spendor bc-1

They are still great speakers, I had them starting in 1970 and was a dealer for them for years. The STC-Coles super tweeter and Celestion HF 1300 tweeter are no longer in production; Spendor has switched to Scanspeak in later versions of the speaker, which is still being made. They will not play all that loud but at least as loud as , say , a Quad 63. On voice they are hard to beat; when I had my Apogee Duetta Signatures and my SP 1s [later version of the BC 1s] set up together I spent most of the time listening to the SP 1s. Check the Spendor forum on line for further info.

Don't worry, they can take more than 50 watts if it is clean power and not applied continuously. A speaker rated at 50 watts continuous can take 500 on peaks; most speakers are damaged by too little power; not too much.