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#Original tannoy dual concentric pro#
In the 1970's, Tannoy started making its way into the Pro Audio sector, making their way into Abbey Road Studios. In 1947, Tannoy invented and launched their pioneering achievement the Dual Concentric Driver, a design which is still being used and further refined to this day.īy the late 60's, Tannoy had improved upon the original Dual Concentric design with the "Monitor Gold". In fact, the end of the second World War was announced by Winston Churchill "over the Tannoy's". In the 1940's, Tannoy became a household name after fitting their public address systems in many sporting venues and railway stations around the UK and were even utilised by the Ministry of Defence. In 1928, the name was changed to Tannoy, short for Tantalum-Lead Alloy. Fountain back in 1926 as the "Tulsemere Manufacturing Company. Hope this helps someone.Tannoy was started by Guy R. So in a nut shell, The Beyma's are an excellent Tannoy alternative that are more than worth an audition.
#Original tannoy dual concentric driver#
I have considered running a low pass filter to the second bass driver so that and the coxial will be fed from the same source at 4 ohms so the 2 way active can still be used. I do not want to lose the point source sound, so best way to go about adding the second bass driver. Which brings me to a question for the knowledgeable people on here that have just laughed at this rudimentary review. This will hopefully make one serious set of speakers. If anything, I am thinking of adding a second Down or rear firing Beyma low frequency driver to the planned 300+ litre cabinets. Personally, I don't see the need for any super tweeter or added frequency range of the treble. This is without the equaliser and the treble doo hicky turned back to mid way. I have found the Beyma sound to be slightly addictive and definitely enjoyable. I had never noticed any defect's or colouration in the sound of the Tannoy before ? It just doesn't sound as live or natural as the Beyma. In fact the Tannoy now sound's honky in the upper mid range compared to the Beyma. It sounds louder, clearer and more dynamic than the Tannoy. The top end has arrived with a vengence to make the Tannoy sound lifeless. I was thinking the engineer's didn't have a clue because compression driver was 16ohm and the dust cap is a thick material that does not appear to be very acoustically transparent. Had to hook up an equaliser to compensate for each speaker. I have never noticed a speaker burn in before, so what the f*** ? Yesterday I turned up the the treble annoucer thingy on the back of the box to try and get more top end out of the Beyma(Left the Tannoy mid way) and it wasn't enough. The more I listened, the dynamic's of the Beyma changed. Next day, God may have smiled upon the speakers overnight, because something happened. There goes the custom boxes, second amp and active. Round 1 to the Tannoy.Īt this point I was not happy as $1200aus dollars for 2 speakers that were not as good as a set of 40 year old speakers made me feel pretty ordinary. The Tannoy just sounded better, more like a hifi speaker compared to a PA speaker. The efficiency was similar between the speakers and they sound fairly equal in output. I played with the level meters on the amp like a balance knob and listened to one at a time and both together. The beyma sounded coney if that makes sense ? The top end was way down on the Tannoy and appeared to miss upper mid frequency's the Tannoy picked up. The Gold sounded much more airey with better fidelity in the mid and top end. Straight out of the box, the beyma sounded constrained compared to the Tannoy. Ok, so the source was a crapola Pioneer dvd player, Australian monitor K88 amp with speedwire cable and good quality RCA leads. The recommended crossover point for the Beyma's is 1.8khz and I think the Tannoy crossover is around 1k, not sure and it doesn't really matter to much at this point.
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However, it gave me a chance to compare apple's with apple's, so to speak. Obviously this is not the ideal set up for the Beyma as the crossovers were designed to suit the Tannoy's. Couldn't wait to have listen, so I took one of the Tannoy's out of it's cabinet and replaced it with the Beyma. Got the Beyma 15xa38nd's a couple of days ago.