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In Reply to: RE: We've missed you, Tom... posted by Ivan303 on March 23, 2021 at 19:55:59
I recently gave up full time RV living and moved into an apartment. I have a modest but pretty good sounding stereo and after I sort things out will be back with horns--604s and Tannoys are on my mind.
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Tom
I had an epiphany at your house in the early oughties listening to your Altec VOT rig. I had always liked horns, my dad built some DIY horns with mostly EV parts back in the early 60's, and they were inspired by a neighbor who had a very spectacular horn rig in his basement then. Horns just sounded more like live music, but it was only at your house that I realized where this preference really came from. It was the sound at the movies in someone's home that made me realize that this had been hard wired into my brain by the sound of those Altecs behind the movie screen all those years growing up. Horns fell on hard times with the appearance of ever cheaper and more powerful transistor amps in the late 60's and 70's, and the increasing influence of former underground magazines like Stereophile and TAS who didn't like horns. And horns came back big time when Sound Practices magazine exploded on the scene in the early 90's. You were a pioneer on the right side of history!
Paul
Yeah Paul, that's why I liked to give a system the Ben Hur test, to see if it could reproduce the first notable sound I heard--when I was 10 years old in 1959 seeing the roadshow version of Ben Hur and was thrilled by the opening blast of the overture music in all it's magnetic multi track splendor.
Tom the Tannoy XT Revolution Dual Concentric Series consists of two floor standing models two stand mount versions and a centre channel. I am running the smallest stand mount version the XT Mini a true DC with a woofer cone only 3.25" in diametre. In a modest living/dining room 14' wide by about 30' long I can make a lot of listeners think I am running subs. I do plan to include subs but not jut now. These remind me of ProAc tablets in the way they surprise you with dynamics and ease and how well they stage image and disappear. They took a long time to burn in from new and need attention to detail as to set up but it was worth the wait and effort. I have then set up in a ten foot equilateral triangle. I also bought a set of the larger stand mount model the XT6 but I prefer the XT Mini as it has a smaller tweeter comp driver diaphragm(about 3/4" in the XT Mini and 1" in the other stand and floor versions), if you wanted more level than the Mini the XT6 would be the go to version in my opinion. Check them out if you can. I have had Tannoy Silver (12") Monitor Gold (12") HPD (12" & 15") and some other assorted Tannoy and I think the XT is the very best they have done to date. My local dealer has an assortment of current Tannoy Prestige series and so far as the sound goes I would not trade for a Tannoy Canterbury (big bucks).
moray james
thereby raising the quality of the conversation in these parts.
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