Any Opinions on Tannoy Speakers?

While back home in Ireland over Christmas, I bought the British Hi-Fi News Record Review year-end special on hi-fi awards. In the magazine, the TD12 won best speaker of the year or some such award. Here's the speaker:
http://www.tannoy.com/frame.cfm?ID=1&D=1

Looks like it would score very high on the WAF.
Good luck,
John.

i couldn't disagree more with marakanetz about the aesthetics (read: WAF) of the tannoy churchill's. until tannoy decided to stick that crazy flying saucer (super tweeter) into the top of the cabinets, the churchill's in rosewood were, IMO, one of the most attractive "large" speakers available. the V-for-victory front ports and silhouette of winston on the speaker diaphragms are way cool. moreover, these beasts, coupled with low output tubes from airtight, have produced, for me, some of the most startling nearfield listening i've ever experienced. i dream of using a pair of these beauties as fronts in a gigantic tube-powered ht system.
-cfb

Listened to the D900 last year and fell in love with it, but could not afford to buy it. Spent 2 hrs in a audio shop with many types of music. Boy did they ever excell in female and male vocals. Felt like the people were right there with me playing their instruments. Even took my amp to audition with, which was 300/ch McIntosh. I have a large listening room 13' x 25'. Tannoy is definately my next speaker purchase. And If I ever want to go to tubes, no problem with them.

I have owned and used Tannoy speakers for the last 20+ years. Accurate debateable musical YES. The Churchills are definetly worth consideration.

I owned the D700's for 1 year... Depends on what you like... they have ton's of dynamics and "slam" and a solid three dimensional soundstage... they can play extremely loud and they don't lose any detail when played at low volume... I ran them with 80w of quality tube (monoblock)power... not enough... even though sensitivity is high, the nominal impedence is stated at 6 ohms and drops quite a bit...to get the best out of these speakers you need a good solid state amp with power to spare... I say a good solid state amp, because the one weakness of this speaker is the highs can be bright... ultimately, that was the reason I got rid of them... I was simply getting listener fatigue on anything but the most perfect recordings... I talked with the distributor and he agreed that my findings were not uncommon and suggested a fix where I would have to slightly modify the cross-over... I decided not to... One other consideration, the D700's move a lot of air... they have dual ports at the back of the speaker...you need to keep them a good distance from the wall... I think this speaker is a better choice for home theater, but if you decide to go with it don't underpower it and make sure you have good upstream components that mitigate the potential brightness..... now, the Churchill is a whole different animal and none of what I stated above applies to it...good luck....