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    The original HPD295A Eatons are really nice, I've had five pairs over the years. The classic 'pepperpot' compression driver speakers appear to have a little extra magic, that to me, seems to elude the later Tulip Waveguide models. There's not much in it, but it's there.

    If you want to play with Class D on the cheap for a bit of fun, You could try the tiny Breeze Audio TPA3116 amp. It drove my Tannoy Cheviots just fine and sounded remarkably good. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Digit...4AAOSwfZtbC5ic There have been good reports from members.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    The original HPD295A Eatons are really nice, I've had five pairs over the years. The classic 'pepperpot' compression driver speakers appear to have a little extra magic, that to me, seems to elude the later Tulip Waveguide models. There's not much in it, but it's there.

    If you want to play with Class D on the cheap for a bit of fun, You could try the tiny Breeze Audio TPA3116 amp. It drove my Tannoy Cheviots just fine and sounded remarkably good. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Digit...4AAOSwfZtbC5ic There have been good reports from members.
    Thanks, I have never tried those. I tried a SMSL AD18 on Tannoy Devon, it was okish. Really impressive and clean sound, but from mi-volume, the sound was getting horrible. I guess it was due to an average power supply, as it's often the case in amplifier.
    Would you recommand any powersupply with the Breeze Audio ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    The original HPD295A Eatons are really nice, I've had five pairs over the years. The classic 'pepperpot' compression driver speakers appear to have a little extra magic, that to me, seems to elude the later Tulip Waveguide models. There's not much in it, but it's there.

    If you want to play with Class D on the cheap for a bit of fun, You could try the tiny Breeze Audio TPA3116 amp. It drove my Tannoy Cheviots just fine and sounded remarkably good. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Digit...4AAOSwfZtbC5ic There have been good reports from members.

    I am told by a certain Tannoy reproduction engineer well known to you all that

    the newer waveguide models such as tannoy eaton legacy have more immediacy from their tulip waveguides not less, due to raised and more linear HF output which extends well beyond those of the older pepperpots which roll off at circa 18KHz.

    he pepper pots used a magnet which was deeper allowing the horn to be long enough so that the inverted signal from the compression driver (inverted via the drilled phase cap to form a virtual signal propagation point within the horn mouth) lined up phase correct with the LF voicecoil. This was only possible with the older drivers shared magnet AlNiCo motor and the newer pepperpot 15 inch models. The new ones could have employed a similar horn length and phase relationship with the tulip waveguide but chose not to....for what reason I don't know, so the new ones are not phase corrected despite the blurb. If only Tannoy had employed a physically phase corrected tulip waveguide, it would have bettered the older ones by quite some margin in every respect!

    Interestingly, neither are time aligned. The older pepper pots and newer pepper-pot ones ARE phase aligned though...two separate things.
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    Hi Ben
    Welcome to AOS ams sure you will enjoy your time here
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    Quote Originally Posted by hifinutt View Post

    the newer waveguide models such as tannoy eaton legacy have more immediacy from their tulip waveguides not less, due to raised and more linear HF output which extends well beyond those of the older pepperpots which roll off at circa 18KHz.
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    Ah Geoff, that's not marketing blurb , it's a well known engineer we all know
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    As I said, believe what you like.
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    Ah well Geoff, one thing we do agree on is they love class D !
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    Welcome to AoS Benoit,

    There are many Tannoy fans here, so you will find yourself in good company.

    Enjoy the Forum
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