Quote Originally Posted by The Black Adder View Post
sure, the Tannoy range is a great range but when you pay 15k from such a well known company you would only expect top notch workmanship throughout.
Yup. Quite simply, there is no excuse whatsoever for anything else!

If the 'high-end' audio industry wants us, as audio enthusiasts, to support it (and one of the ways of doing so is to buy new products) then it must do something to encourage us to invest our hard-earned money, not drive us away into the vintage arena, in order to obtain satisfactory sound-per-pound value from our equipment.

The only way I'd ever drop £15k on new speakers (and I have the necessary funds) is if I was guaranteed of getting a very difficult time obtaining the same sonic performance by going the less expensive vintage (modded) route. At the moment, the latter is a no-brainer - and not just with speakers!

What should I buy something new if it sounds worse than what I've got?

Marco.