Lockwood Loudspeakers

Major

The studio reference standard, since the 1960s.

The Major is a two-way floorstander built around the 15-inch Lockwood Green HPD/SL point-source driver in a vented birch ply cabinet. Launched in the 1960s, it became the reference monitor in the control rooms at Abbey Road, Olympic, Chappell and Trident — the rooms where The Beatles, David Bowie, Queen and Lou Reed made records that are still the benchmark. It resolves genuinely low frequencies with tight, fast, controlled bass, and reproduces voices with the naturalness that only a single point source manages.

At a Glance

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

●2-way point-source design

●22–20,000 Hz

●95 dB sensitivity (2.83 Vrms, 1 m)

●8 Ω impedance

●Vented 18 mm birch ply cabinet

●Lockwood A Series crossover

●710 × 448 × 1135 mm (W × D × H)

●54 kg each

●Walnut veneer finish

●Handbuilt in the UK

Key Features

Point-Source Precision

The 15-inch point-source driver delivers outstanding time coherence, accurate articulation, extremely low colouration and remarkably natural vocal reproduction — the qualities a mastering room is chosen for.

Exceptional Bass Response

The vented birch ply cabinet effortlessly resolves genuinely low frequencies, delivering tight, fast and controlled bass with outstanding dynamic drive.

Quality Construction

Every detail inside and out is built for effortless natural sound, from the walnut veneer down to the hand-built crossover components.

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 Major.

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