line of speakers from the company. ![]() He connects the holotropic to the Hindu conception of Atman-Brahman, the divine, true nature of the self. Grof connects the hylotropic to the Buddhist conception of namarupa ("name and form"), the separate, individual, illusory self. According to Grof, contemporary psychiatry often categorizes these non-ordinary states as psychotic. The holotropic is characteristic of non-ordinary states of consciousness such as meditative, mystical. The holotropic has to do with states which aim towards wholeness and the totality of existence. The hylotropic mode relates to "the normal, everyday experience of consensus reality". Grof distinguishes between two modes of consciousness: the hylotropic and the holotropic. Grof is known, for his "cartography" of the deep human psyche and breathing techniques for exploring non-ordinary states of mind. Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with over sixty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and one of the founders of transpersonal psychology. ![]()
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