Cost of 15" monitor golds

[Marco]

I wish I could find a set of 15" golds (that I could afford) to swap with my HPDs (soon to have new crossovers, I hope.

There's a lovely minty pair of Golds here, with a 'free' set of Lancaster cabinets, to boot: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tannoy-Mon...#ht_560wt_1413

As they say, hurry hurry, Mrs Murray!

Marco.

[jaym481]

Slightly raised resonance frequency (FS), slightly raised driver Q (QTS) & a reduction of driver VAS or compliance equivalent volume.

It means the driver will be usable in a more domestically acceptable enclosure, though it might not go quite as deep in the bass end.

E2A:- While it might not go quite as deep, it'll go louder in the bass it can reproduce! Given the correct enclosure loading..

I think that's the first time I've received a technical explanation that I could understand. T&S parameters have mystified me since I first encountered them and tried to design a small sub enclosure for my car (something more restrained and refined than the boot-filling door rattlers that seem to be most common.)

There's a lovely minty pair of Golds here, with a 'free' set of Lancaster cabinets, to boot: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tannoy-Mon...#ht_560wt_1413

As they say, hurry hurry, Mrs Murray!

Marco.

Been watching them, but they're outside what I have in the bank at the moment (or at least what the Chancellor will allow). I have enough set aside to sink into my HPDs that it'll take a while to build a fund for Golds (if someone bought the couple of things I have advertized...?) I've just commissioned Nick to build me an active crossover for the HPDs. Cost wise it was actually cheaper than scratch-built external passives (and only slightly more expensive than external passives using parts from my originals). I couldn`t resist that. I also have a lot set aside for some improvements to the source - looking at a 12" wand for the Morch.

[thebeathunters]

Silvers (any Silvers, early or late) will have a rather different sound from Golds, primarily due to being 15 Ohms, but also because speakers from that era were biased towards accurately reproducing midrange frequencies, as this was before the rock music era, and thus the need for really deep bass.

When I had 15" Reds (before swapping them for Golds), they also sounded rather different: superb in the mid, and better in that area than Golds (and those are no slouches there), but with limited low-end extension, which consequently meant that 70% of my music collection was sonically compromised.

If one lived solely on a diet of acoustic music, jazz, female vocals, choral, etc, then Reds or Silvers would be ideal, but not if what one listens to is mostly rock and pop - and they'd be a disaster with electronic and dance music!

For me, Golds are the best overall compromise, out of all the vintage Tannoy drivers. As for HPDs? I've yet to hear a pair that I could happily live with (compared with Golds) - certainly if a valve amp was in the equation

Marco.

i totally agree with you on the 15 ohms matter, red monitors were tailored for acoustic music but above all, VALVE AMPS!
as bass goes, it sure changes the whole sound experience. if there's bass somewhere on any lp or even cd's ( sometimes there's none, thanks to crappy remastering) be sure EL 84s or EL34s know how to slap them on the T's!
as for SS, only early class A such as sugden A21 dares to enter valve's bass territory and musicality.
frankly i'm still surprised how some deep house or trip-hop tracks sound good on the reds, too. even infra comes out of them.
back in the days they knew how to mix these tracks, long before mp3 design sound standards replaced studio mixing boards...