- Tannoy dual concentric speakers drivers#
- Tannoy dual concentric speakers driver#
- Tannoy dual concentric speakers pro#
In controlled measurements in an ideal room, the concentric drivers, well placed on a suitable enclosure, should prevail, by at least a tiny margin. There are so many compromises made in designing a loudspeaker that I doubt the single point source concept outweighs all the rest. Especially the aspects that affect external looks, seem to more follow a fashion trend or wife acceptance criteria rather than solid engineering findings. Allowing for the technical solutions that have become obsolete or superseded by others, I find that many or most manufacturers of loudspeakers don't really use all of that expertise in their products. There has been a lot of research and a lot of expertise has been gathered over the past several decades. Problems including diffraction and directivity maladies due to the mid range surround affecting the tweeter's low end response made them introduce the uni-q in the entry level models rather than the reference. The midrange as well had to use a stronger magnet as it lost the core material.Īccording to KEF as well, it took them several generations to make coaxials sound good.
Tannoy dual concentric speakers drivers#
If they had a sales organization as effective as Bose or Klipsch, in older times until now- we'd likely see Tannoys all over the place, IMHO.Īccording to KEF, concentric drivers were not viable until neodymium became available as magnet material, offering strong but tiny magnets for the tweeter that needs to be tiny to fit within the midrange's voice coil area. It's just that, IME, the fact that Tannoy can't market or distribute their way out of the proverbial paper bag- that is why they're not any more popular than they are. That said- IMHO- Tannoys from the 1990s and newer (from the time of the Churchill Wideband and beyond)- they have seemed to consistently get everything pretty much right. And even there, there's some "quirks" about them (primarily small response deviations from flat response), that can make them not match what some people want to hear. Tannoy, IMHO, is about the only people who have reliably "gotten it right". Many fail the second (forcing the woofer to go too high in frequency, and/or rolling off in the top octave badly, which can result in harsh and/or dull soud), and even more fail the third (the tweeter gives up when asked to provide life-like transients). Sutherland has been retained as audio/video consultant to Big Picture.Dual concentrics are harder to do well than other designs- primarily, due to the difficulty of building a concentric tweeter that will simultaneously fit, cover the needed frequency range (from below 1KHz to above 20KHz, ideally), and handle the dynamics and max output level correctly. With assistance from Puget Sound and Light’s Kevin Sutherland, Gardner balanced the outputs of the six discrete channels of the surround system.
Tannoy dual concentric speakers pro#
Pacific Pro Audio (Seattle) principal, Michael Gardner, helped with equipment specification for the theater and finished out the installation. And I’m willing to prove it to anyone, anytime.” With the Tannoy system, I think we have the best sounding room of its size in the country. This sound system is jaw-dropping… I believe that sound is more than 50% of the high-definition theatrical experience.
“People who think they know sound listen to the Tannoy system we installed in the theater,” says Mark, “and they can not believe it. Two Tannoy B-950, dual 18″ subwoofers are used for the dedicated ELF (Effects Low Frequency) channel, and a Tannoy B-475, single 18″ sub for the center channel. Two pairs of i-12’s are installed on the side walls, and a single pair on the rear wall of the theater. The surround speakers (left rear and right rear discrete channels) comprise three pairs of Tannoy i-12 full-range, dual concentric loudspeakers that can produce as much as 126dB withĤ5Hz to 21kHz frequency response.
Tannoy dual concentric speakers driver#
The T300 uses a 12″ dual concentric driver capable of producing more than 131dB at full power. Based on my initial hearing, I’d have to agree, these are pretty special speakers.īehind the projection screen in the 35-foot x 50-foot theater space, are three Tannoy T300 loudspeakers for the Left-Center-Right channels.
The following is an excerpt from an article about another facility using these speakers (installed by a fellow who Tom introduced to these speakers. Seen above: Two JBL 15″ drivers in the yellow cabs, dual EV 15″ subs in the ported center cab, Bag End TA12c’s in center above, Tannoy T300’s outboard, JBL LSR28P and Tannoy monitors above.
Just what the doctor may have ordered for what we’re hoping for in the theater (something I hope to be writing about in more detail in the near future). Tom’s been testing out various combinations from the stash and I happened across a pair of these Tannoy 12″ Superduals on CL this past week.