Thank you for another piece of audio history. You have the greatest collection on the planet. I'm glad you gave the Advents a break as reference speakers, the poor things were getting their butts kicked.

My God Man... Your vintage collection is beyond mind blowing! I can't even start to imagine the value wrapped up in that collection. Something else Mate.

I have a pair of Tannoy gold mercury two speakers. They look fantastic and sound equally great! Vintage speakers, in good condition still sound fantastic. Great vid!

Some of the best speakers I've heard were monster Tannoys, almost the size of a refrigerator on a top end Chinese tube pre and two high power mono block tube amps. Pretty impressive and fantastically dynamic.

You have a fascinating hobby there; buying stuff like that. I'm relegated to pretty much sticking with the stuff I got, but improving its performance. I do get better sound quality each month. So it's poor me, but not so poor me. Castle Acoustics in England, which was a cabinet maker extraordinaire, for other speaker companies, made some wide speakers like that, and then then went narrow following the trend and pholosophy that narrower cabinets mean less surface area for cabinet diffraction. Castle Acoustics cabinets are truly a marvel in beauty and build quality. I'm looking for a second pair of Era Design D4 speakers, in glossy black, so I can stack them. Stacked, they make a very formidable loudspeaker. Their cabinets are built like a rock too.

I have the Lancaster Tannoy gold 15s, all original, given to me by my father who was dating a woman who wanted to get rid of them because they reminded her of her ex.... Her loss, my gain!! 25 years and still rockin!!!

These are rare

The Tannoy have such a cool factor, they look about the same size a a Cornwall. What a great piece of audio greatness ,you are a lucky man.

Scott, you’ve really scored some unicorns this month. That Tannoy is a monster and gorgeous. I’m amazed at its condition. Btw, the Brit’s also “hoover” when they vacuum like listening to the “Tannoy”. I just purchased a modern speaker with the same concept. The Mofi Sourcepoint 8. Dual concentric as well.

Those are 3808 drivers. Ive got a pair in custom built enclosures and another spare set. Someone here said they are good for voices and instruments and challenging on hard rock which is true. I also find them finicky about amplification. Im having very good results with a Fostex 300 power amp and KM SP100 pre amp.

After living in England for 3 years, I learned why British speakers tend to be a polite voicing. The places I lived were all brick. Bright speakers like proac can be painful without LOTS of treatment and mellow electronics. It's not like more spacious wood homes in the USA.

I have the m3000. Very similar but rubber surround so go a little deeper at cost of a couple of dB sensitivity. These are not normal speakers. My experiences: you need to wall or corner load them. In free space they are very dry. The bass is deep and no overhang, but actual level is low. With wall augmentation you’ll get 25hz and plenty of chest thump on rock and dance music. Use a solid state amp with plenty of power. 20w valves cannot handle these or play to their qualities unless you only listen to string quartets. Most 70s/80s rock and pop was monitored on these, they are not for classical music. They do poor material no favours. I also listen on quality head phones (DT 880s) and the voicing is identical. It’s true they will blow you out of the room on rock if you turn them up. Just like your headphones will, they do not soften with volume, they just get louder, seemingly without limit, the sound character not changing. These are not normal speakers. You’ll find it hard to go back, everything else sounds somehow fake, like a pale imitation.

Thanks for another great review and I would love just to hear either of these in action let alone own a pair.

A few years ago I purchased a pair of SM 3000 that were still installed in a studio, just similar to these but with foam surrounds. I really liked their looks standing beside my JBL 4430`s. But just as you said - they need the right material to perform ! Great for voices, acoustic instruments, piano but absolutely unbearable for hard rock, my favourite style. Especially the harsh compression of the (too) small horn was quite (T)annoying. Just the opposite to my JBL`s that can play everything and never get agressive. So the Tannoys had to go - though seeing your`s almost made me regret selling them.

That Tannoy is huge!

I think what I've heard with Tannoy is that they are pretty true to the original sound. They don't really color the music. Something you can't say about most speakers. Vintage Altec being the other.

I'm looking for a pair of M1000's as my end game speakers.

Love your Chanel, hope to see a review of your IMF speakers

I listen a wide spectrum of music. House, Jazz, but also electro. How is this speaker with electro?

Your praising the wrong speaker. Move over a few inches. The Pionere

Have you come across the Leak 2075 the one with the ribbon tweeter

And I’ve got some speakers you might be interested in if you can’t ever make a trip to Ohio but it looks like a lot of what you’re picking up is 80s speakers which is cool I’ve got a set that look like they’re probably from the 70s maybe even a little earlier than that because of the way, the baskets are designed on thembut for what I’ve been told they’re hardly sold after speakers amongst the tube gear people it’s got a funky tweeter horn in each cabinet that has actually two inputs for the small tweeter, which I have never seen before so let me know if if you’re interested

I wonder what testing through G-R Research might show regarding the Tannoy.

I'm still looking for another pair or Advents.

Sorry. You did mention them

iI heard the new Tannoy Legacy speakers are not as good as the older ones...the tweeters are said to be ear fatiguing😮...shame on Tannoy...it may never be the same😢

Your "Bass Line" speaker? Um, No. Perhaps "Control Sample". Acid Jazz, Funk & Brass 🔈🔉🔊

First Tannoy «Black» & «Silver» in the late 1940's, early 1950's, then Tannoy «Red» 1957-65, then Tannoy «Gold» ...

Good god this thing is a disaster in design