![]() home studio applications) as well as being my hi-fi speakers. In the last 20 years the speakers have been used for monitoring work (i.e. Of course, my new speakers where miles apart from the KEF's which were then sold off. The cabinets had to be finished off in a DIY manner because of lack of facilities so, they were covered with cork floor tiles. For the same reason, he couldn't make the biggest cabinets so I ended up with Berkeley equivalents. He wouldn't make them out of marine ply, which was my first choice, because he had just moved house and had to make them in his kitchen (to the dismay of his wife). A friend of mine (who also made by bass guitars) built the cabinets out of high-density chipboard. TANNOY DUAL CONCENTRIC DRIVERS DRIVERSThese cost me £505 (Pounds Sterling) for the drivers and crossovers in 1985. TANNOY DUAL CONCENTRIC DRIVERS DRIVERSo I saved up and bought a couple of 15inch DC386 driver kits (DU386 drive units). One problem - I couldn't afford that kind of money!Īt that time, Wilmslow Audio carried Tannoy drivers. I remember hearing Billy Cobham being played full blast through the best equipment they could put together. I also had the opportunity of hearing some of the big hi-fi Tannoys being played in a shopping mall when the last of the real Manchester hi-fi shops went into decline and was taken over by Lasky's who didn't really know what to do with genuine hi-fi. My interest in Tannoys came from hanging around various studios in my band days - the Tannoys always sounded more musical than the JBL systems which always sounded too harsh in the treble area. I can't really remember how long I had them but I knew even then the importance of efficient speakers.īeing a musician (back then anyway), I was then inspired by Tannoy dual-concentric speakers. My first were a pair of KEF Concorde speakers. ![]() Surprisingly, I have only ever had two sets of hi-fi speakers. So, instead of being a review, this article is basically just a general overview of my speakers. The main reason I have not included this information before is because I have had them for so long that I find it difficult to compare them to anything else as I have not had anything else in my current listening area. I have, therefore, decided to write this article. Since starting this site, I have had numerous queries about what speakers I am using and then requests for further details after responding. The new speakers are far superior to the Tannoys in my existing system. Information Update: Since writing this article, I have now replaced these speakers with Audio Note Speaker Kit03 speakers. ![]()
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