Best vintage Tannoy for rock?

Thanks Kiddman, now why do they like it without?

Islandmandan, I like the Dangerfield analogy! I also have heard Tannoy Edinburgh which were very nice. Very musical and enjoyable to listen to. I think the older models like the ones Dr Loesch recommended had a little something extra however. Especially driven by his amps and his designs that Joe has at Tempo Electric. I was up there last year and hung out with Joe and he was using some baffle less 3 sectional speakers that were very nice. Would have liked to have compared them side by side with some Alnico Tannoys though.

Haven't gotten around to posting my systems yet. Lotsa gear around here and a few different systems pieced together. A little of this and a little of that. Nothing too esoteric or expensive for that matter but all sounding good in their own individual ways. Not really in one camp or another. All my audio friends have different set ups than mine and each other. It's all good!

Quickly: Vandy 3A Sigs, Red Dragon M500 amps, ARC SP 16,Oppo 980H,Benchmark DAC1, SCE HRS Interface, Technics 1200 MKII,AT440 Cartridge, Kimber 12TC, Nordost,Lessloss, White Gold,Straightwire,Lifatec Cables, Acoustic Revive RTP 2, Acoustic Revive RR77.

Maggie 1.6,Vandy 2W Sub, Audibile Illusions Mod 3A, ARC 150.2 amp,ARC CD1,Sony SCD 555ES,PS Audio Digital Link Dac lll, Basis 1400 Rega RB 300, Benz Micro Gold Cartridge,Straightwire, Lessloss,Audioquest,Lifatec cables Shunyata Hydra 4,Symposium Roller Blocks.

Snell Elll,Quicksilver V4 Amps, Counterpoint SA 1000 pre, Onkyo Universal Player, Sony 775SACD,Micromega MyDac,Technics 1200 Limited Gold TT, AT120 cartridge,Straightwire, AQ,Lifatec cables.

More but too much to go into for now.

Why don't they get respect? Well, I'll flip the question: have you seen any other speaker that can go on for a long thread and not have any real haters out there, but many lovers?

Maybe by respect you mean in the current high end scene of North America and the magazines. I'll answer why there is not constant talk there:

1. No big advertising in high end journals.

2. Not some new company claiming to have reinvented physics, claiming to have a genius designer the likes of which audio has never seen.

3. Not claiming to have INVENTED something new.

4. No crazy made up physics stories, the market loves those science and physics defying stories more than real physics and science. The reviewers buy into the made up stuff and the consumers do. Fiction is much more fun than reality to the average layman.

5. Old company so no chance a reviewer can act as if he "discovered" them,and no consumer can feel like he is a pioneer among consumers that discovered the secret nobody else knows about.

6. The forced death of horn speakers in America by influential revisers in the 80's: you know the mantra, "horns don't image, horns are bright, horns quack, horns honk". We in this thread know that this is as ridiculous as saying "I have heard Thiels, they are too bright, so all cone speakers are bright". But nobody ever accused the public or the high end audiophiles in particular as being particularly logical or not being gullible.

The above certainly is not a conclusive list, but it's a start.

Dan, nice post, and nice sign off (Yours in the love of music and Tannoy). Yes, we are on the same page.

One thing about Tannoy guys: they are so often about the music. After all, they can't be about prestige as the gear is not raved in the mags. They can't be about conformance, as they are not the current hot thing (which means nothing about sound....in fact, how hot something is might be inversely proportional to how much like music it sounds!).

And sure a bunch of us have conversed, and a bunch of us forget that! You are not alone, with so many e-mails, forums, etc. these days who could remember all the contacts?You are not losing it!

Great Thread and discussion..Thanks for a lot of info.

I did have a chance to hear a Turnberry with and without Supertweeters, and felt they are a hit/miss. With some recordings they do add a lot more spatial cues but with some recording they can give an impression of going on the harsher side which is completely against the grain..hence can be a bit disorienting.

Regarding Rock- They definitely do Rock. since they naturally have a fleshed out sound very rich in harmonic content (And i believe the reason many folks feel they are colored)they do very well with both Tubes and SS. and while quality of power is important they do respond to quantity of power especially with regard to the bottom end .

I run my Tannoys with a Leben amp and frankly could not be happier..and i listen to almost every Genre except Heavy Metal and Rap..and i personally believe they are the most Tonally satisfying speakers i have heard