Maybe, the lower midrange was on the weak side, making music that should sound bold, sounding a bit slender. I could have kept these if it were not the fact that I had the impression that the bass missed a bit of integration. Most striking, however, was the the Dual Concentric arrangement, offering a fascinating accuracy in voices, strings, brass etcetera. The price was decent given the huge upgrade in soundstage. First I found a pair of 637's that are quite similar designs on a larger scale, 8" drivers instead of 6". I looked for speakers with a bit more bass than the 636'es could offer as their cabinets are closed and relatively small dimensioned.
As I knew that the rubber surrounds and the polypropylene cones of my Tannoys hadn't aged over the years (as far as I can judge), I was interested in Tannoys with this driver construction. This design from the 40’s is still used, admired and highly desired today.I had the idea to upgrade from my faithful floorstanding Tannoy 636's by looking for good second hand stereo speakers. With this system, the sound energy is propagated from the same point and delivered through the centre of the low frequency cone – a true point source.” “ Unlike ordinary drive units, the Dual Concentric™ is effectively two drivers properly merged into one, where the high-frequency unit is positioned on the back of the low frequency driver to ensure that they are on the same acoustic axis. The dual concentric speaker causes a natural time alignment of all audible frequencies that must be corrected by complicated networks and filters otherwise. Tannoy is well known for its Dual Concentric speaker design which places the tweeter behind the low frequency driver (co-axially) although Tannoy is not the only speaker manufacturer to design coaxial drivers (Altec and Kef being just two notable examples). “ Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler recently orchestrated an impromptu karaoke session over the Tannoy system of a Californian branch of the Home Depot hardware store, according to staff.” and is equivalent to the generic branding of Kleenex or Coke or Velcro that we in the US are more familiar with. This generic brand reference continues today. This lead to the phrase “Over the Tannoy” which means an announcement made over a PA system. Due to this, “Tannoy” became a generic term for all PA systems in the British Commonwealth. The Tannoy name is a composite of Tantalum-Lead Alloy which is the material that comprises a solid state rectifier invented by the company’s founder Guy Fountain.ĭuring World War II, Tannoy was commissioned to produce and distribute all the communication systems used by British military bases. Tannoy Ltd, an English manufacturer of loudspeakers and public-address (PA) systems, began in 1926 under the Tulsemere Manufacturing Company. By Cathy Satin on Octoin Blog, Speaker History
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