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After hearing Jim's (Hogg) Turnberry SEs at his place in August, I was so taken with the Tannoy sound that I purchased a pair of Cheviots from ebay. These speakers use the HPD315 12 inch driver in a smaller cabinet than Jim's speakers, which is fine since I'm in a much smaller room.So far I'm driving them with Monarchy SE-100 monoblocks, 100wpc solid state amps, with a tubed preamp (Audio Note). The speakers sound glorious, especially the midrange, where human voices just sound beautiful. Bass is definitely satisfactory with this combo. As expected from a concentric driver design, they image well, too. Are they a little rolled off on top? Maybe, but to my 54 year old ears it's hard to tell. Maybe sometime I'll try supertweeters with them, but I'm enjoying the speakers too much to care right now.I have a Scott 222C tubed integrated that I'm having some work done on; when that amp comes back I can't wait to hear the combination. I just hope the 22 watts per channel is enough to drive the Tannoys.To 15Golds - enjoy those Tannoys. You have a great set of speakers. I agree with Jim that for your musical preferences you should try solid state amps. There's a lot of used stuff to choose from on Audiogon; if you don't like what you hear you can always sell it on for no or little loss of money and try something else.Mike Fox
One thing you might want to do is have the drivers inspected by a competent speaker person with prior Tannoy experience. I've found with used Tannoy's the drivers are often out-of-spec and need to be re-coned. Jim
Quote from: mikef on 1 Oct 2008, 03:53 pmAfter hearing Jim's (Hogg) Turnberry SEs at his place in August, I was so taken with the Tannoy sound that I purchased a pair of Cheviots from ebay. These speakers use the HPD315 12 inch driver in a smaller cabinet than Jim's speakers, which is fine since I'm in a much smaller room.So far I'm driving them with Monarchy SE-100 monoblocks, 100wpc solid state amps, with a tubed preamp (Audio Note). The speakers sound glorious, especially the midrange, where human voices just sound beautiful. Bass is definitely satisfactory with this combo. As expected from a concentric driver design, they image well, too. Are they a little rolled off on top? Maybe, but to my 54 year old ears it's hard to tell. Maybe sometime I'll try supertweeters with them, but I'm enjoying the speakers too much to care right now.I have a Scott 222C tubed integrated that I'm having some work done on; when that amp comes back I can't wait to hear the combination. I just hope the 22 watts per channel is enough to drive the Tannoys.To 15Golds - enjoy those Tannoys. You have a great set of speakers. I agree with Jim that for your musical preferences you should try solid state amps. There's a lot of used stuff to choose from on Audiogon; if you don't like what you hear you can always sell it on for no or little loss of money and try something else.Mike FoxI know what you mean Mike,,,, Jim's Tannoy's when connected to his tube components were simply so glorious, the music forced me to close my eyes and block out my surroundings. But from that point, that 6 layer chocolate cake took over and I was out like a light. I would defintely take that 4+ hour drive again tho just to hear that system. Cheers,Robin
They were really awesome... if I had an extra wing in my mansion, theyd be here! The only thing I would give the Tannoys is a weightier cabinet. I heard resonances!!!!!! I did. But still the sound was something I really enjoyed. BEside I love the look of the TannoysMike