Steve, would you talk about your Tannoys briefly?

This is a question for Steve, but I would also be interested in hearing the impressions of others as well.

Steve, you currently have Tannoy Monitor Gold 15"s but you used to have a pair of Tannoy Berkeley, I assume with HPD 15" drivers in them. Could you describe what you perceive to be the difference sonically between the LSU and HPD series 15" units? I would very much like to know what you have to say.

 

Anyone know which model of the Tannoy Golds were discontinued about 10 years ago? I had no idea there were different models.

 

Thanks for your reply Steve, but I'm puzzled. Didn't you have a pair of Tannoy Berkeley in your office at DCC for a time? Weren't those the pair that you gave away here a while back?

 

Okay, I must have been confusing my memory of the speakers in this photo (which are JBLs, right?) with a pair of Tannoys:

http://www.web-house.net/musik/stevehoffman/steve32.html

So the DMT-12s were the pair you mastered "Hotel California" on?

 

With all the talk of the Tannoy, I had been keeping a lookout for a pair in my neck of the woods. Can you beleive a pair of 15" Monitor Golds in Lancaster cab's became for sale in Iowa? Iowa of all places. Well, needless to say, I now own them since last Sat. Talking to the kid that got them. He informed me that he purchased them along with a Thorens TD124 MKII, and a MAC 240 at an estate sale. I guess they were owned by an older college professor who recently passed. The kid sold the MAC & Thorens already. The professor had good taste. They are in excellent overall condition. I have only had about 2 hours to listen but, my initial impressions are very good. They are not as "bright & detailed" as the Klipsch Cornwalls/La Scala's. They seem to have a "smoother & thicker" sound to them. I need more listening time for a real opinion. They are definitely keepers though. Bye Bye Cornwalls. The BASS....wow! More to come...