First tannoy dual concentric
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Reviewing quite a few as I do, you find yourself able to guess in seconds if it’s going to end in tears, and after a minute or so you have ‘triangulated the sound’ enough to see if your first thoughts were true. There’s something instinctively right about the sound of this loudspeaker. The crossover is a passive low loss second order low pass, first order high pass type. There’s an additional 150mm bass unit that works in parallel below 250Hz using a blend of paper fibres. The ‘6’ refers to its 6in dual concentric driver, which includes the 25mm PEI dome tweeter and the 150mm multi-fibre mid/bass unit, which crossover at 1.8kHz.
First tannoy dual concentric driver#
The Revolution XT 6F is the speaker chosen to debut this new driver in. The tweeter has been moved forward for better time alignment and a shallower but more flared waveguide is said to give better high-frequency directivity.
First tannoy dual concentric drivers#
Both mid/bass and treble drivers now use a single shared magnet and a special waveguide integrating a donut-shaped (Torus) tweeter diaphragm and bullet-shaped (Ogive) phase plug. Indeed, this year has seen one of its most radical redesigns, with a new Omnimagnet motor and Torus Ogive Waveguide. The driver has been refined over the years. This brings great phase coherence and better off-axis response too, making the speaker image far more accurate. A Tannoy dual concentric driver, however, will produce all the note’s spectral components from a single place at precisely the same time. Think of a violin playing a single note a standard speaker will have different parts of this (including its harmonics) coming from two or more points in space at the same time. Whereas normal speakers fire sound out at you from different places on the front baffle, Tannoy’s driver produces it from the same place. It soon found its way into hi-fi speakers, when Tannoy made a monitor for Decca recording studios. This was not sold in cabinets, but as research tools for testing microphones, due to the exceptionally flat frequency response. Its first dual concentric design – the Monitor Black of 1946 – was a coaxial speaker combining mid/bass and treble units in one drive unit. Still, because the concept is so old there has been plenty of time to refine it, and Tannoy came up with its own solution nearly 70 years ago. Moving coil drive units in a wooden box are the most common and simplest type to produce, but arguably the most flawed.
First tannoy dual concentric how to#
We all know what a good speaker should do, but how to do it is another matter altogether – there are many different ways of attempting this.
First tannoy dual concentric cracked#
There is a plastic dust cover on the back of the drivers, one of these is cracked however it has not effect whatsoever on the performance of the speakers.Vive la Revolution! Tannoy's XT 6F newly re-engineered dual concentric floorstanding loudspeaker Dimensions 41 inches (104 cm) long x 24 inches (60 cm) high x 17.75 inches (45 cm) deep. They cabinets and drivers are in very good condition, the drivers have been recently serviced by the Wembley Loud Speaker company who replaced the suspensions. These Universal Major cabinets can be used floor standing by removing the suspension brackets. Universal Major cabinets are similar in size to the standard Lockwood Major cabinet but they can be suspended from the ceiling using the ceiling mounting brackets which we will supply with the speakers, Lockwood Major cabinets were designed to be floor standing, most of the ones I have seen had an open bottom, the Universal cabinets are enclosed on all sides. We had a pair for Lockwood Majors loaded with 15" Reds in our first studio in 1975, they were very smooth sounding and very efficient. Later on Tannoy started making their own cabinets which were directed towards the domestic market and were much lighter in build than the Lockwood ones.
First tannoy dual concentric professional#
I understand that Tannoy & Lockwood had an arrangement whereby Tannoy would only sell their professional drivers to Lockwood and Lockwood would only fit Tannoy drivers into their studio cabinets. Tannoy speakers in Lockwood cabinets were widely used in professional recording studios in the UK during the 1970's and became the standard control room monitor speakers in London during that time.