I heard a pair of UL6 a few months ago - I was amazed at the natural and open quality of the midrange. Very nice indeed.
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I heard a pair of UL6 a few months ago - I was amazed at the natural and open quality of the midrange. Very nice indeed.
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Just as an aside, after I bought the DL6 the whole range was examined my Martin Colloms for HFN; he liked them - apart from the DL6 and actually said how much better the Tannoy Mercury was. I was gutted and soon replaced the excellent sounding sixes with some truly awful Musical Fidelity MC4.
I was only a teenager with very little self belief and it was some years before I learned to trust my own judgement and ears.
Nowadays I know that Colloms and I differ strongly about what good sound is..... C'est la vie!
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Didn't Martin Colloms have a say in the Mercury design and/or "voicing?" or was it the Mercury 2? Once he'd "consulted" on products, I understand they then spent some time in his "reference systems." That's what I was told anyway.....
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Stop being so diplomatic Dave... They were bloody terrible.
I bet Marco's Tannoys have wallowy one note bass as well....
( sorry Marco: it's the devil in me!)
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You should hear them.
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A mate of mine had some Tannoy Mercury M3's in about 1997. They were dreadful. Bass was definitely a weakness. Just dreadful.
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I'm enjoying myself so much here that I'm thinking it's probably worth it to upgrade some of the crossover components on these.
I spotted 3 white ceramic sound coffins which could be changed for something less destructive like Mills.
There are 3 capacitors too. They all look electrolytic. Can't see all the values. One is 4.7 uFD. Not sure about the others. A tweeter damping resistor wouldn't hurt either although to be honest the treble is really quite nice already.
The binding posts aren't exactly fabulous either and the crossover is built on the back of same.
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No, you're absolutely right. I love wallowy bass, almost as much as I do a good buggering by a Bulgarian builder
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What's a wallowy bass? Ive ni eard that technical term used efore!
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