Show Us Your Speakers!

[Macca]

They look great. In fact your whole system looks fantastic.

That red rug wants taking out and burning though

[farflungstar]

They look great. In fact your whole system looks fantastic.

That red rug wants taking out and burning though

Lol. It's claret, the photo is a bit over saturated - plus it's better sonically than the cow skin it replaced for reflections. eyebrowz

[walpurgis]

Is this better?

[jandl100]

They look great. In fact your whole system looks fantastic.

That red rug wants taking out and burning though

No! The rug looks good.

It's the speakers that want burning. (posted by Tannoy Hater Supreme ).
--- no offence intended. ANE now Tannoy. We are just on a totally different planet, audio-wise.

[Marco]

Behave, you!

Love all your kit, Adrian, and I rate your speakers highly, as a good friend of mine and amplifier designer uses the very same. The only thing I can't get on with, and it's a personal taste thing, is that 'red mahogany' wood finish, as I'm more of an (light/medium) oak, or black kind of guy.

Don't mind the rug though, as it fits in with the rest of the decor!

Marco.

[farflungstar]

Is this better?

Lol yes.

[User211]

No! The rug looks good.

It's the speakers that want burning. (posted by Tannoy Hater Supreme ).
--- no offence intended. ANE now Tannoy. We are just on a totally different planet, audio-wise.

Haters gonna hate, as they say.

I reckon I could catch you out, though. I think if I placed a pair of Kingdom Royals behind a pair of curtains that were reasonably acoustically transparent, but not visually so, with Thrax amps and an MSB DAC, you'd like it.

Why? Because that combo sounds great and quite uncoloured in a big room i.e. quite un-vintage-Tannoy like. And indeed unlike the Prestige range or anywhere near Westminster Royal like (which I have always hated).

VFM is totally out of the window for that system but that isn't the point.

[jandl100]

Possibly.
I haven't heard all Tannoy candidates.
I recall a smallish pair of Edens (?) at the Scalford Show a few years back that seemed surprisingly enjoyable for the few minutes I was in the room.
And I managed about 4 hours with Tannoy 10 or 12" HPD in Lancaster cabs I was kindly loaned for my Scalford dem room one year before deep loathing started to set in.
So hoo nose?

[Marco]

I believe it's the Tannoy DC midrange 'honk' (and associated coloration), and which to his ears impacts so adversely on the music he likes, that's the reason for Jerry's hatred of Tannoys.

I can hear *exactly* what he means, and I'm afraid that although it can be tamed to some extent (and exists more in some models than others), it can never be cured, as it's inherent in the DC/horn-tweeter design, thus part of its sonic signature.

It doesn't bother me at all, as for me speakers, more than anything else, are all about choosing your compromises [as none are perfect], and to my ears, the sonic advantages of big Tannoy DCs vastly out way the negatives. I can certainly live with that type of coloration/limitation more than I can with that of some OBs or electrostatics...

However, each to his or her own. It would be a boring world if we all liked the same things!

Marco.

[jandl100]

Although I hate to say it - Marco is a remarkably insightful guy.
Yup, that honk stands between me and the music like the old Berlin Wall, barbed wire and machine gun towers included!

Others don't seem to even hear it, which I find distinctly strange.
Marco does hear it, but doesn't mind - which leaves me far happier!