I agree with Lewis here. After hearing all the generalisations about Tannoys, many seem to come from non-Tannoy owners or people who've heard older units with poor cross-over design.

They have come a long way and are anything but a posh PA speaker.

The Prestige line is about as "hifi" as you can get in terms of refinement, tonal balance, imaging and timbre PROVIDING great care is made with the matching amplifier as this seems to make or break the performance.

As for the transition from little tweeter to big woofer, well that's not stricly true either in design terms. That big woofer is shaped and designed to operate well into the midrange with limited excursion (and low distortion) and the newer prestige ramge use compression drivers which use the cone as a horn for the mids then switching via the crossover to the tulip waveguide dispersion horns (or Pepper pot dispersion design) and the whole does sound pretty cohesive.

Get the amplification wrong and you can get an upper mid glary lift, so they are amplification critical. Just because they are sensitive does not mean that they will work with any amplifier, nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst many low powered amps will drive them, that in itself isn't a recipe for success with modern Tannoys.