RobHolt
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Ok update time.
Looking inside the cabinet revealed that the crossover was held onto the front baffle by those little plastic spring loaded posts use for circuit boards. These were intact and the bumping around had simply bounced the crossovers off the posts. One cap had also become detached in transit. With the cap resoldered and the board re-seated everything seems to be working as it should and a quick FR measurement gave the same results for each speaker.
My room has a nasty bump at 40hz and i noticed from the FR plot on the LGMs that they were -3db at 50hz and -8db at 40hz which bodes well for not over-exciting that room mode. Aperiodic loading pulls the 40hz figure to -10db.
So to the sound.
Compared to the Chesters these are a few increments better in all respects. The smaller Chesters actually go lower in the bass but the LGMs have it for agility and definition in this region. Big, clean, pitch coherent and effortless. These speakers love old reggae and dub, those rough n ready old recordings come across with bags of atmosphere and presence.
Vocals are nice and open and the soundstaging properties of the 10" unit in the Chester are taken a stage further. In this respect they are neck n neck with the Quad ESL for accurate lateral placement.
So, bashed cabinets apart I'm mightily impressed and on the basis of today's listening I predict that these will be staying put for a good few years.
There are bigger and better Tannoys for sure but I have absolutely no ambition to explore them for the foreseeable future.
Now the pron as promised. Shots at the end show the cabinet damage:
Looking inside the cabinet revealed that the crossover was held onto the front baffle by those little plastic spring loaded posts use for circuit boards. These were intact and the bumping around had simply bounced the crossovers off the posts. One cap had also become detached in transit. With the cap resoldered and the board re-seated everything seems to be working as it should and a quick FR measurement gave the same results for each speaker.
My room has a nasty bump at 40hz and i noticed from the FR plot on the LGMs that they were -3db at 50hz and -8db at 40hz which bodes well for not over-exciting that room mode. Aperiodic loading pulls the 40hz figure to -10db.
So to the sound.
Compared to the Chesters these are a few increments better in all respects. The smaller Chesters actually go lower in the bass but the LGMs have it for agility and definition in this region. Big, clean, pitch coherent and effortless. These speakers love old reggae and dub, those rough n ready old recordings come across with bags of atmosphere and presence.
Vocals are nice and open and the soundstaging properties of the 10" unit in the Chester are taken a stage further. In this respect they are neck n neck with the Quad ESL for accurate lateral placement.
So, bashed cabinets apart I'm mightily impressed and on the basis of today's listening I predict that these will be staying put for a good few years.
There are bigger and better Tannoys for sure but I have absolutely no ambition to explore them for the foreseeable future.
Now the pron as promised. Shots at the end show the cabinet damage:
, everything from the bass port to the pepperpot looks the same, (perhaps slightly scaled up? given the bigger driver size). Only the taps for adjusting the bass and treble response look different. I'm sure you'll enjoy them (for a long while, I hope).
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