Those Tannoy fill the room without even playing anything. Big is right.
@remiandrepedersen868
5 жыл бұрын
It is not really correct, but then we are talking about speakers at a completely different price.
@politicalassassin7254
5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha that's a good one.
@BadMonkeyFinger_Audio
5 жыл бұрын
Not only does an old system like this do justice to older music, but it also excels with newer music, too.
@robmills537
4 жыл бұрын
The 70s is where real hifi started for me but not at that level , fantastic to see it reviewed must have been a pleasure to listen to.
@jimbasler1054
5 жыл бұрын
The 70's analog sound equipment is where it's at,as far as I'm concerned. A couple of years ago,I had my Pioneer sx-1250 recapped and completely gone through. Glad I did........ I wouldn't think of getting rid of it!!
@sabastiantaylor7209
4 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand why do we hear more about tannoy speakers in America. I’m a huge fan and every time I show one of my new audiophile friends what they can do. They are always in awe.
@nooopp
Жыл бұрын
I’m 23 and my exes dad had a stereo system and that changed my life I never realized how great music can sound through better equipment. Her and I are over now but I still miss jamming out and not being able to hear what each other is saying over the music haha
@mosespray4510
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, the condition of those components is amazing! They look brand new.
@draskogagula2073
6 ай бұрын
I am 39 years old and i heard this speaker and it is so jucy and big sweet sound,, It was driving by luxman l 550 and i want that sound i never heard before ,,, I want that i need that ❤😀✌️🙏
@TheRealShedLife
4 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I love how you talk about it, like someone describing a sublime coffee or wine.
@xenigron6237
5 жыл бұрын
70's will remain the YOUNG decade in every sense ..from Music to hi-fi to cars etc....Almost everything from that decade is timeless ...the 70's is not vintage is immortal.
@Jacksirrom
5 жыл бұрын
Nah that's a bias against the current youth. Every age comes and goes.
@xenigron6237
5 жыл бұрын
@@Jacksirrom Bullshit,there are time periods that don't let nothing relevant in any field,just take a look at the so called "modern classic" motorbikes ....they take inspirations form the 70's bikes...take Bruno Mars that take inspiration from the disco-funk of the 70's...take Greta Van Fleet that take inspiration from the 70's rock and I could go on and on....The 70's will be here forever (and also the 60's and the 80's very probably) . The rest is temporary fashions. Would you compare a shitty Prius with a Mustang or a Camaro ?,the former is ugly like shit the latter are attractive even for a 12 yo kid.
@carlosoliveira-rc2xt
5 жыл бұрын
Seriously? Get out your large collars, leisure suits, plaid sofas and green and orange toilets. Tasteful!
@carlosoliveira-rc2xt
5 жыл бұрын
@@xenigron6237 '74 to '78 Mustang was a real gem. SMH
@aprisia
5 жыл бұрын
xenig ron Please, put any Mustang or Camaro up against a modern WRX with the same amount of after market work. It will crush those silly outdated cars on any road surface.
@italia458driver7
5 жыл бұрын
I have always loved acoustic research vintage stuff. And Tannoys. Say no more. Beautiful setup.
@swinde
3 жыл бұрын
This is Audio Research who made high end Tube Amplifiers in the 70s. Acoustic Research was a very good speaker manufacturer of the 60s through the 80s. I still use the AR-3a speakers in my system.
@tenettttt
5 жыл бұрын
My whole setup (excluding digital parts) is from the 70's. Wonderful era for audio equipment IMO.
@alfaman4113
Жыл бұрын
I have a vintage late 70 s early 80s silver faced pioneer system with turntable, amp, equaliser tape deck and tuner and people who come over say it sounds like a live band is playing in the room. The amp is 50 amp output with 80 amp large speakers. Never change it for anything. Todays sound systems are Bluetooth speakers playing from an iPhone
@TheMirolab
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah Steve!!! Preaching FUN in Audio! That is what's missing from so many modern speakers. And so happy you finally included Tannoy in your quest for the holy horn.
@ericnortan9012
4 жыл бұрын
I bought Cerwin-Vega! SL 15's for the fun, and man o man. They may not be what most of you guys are looking for but if you want some fun speakers, that sound surprisingly good, for many types of music, these get it done. They may not be the best CV! but sound a lot better than many I've heard. They aren't big PA style giants, but they are pretty impressive to the eye, 3'x18"x18" all black with big red lips. They normally give me an excuse to fire up the system when guests come over. They wanna hear em'. You put that 70's hard rock stuff on, or metal, bass heavy dance/techno, talk about room filling feel the music good times. Big box 3-ways, everyone should own a pair.
@neilfox4626
5 жыл бұрын
Tannoy Legacy Arden available new today for $8,000/pr. The originals were used at Abbey Road studios to mix Dark Side of the Moon.
@adrianwu6761
5 жыл бұрын
For smaller rooms, the Tannoy SRM10B or SGM10B are great. Even better with Doug Sax’s crossover, which is still available from Manley Labs.
@darrenchampion4451
5 жыл бұрын
Floyds masterpiece was actually was mixed on Tannoy Golds but excellent non the less
@kamilkashaf2766
4 жыл бұрын
Now I know why the mix wasn't good.
@iggypopisgod9
3 жыл бұрын
@@kamilkashaf2766 oh please child
@kamilkashaf2766
3 жыл бұрын
@@iggypopisgod9 Being younger obviously means my hearing is better than yours, for one. But so is my playback system likely, if you can't hear how recessed the treble is on most DSOTM mixes. Your system is probably colored enough in the treble region that it's overcompensating for it (and for your lack of hearing) in the highs.
@moonphaser3304
5 жыл бұрын
Tannoy still holding up 40 years later
@cosmonaut9942
5 жыл бұрын
Tannoy started in 1927. 92 years.
@messagedeleted1922
4 жыл бұрын
My grandad had an old set of 80s klipsch speakers and the sound staging. Literally room filling and 3 dimensional big sound.
@vicverdi9402
5 жыл бұрын
The more things change ... the more they stay the same. Nothings really changed all that much in 60 years. What you've been reminded of and remember about listening to audio when you got started is missing from todays gear so now .. you've gone 360 and back to where you started. FUN is the operative word!
@brianruhl7761
5 жыл бұрын
I like how you stated what I have come to believe too
@musiconlyplease98
5 жыл бұрын
Music was an experience in those days
@ericelliott227
5 жыл бұрын
You know the old saying, "old is gold". The vintage gear is the foundation and cornerstone of high end gear today. I'm not just talking about vintage high end like in the video, but "mid-fi" as well. Much of "mid-fi" vintage gear (which from a sound quality perspective I would hardly call "mid-fi" as it is much closer to "high end or Hi-Fi") will give many pieces of high gear today a run for the money. For instance: I have a Sansui 8080 db that I had re-capped and such that will go up against any amp 10 times what I paid, which was $180. In fact, I did put it up against a $10k high end amp (I forget the brand) and the rep turned and told me: "You don't even even need to look at our amps, I'd keep that Sansui!" Another guy said that to replace the Sansui with an amp that would sound close to it or match it would require you to pay at least $10k in today's money. I don't know about vintage speakers (I've had plenty and some can sound fairly nice, but never quite there). I paired my Sansui with a set of Paradigm Monitor 6000f, ($1k speakers, Chinese, nothing special) and the staging is like nothing I have ever heard at any show. The image is so 3D that it is as if you can walk around in it. There is also surprising refinement in the combo I have. This system blew away my reference system hands down until recently when I upgraded it's amp to something of similar build as my Sansui. Also those old "receivers" were hand built in Japan with meticulous QC and it shows. They last forever, 30 to 40 years down, a $250 recap and your good for another 20 to 25 years! It is not just cost effective factor, but sound quality as well! So yeah, vintage high end, mid-fi all fantastic and will challenge today's gear. Like I said, it is the foundation upon which today's gear is built (provided the designers and builders are aware of the fact).
@SamuelBarrPhotography
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve, hey we want to hear this system!
@jonmustang
3 жыл бұрын
So nice to hear a review acknowledging the ability of some equipment to bring out the emotion of recorded music; that's definitely what I go for when I'm choosing equipment.
@jwbrook
4 жыл бұрын
Love hearing your enthusiasm. The felt experience of listening to music is what this hobby is all about and I very much appreciate your approach. Thanks Steve. Keep up the good work!
@scottlowell493
5 жыл бұрын
Mid 70's Kef, late 70's ADS were incredibly accurate and full range.
@alexkenney5962
4 жыл бұрын
Scott Lowell I am glad someone mentioned ADS as being right up there in the pantheon. I finally got a pair of L710s and after replacing the woofers again find myself luxuriA
@brunoprimas1483
5 жыл бұрын
Excellence has no timeframe. If it's good, it's good.
@harryme472
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly right.
@Vintaronica
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the late 80's early 90's my best friend's father was a Technics repair engineer, he had probbably the best combination for these Tannoy Ardens. His system was a Technics sea3-mk2, paired to a an SU-A4 dc preamp, those tannoy ardens would turn the whole end of my road into virtually a live concert performance. They used to play a lot of iron maiden, guns and roses..and the sound WAS INCREDIBLE, it made such an impact on my young person it made me really love hi fi. I remember he had a db meter it was peaking 125db...🤣👌👌 Fast forward 30 years, and I still dream of owning that very same setup. I'm getting there though, currently got some kef 104/2 Raymond Cook, paired up to a very nice recently refurbished su v505 and man...it sounds AWESOME...and yes.. iron maiden gets played in my house when the neighbours are out...🤣👌
@lastoftheboomers9600
5 жыл бұрын
Tannoy Ardens were my first audiophile level component. I didn't know how great they were back then.
@cosmonaut9942
5 жыл бұрын
Finally, a Tannoy review. You know, Steve, that Tannoy reissued the Arden, Cheviot and Eaton. Some of the drawbacks of the '70s Tannoys are history. The highs are smooth. People call it the velvet hammer. I just bought the new Tannoy Cheviot and it's everything and more from what I remember of the 70s Tannoy.
@harryme472
3 жыл бұрын
One of the great speaker brands.
@tonydeniro284
2 жыл бұрын
I picked up the newTannoy Legacy Eatons over year ago, wow! No going back from these. They are huge stand mounters....
@christophernoto
5 жыл бұрын
Ah! I'm reminded of an all night party I attended at a college buddy's parents' home, probably in 1969 or 1970, on the south side of Chicago. This fellow's dad was a commodities trader, and had an amazing McIntosh system, all tube, and still one of the top ten audio experiences of my life. Yeah, life was good back there in the Twentieth Century. 😎
@WayneMickel
3 жыл бұрын
Tannoys are excellent really good pre-amp and Amplifier too
@benjaminsturgeon2147
5 жыл бұрын
Fernando IS REALLY GREAT,!! I only had one dealing w him but he went above and beyond with advice, help, and problem solving my system!! Rare these days! SkiFi audio has great customer service
@Michael-xz1nk
5 жыл бұрын
Very cool to see such a rare kit. Steve, I love when you go on location and show us other people's systems. Keep up the great work!!
@ArcadeDude44
5 жыл бұрын
Man, I wish I was there to experience this amazing system!👍
@357Shakey
5 жыл бұрын
My parents sprang for a Marantz 2252B and a nice set of RTR’s for me in 78. The speakers let go in the 90’s but I still have the Marantz. Classic!
@prockrog5219
5 жыл бұрын
The 70s is when everything musical peaked. That was one cool stereo!
@kencohagen4967
5 жыл бұрын
I never saw those speakers. I've seen the rest. But thanks for sharing. Good stuff. Music was so important back then. You don't get that today, not without hunting things down anyway!
@m.9243
5 жыл бұрын
This would have been a top notch system in its day. All of these components weren't quite cheap then. So it re enforces my belief that well made equipment will always sound good, no matter what new materials and technologies come into play. ..and what are these super modern shiny black towers doing next to the Tannoys? Are they Rockports? They look superb but I bet, they might have a hard time matching the 'fun' effect the old system creates. Well done Steve to remind us older generation and inform the younger ones of what was it like in the 70's!
@nhennessy6434
5 жыл бұрын
Either Rockports or Avalons.
@buttonman1831
5 жыл бұрын
Stuff was just built so different back then. The only high end amp I owned from that period was a Marantz 2325 and it made even my small speakers sound big, really incredible.
@rcfanaticdublin
4 жыл бұрын
Hello Sir, I am a 53 year old Irish man...my first hifi after I flew the nest back in 1986 was a 1970's Rotel compoment system. I had it for aroud 3 year's until it got stolen...I loved the hell out of the solid built 3way speaker's rated at 30watt /8ohlm. The SLP 1200 turntable had an ADC cartridge and it used to sound amazing with a decently produced vinyl one of my favorites at the time was Michel Jare.
@dbcooper4666
Жыл бұрын
I’m running some new amps through a set of vintage Arden’s and Edinburgs. Sound is top shelf
@pookiedacat8364
4 жыл бұрын
Steve, this one is truly outrageous. I love it.
@MountainAdventures1
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up with a pair of Epicure 20's in the living room, and that became my early standard for comparison. Considering that this was before the time of the Linkwitz-Riley crossover, the sound was amazing. My Dad has had them repaired a few times over the years and still uses them.
@briancampbell7712
Ай бұрын
...I'm using a pair of Spendor S100 now but going to be trying the Tannoy Berkleys soon..
@j.t.cooper2963
Жыл бұрын
My venture down the HiFi Hi-way started back in 1977 when I was 13 with my older brothers Sansui 9090DB and a pair of Technics SB7000A speakers.
@AmandaBuckley-lj4in
11 ай бұрын
My childhood memories growing listening to music Was a pleasure… Not just those speakers but all the speakers that were in my time yr 76 growing up into the 80s 90s What a big difference from back in the day to now… Yea those are power house speakers…. Thank you ❤❤❤
@koylesmasterpeice
5 жыл бұрын
I tend to stick with vintage gear. I find as an audiophile I get my best bang for buck. All of my gear has been completely rebuilt. I go to audio shows and I have to say that it is hard to find a system that can compete with my gear from the 70's. Great video. Karl
@rosssmith173
5 жыл бұрын
I agree! Sold my Classe' amp and Audio note pre-amp and replaced it with a reconditioned Sansui 9090. Man, talk about full rich sound. And I get to control the tone!
@carlosoliveira-rc2xt
5 жыл бұрын
What planet are you from? Speakers from the '70s were garbage, especially the tweeters. Materials for drivers and crossover parts have improved immensely. Nevermind, the top gear from the late seventies commands crazy prices in today's market. I owned expensive gear from the '70s and can appreciate the aesthetics but the sound quality is not on par with today's best gear.
@meghanjay8994
5 жыл бұрын
@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt "Not on par" is not equal to "garbage." Tannoys that have been reconditioned to original spec are still excellent speakers, even if they don't beat modern mega-buck speakers. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find modern speakers that sound as good as Ardens for the price Ardens usually fetch, which is around $2000US.
@69eddieD
5 жыл бұрын
You can refurbish and even upgrade vintage gear without compromising its its vintage character. I've done it. As long as you don't mind parts that are not obviously original on the circuit board, you'll like it. The state of the art equipment today is by far the best ever made. But you sure will pay for it. In the 70s a working guy could get something decent.Not so much any more. Consumer grade audio equipment has gotten worse over the decades and is virtually disposable today. You can get replacement drivers (especially woofers) for popular vintage speakers for $50-100 now. You can put better tweeters in there too if you know what you're doing. I'm rocking vintage Nakamichi with home built speakers (not like vintage speakers but big) in my garage. I had to repair all the Nakamichi stuff (a learning experience compared to more pedestrian stuff) but it was worth it.
@gideonkloosterman
4 жыл бұрын
@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt I own a pair of Cabasse brick M8's and I must say, detail wise they're on about same level as my dad's Paradigm Prestige 75F's!
@davidtimbro3677
5 жыл бұрын
Love the title Steve. My 1st reaction was I doubt it, without even seeing what the setup was lol. That’s some great vintage tube gear. I took a quick trip over to Skyfiaudio’s web page, man that’s some nice vintage stuff they have. Those speakers remind me of the Klipsch Cornwall ll speakers I owned in the the mid 80’s with a Music reference RM-9 amp and NYAL Minuet pre. Yes that system from the 70’s may sound as good as my current but those speakers would never fit in my current room. I would love to rock that AR stuff for a while. Good job.
@jozefserf2024
5 ай бұрын
3:48 says it all. No progress in emotional terms. As for the slightly coarse treble, well, some form of isolation can certainly help with that.
@bjornahh87
5 жыл бұрын
Really cool power amp you have there, love those types that shows the power out level and watch the volumes comming out of the amp..
@scottohta2192
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if I have heard the Tannoy Arden, but I have always been impressed by Tannoy's horn loaded speakers even though they are large, but the Gerrard 401, that is indeed a special turntable.
@henrym78
5 жыл бұрын
The piper at the gates of dawn. Would love to hear Syd Barrett through that set!
@donohocl
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, an important variable, the effect of nostalgia!
@FungedeBagre
5 жыл бұрын
Love to see your passion.
@akmt123
5 жыл бұрын
My Pioneer SX535 from 1975...is still running fine!!!!!
@machninety7334
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in the 80’s. My moms speakers, from the 70’s, a set of Bose, sound so much better than any speaker I can currently find. Even compared to Sonos. The Apple HomePod is the closest thing I’ve found, but still, no one understands until they hear them. I took it apart and there were so many weird components in there and I can’t find what they are when I tried researching them. Why did they stop making good speakers?
@asphaltandtacos
Жыл бұрын
I am shopping for vintage audio equipment from the 70s era. Technics is on my list of gear to buy.
@johnnytoobad7785
5 жыл бұрын
I still have my Thornes 125 MkII with the SME Tonearm and a SONY TA2000F pre-amp (recapped and updated by me..). Nothing like 70's gear. Total Quality.
@salvadorrodenas3071
5 жыл бұрын
Quality is and always will be perennial
@brooklynbummer
5 жыл бұрын
Over the many years, I found those big speakers in big cabinets sounded more dynamic. Not always perfect across the sound spectrum but sure produced an exciting sound.
@ericnortan9012
4 жыл бұрын
big box 3-ways may not have the perfect sound, just the best sound
@paulz250
5 жыл бұрын
Great looking Vintage stereo, I'd love to have that at home 👍👍👍
@belovedconsole
5 жыл бұрын
This was so fun to listen to. Sometimes I come to your channel for comfort after watching some disturbing documentary or something. I'm like, "I'ma go over to Uncle Steve's house" and hear him talk about speakers and get to see the speakers and all the kit. Good times man, your channel is comfort media!
@B2video
5 жыл бұрын
My 93 year old grandfather has these on in his system. They sound powerful and easy at the same time
@genehart261
3 жыл бұрын
Audio Research will factory rehab everything that they ever built. What a great forever system.
@69Muscle
5 жыл бұрын
Those Tannoy's are awesome!! My newly purchased vintage ADS L700's have blown my mind. Love vintage gear.
@johnhpalmer6098
5 жыл бұрын
Ah the 2 way versions of the L710's, which are 3 way. I have the 3 way L810's myself and they are fantastic.
@Plastpackad
4 жыл бұрын
Just rediscoverd my 35 years old luxman amp and technics cd player. My god, they deliver music instead of perfect sound. Flesh and blood. I love it.
@vintagehifilover
5 жыл бұрын
"...Scale, Power, Dynamics..." yeah you've hit the nail on the head Steve! Gotta love those big Tannoy speakers. Cheers VHFL
@stevebirmingham9650
5 жыл бұрын
I worked in Audio retail in the UK 1975-1978 the Tannoy Arden speakers were just mind bending i sold many pairs of these speakers the sound was just awesome , once you have heard these nothing else seems to give the performance, ok they wont suit everyone but my god if you ever get the chance to listen you will probably buy them rock on Tannoy worth every $$$$$$$$
@adam872
4 жыл бұрын
I've used dual-concentric Tannoy monitors in a recording studio and they sound fantastic. A mate also has a pair and their low end is fantastic.
@rolf_siggaard
4 жыл бұрын
That D150 is legendary. Very envious. Great feature Steve. Very entertaining.
@clintonojones3030
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a music producer so I love speakers and good quality sound when making beats I bet they sound like the earth when the ground hits and vibrates my my body so good that I get chills like it's cold in the room, NOW THATS GOOD SOUND
@brianruhl7761
5 жыл бұрын
Stereo is a mature technology that has improved at the margins and has become more economical especially budget gear. The top end stuff from 50 years ago is still top end stuff
@conchobar
5 жыл бұрын
Only in build quality.
@brianruhl7761
5 жыл бұрын
@@conchobar maybe explain the technical and engineering leaps that have occurred to make this a valid observation. Ill give you the sub woofer which has been a major development
@scottlowell493
5 жыл бұрын
@@brianruhl7761 Subs and drivers are better now, granted. But 70's Kef 105 and 107 along with ADS from the late 70's are still incredibly accurate and full range. They are STILL high end. There is better stuff now, but they are DAMN close. There are vanity brands now that are pretty mid-fi (port noise, tweeters etc) compared to the Kef and ADS. Kef can be modernized with cap upgrades, but the drivers KEF and ADS made in house are not as rigid as modern drivers, and cannot quite reach the same G forces.
@bruhl001
5 жыл бұрын
@@scottlowell493 My above post is consistent with what you are saying.
@bruhl001
5 жыл бұрын
Not sure how I have two monikers; Brian Ruhl & Stereo001 Ruhl = same person
@southridgeapartments62
5 жыл бұрын
I had a pair of these back in '82 and Steve's review is no exaggeration. They had a lot of punch and clean sound.
@johnnytacokleinschmidt515
5 жыл бұрын
Back in college in Rochester, NY a roommate had a pair of these speakers. The tinsel wire had broken away on the low frequency driver and was too short to reuse. I replaced it with what I had... A small piece of desoldering braid that I heated and cleaned the flux out of and soldered in. I knew they were somewhat exotic. I think they were mostly just his favorite big old speakers. They sounded really good and I liked them allot.
@peacetrain3320
Жыл бұрын
Throwback rules! Atta boy, Steve!
@TheRockerxx69
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing beautiful. Classic. Wonderful components
@53pittmanjt
5 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that Garrard made tables other than those like the one in my grandparents' living room stereo console. It was a stack-em-up record changer of course, with a tonearm that looked like a tire iron with an anchor on each end but hey - it played the tunes they wanted to hear and was concealed inside a cabinet that matched the other furniture. Thanks for showing us this period piece.
@finscreenname
3 жыл бұрын
I had a friend's dad that remodeled a radio station back in the late 1970's. In the process they redid the DJ booth taking out the old turntables that just sat in a countertop (no box around them) taking them home to sell at the flee market. I was there helping to load the truck for the flee market (so my friend would be free to hang out) and noticed the turntable. It went home with me and I built a box for it. Looked terrible but it was the best turntable I think I ever had. I looked up Garrard a couple years ago and was shocked that most everything they made was cheap kid record players and then some really high end stuff. Tale of two worlds I guess.
@raywhitehead730
3 жыл бұрын
It's July 2021, still one of the Best sound systems I ever heard was a Marantz system from the early 70s...
@jeremytravis360
5 жыл бұрын
I went round to a customers extremely large 7 story mason house in a fashionable part of Kensington in London. When I say large his living room was probably 45ft square. In the corner of the room had a single Tannoy speaker, housed in a hand built Guy Roy Fountain enclosure. He had the most astonishing record collection I have ever seen. The gentleman played in one of the famous orchestras in London. This huge speaker could fill the room with about 5 watts of amplification. He asked me if he should buy a more modern amplifier and I thought probably not.
@legrandmaitre7112
4 жыл бұрын
I heard systems like this in the 70s and 80s. Eventually my last big 70s speakers died - I think I've been struggling ever since to get that basic BIG natural sound back again.
@Aidenpop8
4 жыл бұрын
You can rebuild or even build your own. I have a pair of Klipsch LaScala's on my back patio. If I want to pump anything over 80 watts into them, I have to graciously ask every one of my surrounding neighbors to come on over. Standing in the middle of my 1/4 acre back yard feels no different than standing in the middle of the Troubadour when the sound waves hit you at 150 watts per channel or more. Head-banging is involuntary.
@mkshffr4936
3 жыл бұрын
I bet those Tannoys would sound amazing with some nice fire bottles driving them.
@lizichell2
3 жыл бұрын
Look at these vintage beautiful speakers
@The_Jimrod
3 жыл бұрын
In my experience there's a direct correlation between sensitivity and presentation with well designed speakers - high sensitivity gets you scale, dynamics, a more real and live sound - the price being a slightly raw character and lack of refinement. Low sensitivity trades that for tonal accuracy and smoothness at a cost of real dynamics. Most modern designs hover around 87-89dB and straddle a safe middle ground. It's all a balancing act of compromises really.
@robertbailey8003
3 жыл бұрын
I was a DJ in the '70s. The club had 4 of these speakers, 1 in each corner at about 12ft high. With 2 401's with IIRC SME arm's.
@rca6576
Жыл бұрын
Take all of my money for this right now!!
@darrens7040
5 жыл бұрын
got love that old school gear great video Steve thanks for sharing. Man cat people was a brilliant sound track "putting out the fire with gasoline" love it.
@MrRocktuga
5 жыл бұрын
I would say that those speakers were built with very few constrains. They’re big (or should I say huge) and certainly very expensive when they were new. IMHO, even today they’re not what most people would call affordable at $3500. 😉 With such a big box, there’s no reason why bass extension or sensitivity would have to be compromised, and with the original price tag there was probably no reason why the quality of the driver and crossover would be less than state-of-the-art. The WAF (which today isn’t only really about the wife) created big compromises on loudspeaker design, but we still need to put things into perspective with price, because that wasn’t an average loudspeaker on any age. But I’m confident that even young people today would be amazed by the scale of music and the ability to fill big rooms, and I also have my doubts that most high-end loudspeakers today can sound more (or as) musical, probably because (IMHO) they tend to aim too much for “resolution” and not so much for excitement.
@rowgli
3 жыл бұрын
I love that vintage gear has a lab equipment aesthetic, and actually required a level of competence on the part of the user to get good results. This is not an ageist comment, but can you imagine a teenager of today wrestling with a premium cassette recorder? What tape type should I use, what noise reduction? How should I set the recording level? Consumer audio is a different world nowadays :)
@nvc.
5 жыл бұрын
Tannoy is amazing
@timschutte6924
Жыл бұрын
Your correct about the speaker issue. Klipsch and JBL are about the only speakers that would come close to the performance that you have in front of you as far as modern speaker design, sensitivity and driver/crossovers. Some of the older Altec Lansing speakers are decent. It really depends on the amount of money a person has to spend. Kinda like performance cars, the faster you go, the more money you spend. I would be happy with a decent record player, Pioneer pre amp and amp. And a pair of vintage JBLs. That's bliss to me. Maybe an tube amp. Yamaha still makes very very good quality amps but my God they are expensive. I have a Yamaha reciever with a 100 wpc amp. But it's not component, it's one unit. Performance and sound quality usually sound better with separate components.
@v8trauma
5 жыл бұрын
I've a couple of hifi yearbooks from this era. Fascinating reading. I really ought to sell them, I've had them since about 1980. Was overjoyed to find my first turntable listed in them.
@kirkbarlow4909
5 жыл бұрын
Now you are getting it,vintage is awesome. Love audio research and Luxman.on the cheap. It's all good.
@SamuelBarrPhotography
5 жыл бұрын
Steve, we have to hear this system. Please play something through it for us!
@arichison
4 жыл бұрын
Always wanted an audio research amplifier. Wow, these are old but so awesome!
@chuckmaddison2924
4 жыл бұрын
Tannoy, what can I say it's the speaker that became the generic household name for a PA system used by everybody and their dog. Like how Hoover became everybody's word for putting the vacuum over the floor. It made a dramatic impact for a very good reason. It's the best. The Garrard another great.
@denshi-oji494
5 жыл бұрын
Tannoy speakers were always amazing!
@neilhamill318
2 жыл бұрын
Nothing sounds better than live music
@crannaford
4 жыл бұрын
I had a pair of Tannoy Ardens (Arden refers to the cabinet) for over 30 years. I bought them when I was 18yo (1975) and I sold them when the diaphragms started to perish. I miss them to this day!!! I paired them with a Yamaha CA-810 Natural Sound Amp which I sold only a few months ago and a Beogram turntable (that I still have) and a Nakamichi cassette deck. I remember the day I first heard them and the first thing I heard on them... it was Dark Side of the Moon.
@bozersgal
2 жыл бұрын
I did the opposite..I bought my "forever speakers" when I was 25. Summer of '77 I was teaching in Germany; hub was in Army and we were stationed down in Nurnberg in Bavaria. We had a decent Sound Club on base but it catered more to the 18-yr-old who just wanted more wattage and LOUD. It was easy to buy and sell with over 100,000 GIs on 5 bases in the area, so we'd buy, play and move on....went thru several reel-to-reels, cassettes, Bose speakers, anything with pretty meters, etc I traveled around to other bases always thinking they might have something different. And finally....I found my personal Nirvana. In Frankfurt we have an AF base with a major hospital, where they brought our boys as they were heading home from 'Nam. Rhein-Main AFB, we heard, has a GREAT Stereo Club.So up we went one Saturday, and fortunately, we got there as they were opening at 9. It was an entire building...about 200+ ft long and two stories high. Downstairs were the electronics, in succeeding rooms like Sunday school classrooms, with the low end at one end and prices going up as you went down the hall to the heavens at the end. The entire second floor was speakers, from sea to shining sea. In each acoustically prepared room were about 10 to 20 pairs of speakers looked up for listening...and they let me bring my own music. I brought from stateside some nice Dynaco bookshelf speakers, but it was time to move up. We had a full Dynaco setup..tuner, preamp, and both solid state and tube amps. The specs were excellent and deserved a good speaker. Forget food, forget drink. We listened, and moved up the hall. We listened more, and kept moving up. That day, being able to actually HEAR the difference between lesser and greater speakers was an entire education compressed into one very long day. The last room took my breath away...horns, Infinity tall towers that almost reached the ceiling, and 4 different sizes of the Tannoys...from largish bookcase up to the mammouth Ardens you saw in this video (slightly taller than horns, but not as deep.) We listened and we listened. They had two black leather Danish shairs at an appropriate distance and because of the accoustics they'd close the door and we could turn them up as loud as we wanted....over and over. Finally, as the afternoon was waning, I turned to my hub and asked him what he was thinking. He, I could tell, was excited, and I thought he was on my wavelength..but then he walks over to the smalled Tannoy and says, "yes, I think this would serve us fine"...and I must have looked incredulous, because he stopped and said "Wha??" I told him, No Way I would leave those Ardens behind. He went over and measured and looked at them and came back saying are you sure they'll even go into the apt....I told him we'll MAKE them go, even if we had to bring them over the 6th floor balcony. Then we realized they were getting ready to close at 5, so we hustled and bought them, hauled them (SO HUGE in foamed boxes!) out to our mid-sized Volkswagon 300 Hatchback. I was so exhausted I rustled out a drink and was relaxing when he started to wail. "They wont fit". What do you mean they wont fit?? "We'll need to rent a truck." We look around .....within ten minutes not one car was left in the lot that Saturday evening..nary a one! STUCK! We tried this way, and that way, of course folding the seats down and ramming the front seats into the dash. Finally I said "off with the boxes!!!" "Oh no!", says he, the keeper of all boxes since creation began." "Off! Gotta get outta here before dark." It took us two hours, but we finally found a way to get those mammouth walnut cabinets into that poor old VW, but it meant me literally riding with my cheek rammed sideways on the front windshield...and this, I assure you, is no exaggeration. For four hours and fifteen minutes, rolling down German autobahns with Ferrari's and Mercede's galore passing us at 130 mph and almost blowing us off the highway, (and my hub wont drive faster lest he scratch his love-of-his-life Ardens), we slowly made our way back down to Bavaria....and I might add we never ate a bite all day...I truly was not sure I would live to get back to my abode. Then we got there and had to rustle them into our (THANK YOU JESUS) elevator one by one....then walk them into our apartment....before falling on the bed and passing out. The next morning I wandered into the living room..big by most standards....about 18 x 26...to see these two HUGE boxes standing in the middle of the floor..looking two times larger than they had in the Sound Center. The cost in 1977??? The Tannoy Ardens were $336 each...a fortune to a young couple on GI pay..thank God I was teaching on base, but it was a stretch back then. But I adored them and appreciated them for thirty years. We moved them back Stateside after 5 years and moved them 4 times in the US. In some houses they were a royal pain to fit in, in our final they were still a bit overly large..hell, they were HUGE. But I put up with them, decorated around them, even moved them the last ten years up into my formal living room. For a while I used them as my fronts in my home theater, with huge SVS subs pounding them. I re-foamed them by hand in 2001 when my kid played them so loud the foam was falling in shreds. But alas, I lost them in a marital dispute. We agreed to share custody and exchange them every five years. All went well until the ten year mark and he went piggy and now wont let me have them back. Sometimes great sacriices have to be realized in order to keep peace of mind. But I will never forget my 17" dual-concentric Tannoy loves...to this day I can close my eyes and hear them. And who knows, one day, if I see the right pair, I may break bad and get some more...but maybe in the next smaller size next time! If I knew how to load a pic here I'd show you my babies. This romance novel is over. Thank you for listening to my tale of woe. Susan in VA
@tracydavis8002
29 күн бұрын
Susan in VA, saw your post on Audigon also and thought it had to be the same person. Absolutely love the tale of stuffing these into a Volkswagen in Frankfurt. I too had a VW while stationed on an AF base in the UK in the 80’s, and visiting stereo shops on the military bases. I too was bitten by the Tannoy bug, but much more recently. Found a pair of Ardens on Audio Mart and made a 9hr dash from Indpls to Ontario,Canada in a rented mini van to bring them home. They are out there! I am now the second owner. The previous owner bought them in Kitchener, Ontario in 1978. Got them home, hooked them up and “Wow!” I get it! The coaxial point source imaging and room filling sound. One of the speakers doesn’t have the highest frequencies. The tweeter might be out, and the roll off/energy attenuators don’t seem to work, even with Deoxit. At some point I will have to find someone I can ship the drivers to. Maybe the crossovers also. In the meantime, these are my forever speakers.
@mikecampbell5856
4 жыл бұрын
My son has a Luxman from 1974 and four JBL S99 Lancers from 1970. It sounds great and you can rumble the house right of it's foundation.
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