Tannoy Convert

Hi all my Tannoy Berkeley speakers turned up today with 15" HPD's

Very nice sound indeed I was a tad worried given the sound of my previous speakers. I would like to take the dust caps off but am worried about damage any advice ?

 

Yes, don't bother you wont get any improved performance and will slaughter their resale value.

 

Why was you worried about your other speakers sound, and what were they?

 

chris , call me or speedie , glad you got them, welcome to the members club.

 

I did like my other speakers alot so was worried about the outlay on Tannoys - Monitor Audio RS6

Cheers Nando

 

Hi Chris, welcome to the Tannoy DC fan club. As others will say, don't remove the dust covers, just enjoy the speakers.

 

I played around with dustcaps when I repaired the surrounds on some 12" HPD's a few years back - started off with the original ones, then with none at all, then tried the later plastic more open mesh type found on LRM/SRM's.

My conclusion? Didn't make any difference at all that I could discern - or that I could at least be sure of.

Also, it's very difficult to remove them without causing a tiny bit of damage, or at least leaving a fair amount of the old glue on the cone (which looks nasty) - which is why I eventually put some back on again in all honesty - covered it all up again!

Leave 'em be.

 

Ok will leave well alone cheers all - Thinking about cab designs though

Our resident genius steve - or maybe one of these two

http://www.44bx.com/tannoy/mods.html

http://www.hilberink.nl/codehans/tannoy88.htm

 

I'd pick Steve's cabinets over these. Horn loading seems to give them so much more life.

 

But have you heard Tannoys in cabs as large as the ones in that first link Dev?

I heard some 12" Golds in a VERY large pair of diy bass reflex cabs (must've been 250L+) and they sounded immense, so I wouldn't discount all non-horn loaded cabs as bass reflex still seems to be a popular option for most.

That said, I think rect GRF's look great and aren't too huge, so I'd still like to try some scaled down versions for my 12"-ers one day.

 

No I haven't Dave, but I couldn't imagine them being bettered, but of course it's only an opinion and I could be wrong. Also I think Steve's cabinets look better.

P.S. what does scaled down mean? .

 

Interesting to hear another journey - forward to the past (when it comes to speakers)

I had Monitor Audio Silver 9 I's that were bettered by ProAc D25's by some margin.
Then came the Berkeley's MKII's with 3828's and I preferred these overall to the ProAc's by some margin.
Then I built my first GRF cabs and true to most of what is written about them - another significant improvement.
Can't comment on other big cabs but have heard Ardens and they sounded like big Berkeleys more bass but still fat in one bass frequency.
The GRF back loaded horn seems to get over the problems of a ported cab and offer a texture and detail of mid and lower bass that many speakers just don't do.
Most recent comparisons I have made was hearing for a 2nd time some Avantgarde Duo's. Have 2 x twin driver bass subs and by the owners own admission the GRF's do something very right in that region! The rest of the Tannoy sound is pretty darn good too!

Horns are the future

 

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when ever you find yourself in the london area you are welcome to listen to mine,
nando.

 

Your quite welcome to listen to my 12" Monitor Golds in the Onken cabs. Not sure how far it is from Nottingham to "Living in Fear". jim.