Tannoy Speakers | Audio Reference Co. REVIEW SUMMARY: The Tao of Tannoy: The Westminster Royal Special Edition Loudspeakers"Which one of the three do I prefer when they are optimized in a way that brings out the best of their performance? I prefer the Westminster Royal SE by far. As listener after listener that has visited my listening room have said, the Westminsters are really something special, and are a couple of levels above either the Avantgarde or Harbeth in performance (or as my friend Chad puts it, the Westminsters are in a totally different league). But they should be considering the price differential: the Harbeth is around $1. K, the Avantgarde Duo is double that, and the Westminster is triple that. In the case of the Westminster Royal SE, you really do get what you pay for though, and using the Stereophile rating system that places the Avantgarde and Harbeths in Class A, the Westminsters are simply off the rating scale above Class A somewhere up there around the North Star". EXTENDED REVIEW: Do you know what the oldest loudspeaker company in the world is? If you guessed Tannoy you're exactly right, as Tannoy was founded by Guy R. Fountain in 1. 92. Clan Of Xymox Visible DvdToggle navigation كلمات اغاني لحنك. الرئيسية; اغاني مصرية; اغاني سعودية. Tannoy' was trademarked as a name in 1. London until 1. 97. Coatbridge, Scotland, where it still resides. There is such a rich history associated with Tannoy that it's impossible to do it justice in a web- length article, so I won't even try. Rather, I'll focus on the Westminster Royal Special Edition loudspeaker that is the object of this article, and I'll direct you to an excellent book that covers Tannoy's rich and interesting history with the detailed treatment it deserves: The Tannoy Story by Julian Alderton, Edward Gaskell Publishers, 2. ISBN 1- 8. 98. 54. I bought my copy of Alderton's The Tannoy Story at Amazon. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves history and Tannoy loudspeakers. If there is anything that is symbolic of Tannoy it is certainly the Dual Concentric™ speaker unit, which I think is one of the most important advancements in speaker technology ever developed in the history of audio (Westminster Dual Concentric™ shown below). Ronald Rackham developed the Dual Concentric™ speaker in 1. Monitor Black, which brilliantly integrated a high- frequency compression horn driver unit into the same axis as a fifteen- inch direct radiating low frequency driver on one chassis. Rackham also designed the Guy R. Fountain (GRF) and Autograph corner horn enclosures for the Dual Concentric™ speakers, which also quickly attained status in the music industry as high- performance designs. If Nobel Prizes were awarded for achievements in audio electronics, then Ronald Rackham would certainly be deserving of one for his contribution of the Dual Concentric™ speaker design—it is a positively brilliant musical device that has been highly revered by generations of music lovers. The Tannoy series of Dual Concentric™ speakers and enclosures have impressed many music industry luminaries over the years, like Arthur Haddy, the chief recording engineer at Decca, who heard the Monitor Silver (successor to the Monitor Black) in 1. Religious music. Sacred music has a long tradition in the state of Texas. The East Texas Musical Convention was organized in 1855, and is the oldest Sacred Harp. Artisti/Bändi-Cetjussa jo olevat nimet TARKISTETAAN tästä koosteesta + parasta aikaa auki olevasta säikeestä. Artisti/Bändi-Cetjua JATKETAAN viimeksi avatussa. A list of the various night clubs that were around during the 80s that are worth mentioning. Информация о зарубежных исполнителях рок-музыки, состав, дискография, фото, музыка в Real Audio. New Zealand supplier of mid to high end HiFi audio & stereo equipment - amplifiers, speakers, turntables, CD & DVD players, home theatre and cables. Buy online or. Decca studios in London. Dr. Dutton of EMI visited Tannoy in 1. Monitor Silvers installed in the GRF enclosures, and was so impressed he ordered the combination for EMI's Abbey Road recording studios. Kingsway Hall, the BBC, and many others, followed their example and ordered Tannoy Dual Concentrics™ for their recording studio work. Tannoy's became so prolific in the music industry that there's a very good chance that those beloved recordings you've treasured all your life were originally mastered using Tannoy Dual Concentrics™, and I suspect they will still be at their most authentic best when played back over Tannoys today. The Westminster Royal Special Edition Loudspeaker. Today's top of the line Tannoy Dual Concentric™ is the Westminster Royal Special Edition. You might think that Tannoy's naming of its premiere loudspeaker as the Westminster Royal is a bit pretentious, and that they are perhaps guilty of putting on airs, but actually the naming of the Westminster Royal is rooted deep in Tannoy's rich history and commemorates the installation of Tannoys in what was once the primary residence of the Kings of England, the Palace of Westminster. That original Tannoy installation in the Palace of Westminster, now serving as the home of Parliament, was tuned by none other than Ronald Rackham, the afore mentioned Father of the Dual Concentric™ design. While the Tannoy Westminster may visually look like a vintage horn design, it is not. Rather, the Westminster Project was initiated at the request of Tannoy's longstanding Japanese distributors, TEAC Esoteric, to serve as a noteworthy successor to the famous Autograph corner horn that was designed by Ronald Rackham so many years ago. Alex Garner, the Technical Director at Tannoy at the time of TEAC Esoteric's request, did the acoustic development for the first version of the Westminster (those colorful reports that they are a long lost and born again design of Guy R. Fountain are merely a bit of delightful fiction). In 1. 98. 7 Dr. Paul Mills joined Tannoy as a Senior Design Engineer (and is now Director of Research and Engineering), and helped Alex Garner, then the Technical Director of Tannoy, put the finishing touches to the Westminster Royal, the successor to the original Westminster, which was launched that year. Dr. Mills then took over development of the Westminster Project and has continued to develop the concept to make the Westminster Royal Special Edition what it is today. Like Ronald Rackham for his design of the Dual Concentric™, if the Nobel Prize Committee awarded Nobel Prizes in Audio, certainly Alex Garner and Dr. Paul Mills would have won awards for their brilliant design work that has brought us the original Westminster, and now the Westminster Royal Special Edition, one of the most noteworthy designs in the history of audio. There have actually been five different versions of the Westminster over time, the first version being produced from 1. That first Westminster used a 1. Dual Concentric™ speaker with a foam surround on the bass driver, and was installed into a massive and complex compound horn cabinet, with both front and rear horn loading. The second version of the Westminster, called the Westminster Royal, was produced from 1. The Westminster Royal had an even larger cabinet than the first Westminster, and was made more rigid by using thick birch plywood for its construction. The Westminster Royal also used better capacitors in its crossover and Van den Hulwiring throughout. The third version of the Westminster, called the Westminster TW (Tulip Waveguide) was produced from 1. Westminster Royal. The Westminster TW was a lower cost version of the Westminster that used a ferrite magnet instead of the more expensive (and better sounding) Alnico magnet, and had a smaller cabinet volume than the Westminster Royal. The fourth version of the Westminster, called the Westminster Royal HE, was produced from 1. The 'HE' in its name referred to the 'Hard Edge' impregnated fabric surround on the bass driver which stored less energy, and which gave it a faster and more articulate sound than its predecessors. Clan Of Xymox Visible 2 DvdThat brings us to the fifth and current version in the evolutionary development of the Westminster Royal, the Westminster Royal Special Edition (SE), which was introduced in 2. The Westminster Royal SEs have entirely hand built compound horn- loaded birch plywood cabinets, each with a volume of 5. Internally the cabinets are cross- braced for rigidity and heavily damped to eliminate resonances that could degrade their sound quality. The cabinets are finished in beautifully applied book- matched walnut veneer, solid walnut trim, and walnut burl highlights—the overall effect is quite stunning and it can be quite hard to take your eyes off the speakers when listening to music at first. The cabinets are hand- waxed before leaving the finishing workshop, and Tannoy thoughtfully includes a specially formulated wax with the loudspeakers so new owners can keep them looking as good over time as they did when they were new. The cabinets have casters on their bottoms to aid moving them into position, and believe me they are an absolute necessity when trying to move these behemoths. The speakers come with machined cups that the owner can place under the casters for additional isolation after the speakers' final position is determined (which I haven't got around to trying yet). Each Westminster Royal SE speaker cabinet incorporates two 1. Dual Concentric™ drive unit and exit at the front cabinet corners (see the cutaway diagrams of the cabinets below). The rear horn starts acoustic coupling to the drive unit at 3. Hz and provides low frequency response down to 1. Hz (- 6d. B). Above 3. Hz the low frequency drive unit is coupled to the front horn and provides frequency response in the range of 3. Hz to 1. 00. 0Hz. The high frequency compression driver component of the Dual Concentric™ drive unit provides frequency response from. Hz to 2. 00. 00. Hz. The Westminster Royal SE's 1. Dual Concentric™ drive units are objects of beauty, with their elegant golden Westminster logo on the indigo low frequency driver cones, and their glowing, golden, high frequency Pepper- Pot Wave Guides™ (so named because its interior pattern of openings in the wave guide looks like the openings in a pepper shaker). The Westminster Royal SE uses the latest and most refined version of Tannoy's Dual Concentric™ 1. Alcomax 3 drive unit, which incorporates Alnico magnets and a computer designed and manufactured reverse throat high frequency Pepper- Pot Wave Guide™. Alnico magnets are revered by horn loudspeaker aficionados for their incredibly lifelike tone, and in the Westminster Royal SE Alnico magnet assemblies provide flux generation for both the high and low frequency driver motors, maintaining a strong magnetic flux around each voice coil in its precision air gap.
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