Thanks for that, Guy. I'm sure the trip will prove to be enlightening on a number of levels :)
I'll be taking my Croft pre and Copper amp down, along with a ton of familiar music, so experience should tell which option will be right for me.
I am rather intrigued though with the Lockwood Majors, given their studio monitor pedigree and provenance from being used in the production of music at some quite famous recording studios.
I do like genuine monitor designs, as they tend to give an insight into music and level of analysis which is often missing in designs more intended for the domestic market; indeed it was the BBC heritage of the Spendors and their famed midrange neutrality (and how this impacts on music) which attracted me to them in the first place.
What I'm looking for is something that allows me to hear 'right into' recordings so that the music is laid bare for inspection in all its glory and reproduced with genuine realism and scale, but without the overtly 'clinical' style of presentation often delivered as a by-product.
I can cope with something that is ruthlessly revealing because I now have source and control components of a high calibre, so what I'll hopefully be hearing is simply what's on the recording with as little artifice as possible imposed by the source signal.
Anyway, it'll be fun going on this particular voyage of audio discovery and I'm sure that whatever large Tannoys I return with will complete my system very nicely indeed and provide me with many years of musical satisfaction :cool:
I'll keep you posted!
Marco.
