Lockwood Loudspeakers

LE1

Holographic imaging from a 15-inch point source.

The LE1 is a two-way floorstander for listeners who want the performance of a much larger and more expensive design in a cabinet that fits a real room. Its 15-inch Lockwood Green HPD/SL point-source driver provides linear amplitude and phase for a genuinely holographic soundstage, with distortion-free presentation and fast, accurate, deep bass. It is the speaker on which albums by Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Queen and Black Sabbath were mixed — and Elton John and Pete Townshend both owned custom-cabinet pairs at home.

At a Glance

●15 inch (385 mm) Lockwood Green HPD/SL

●2-way point-source design

●23–20,000 Hz

●95 dB sensitivity (2.83 Vrms, 1 m)

●8 Ω impedance

●Vented 18 mm birch ply cabinet

●Lockwood A Series crossover

●602 × 445 × 1110 mm (W × D × H)

●48 kg each

●Walnut veneer finish

●Handbuilt in the UK

Key Features

Holographic Imaging

The 15-inch point-source driver keeps amplitude and phase linear across the crossover region, so instruments hold their place in a soundstage you can walk around rather than one that collapses off-axis.

Audiophile Performance

Exceptional detail and clarity, an incredible midrange and crystal-clear highs — sonic performance that competes with far larger and more expensive designs.

Quality Construction

Hand-built crossover components and OFC internal wiring keep the signal path short and clean from binding post to voice coil.

Technologies Inside

Point-Source Drive Units

One driver. One point in space.

Every Lockwood is built around a single Lockwood Green HPD/SL drive unit in which the high and low frequencies radiate from the same point. Nothing is split across two boxes of air, so the music arrives at the listening seat as one coherent event — with the time coherence, low colouration and natural vocal reproduction that made these cabinets the studio reference.

The point-source principle is what a monitor needs and what most domestic speakers give up. Because the tweeter sits at the acoustic centre of the bass cone, the two arrive together at every seat in the room rather than only on one narrow axis — which is why engineers could trust a pair of Lockwoods to tell them the truth about a mix. The driver is made in four sizes across the range: 15 inch (385 mm) in the Major, LE1 and Academy II, 12 inch (315 mm) in the Academy 1, 10 inch (295 mm) in the Mini, and a 5 inch (127 mm) Alnico unit in the Mini Major and the Universal Stanley models.

A Series Crossover

Hand-built, and kept out of the way.

Every model in the range uses the Lockwood A Series crossover — hand-built from premium components and wired internally with OFC cable. The design goal is a signal path short and clean enough that the drive unit is the only thing shaping the sound.

Birch Ply Cabinets

18 mm birch ply, built in the UK.

Cabinets are made from 18 mm birchwood ply using construction techniques refined over nearly a century — vented on the Major and LE1, infinite baffle elsewhere — then finished in walnut veneer, or in any Pantone colour on the Universal Stanley models. The enclosure is treated as part of the acoustic design rather than a box to put a driver in.

Gallery

A closer look at the LE1.

Experience the LE1

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For complete specifications and technical details, visit the official Lockwood website.