Is it possible with SN to determine where Tannoy Speakers circa 2021 were made ?

Did you try Tannoy?

I’m gonna say Scotland.

Unless it's the Reveal Series, then China.

It’s so hard to get any "real" info out about Tannoy production. Very frustrating. You might need to clarify whether 2021 is the target date for purchase or production. And I assume you mean Legacy & Prestige series, since lower lines were already moved off to China much earlier on. Based on no concrete evidence at all, a 2021 purchase of Legacy & Prestige series seems like it would almost certainly be Scotland production. Well, at least as far as that goes - drivers, crossovers, and assembly? Rumor has it the cabinets themselves had been made elsewhere in Europe, since a long time ago.

Kevin Deal / Upscale was claiming continued Scotland production right up to the end when it all came crashing down. But it always smelled a bit funny to me. More likely they ramped up production from the Scotland factory right until its close, and then sold off that stock over time until new production from China was ready to take over. Very nice of them to save loads of money on production and pass exactly ZERO of that to the customer

We started seeing a few pics here-and-there of DC drivers with boxes stamped from China, a few years ago. Nice stuff, like the Kensington drivers - at the very least, it looked superficially looked legitimate, and appropriately high quality? You can’t really "fake" the alnico magnets, paper cones, cloth hard edge surrounds. That’s something I seriously dislike about the Fyne approach - rubber surrounds, synthetic cones, only ceramic and neodymium magnets?? Ugh. All the wonderful "old world" approach & materials the Japanese fans had pushed for, is gone again.

Thanks.

yes was specifically referring to legacy and prestige.

i know the serial number label and front plates were changed to remove references to “made in Uk” or made in Scotland”  but i was hoping there was some sort of serial number cheat sheet.

i know the serial number label and front plates were changed to remove references to “made in Uk” or made in Scotland” but i was hoping there was some sort of serial number cheat sheet.

No idea if they changed it for China production, but the old scheme was generally:
{product + part number}{date stamp}{unique serial #}

The 1st part should be 8 digits. So for example, my Canterbury SE has serial: 80004930120920 532701
The 80004930 is for the Canterbury SE product, and 120920 means its production date was September 20, 2012, and 532701 is what makes it a unique serial # (I think that's right). This format should even hold for driver parts.

If they kept the same scheme, you can at least derive the date of production and make an educated guess on its country of origin. And if it’s a totally different scheme, well then you can probably guess it’s from China!