Does speaker size matter!

[DSJR]

Perhaps in some cases that's true, Dimitri (again one must be careful not to fall into the trap of abolutes), but I can assure you that the midrange on my Tannoy Monitor Golds (along with sheer scale) is one of their major attributes. Like anything else in hi-fi, it's all to do with implementation.

The Tannoys in Lockwood cabinets are superior in that area to any other 'conventional' speaker I've heard so far. Indeed, they are miles better in that repect to the 3-way Spendor SP100s they replaced - one of the BBC designs for broadcasting/monitoring purposes famed for its midrange neutrality, or indeed any other 3-way speakers I've heard so far

Marco.

Marco, I'm sure your amps are truly wonderful, but they're still *only* 30WPC, which means that the Spendors you had were probably clipping the amps on peaks at the levels i expect you listen at. The Tannoys of yours have several db more sensitivity at least, so I suspect your amps are far happier with this and never straining at high levels..

Dimitri, sorry to disagree with you, but so I've been told by speaker designers I knew, the dome ISN'T the best form to use. In fact, the best tweeter form would be a sort of cone/dome with the coil about half way along the profile I understand..

Mid domes, I think, have a very narrow operating range with severe breakup outside of this "ideal." making the things out of beryllium may improve things in the passband, but the supposed Hi-Q resonances outside of this don't bare thinking about, if the doped fabric ATC mid dome behaviour is anything to go by.

Another huge can of worms and it would take a properly experienced speaker drive unit designer to explain it properly with facts to back it up. My sources for countless conversations were Elac/TDL/Musical technology's Clive Gibson and the legend who is Epos/Mordaunt Short/MA/Audiomaster's Robin Marshall..