From the early days of British sound reproduction, Paul Voigt was a great innovator who developed several new products including a high flux "power-energised" loudspeaker drive unit and horns using the "tractrix" contour. He designed the (still) renowned Domestic Corner Horn, released in 1934, and which, at the time, offered a sound quality and realism hitherto unheard of.

Shortly after, Voigt met O.P. Lowther of The Lowther Manufacturing Company and they joined forces with the same objective....... to develop the finest reproduced sound available.

After World War II, the new owner of Lowther, Donald Chave, (who had previously been Lowther's chief engineer), designed a permanent magnet drive unit based on Voigt's twin cone diaphragm assembly and so began the "classic" series of drive units with the prefix.. "PM".

Fortunately, for the audiophile and music lover, 75 years later, Lowther still manufacture a series of drive units which really can be described as "full range". When used with a well designed horn these drive units capably produce sound of astonishing realism and detail together with all the natural timbres of musical instruments as well as that of the human voice.

The high efficiency of this combination affords a dynamic range and depth of sound comparable only to the live performance, whilst the general requirement of one drive unit per enclosure, with no electronic crossover, provides the "single point" sound source necessary for a perfect stereo image or "sound stage". The sound "seems to come from behind the speakers" and with wonderful perspective and detail.

The unrestricted free-flowing quality of Lowther sound is further enhanced by the special stabilizer fitted to the drive unit which disperses the higher frequencies over a broad front, thereby obviating the listening fatigue caused by the directional effect of normal loudspeaker systems. It has been observed that the breadth of display goes beyond the confines of the listening room. A more common observation is that when listening to Lowther, it is "as though a curtain has been lifted" between the listener and the performance.