Would love to see a tour of all of your vintage hifi. Keep the reviews coming please.

The best and only vintage review I watch keep it coming!!

Keep it coming kelvin always look forward to your reviews

Fighting the Sunday blues with a new Stereo review X video, thanks Kelvin, good honest review! I also think that there must be some bargains among those late 90s speakers... they're not really vintage and cult yet, people just want to get rid of them. Unfortunately, most of them don't look as good as the old Kef or B&W or Celestion - personal opinion, no offence. In Berlin I find loads of Canton speakers, but I didn't like the sound of the few ones I listened to... British stuff is not cheap here, and hard to come by.

As an owner myself I was relieved to find your review of the R3s accurate. If I found it wasn't, I'm not too sure what I would make of your other reviews. Whew! I also find that there is a kind of a veil over the midband, which in my case I put down to the MDF cabinet. Other speakers like the KEF Q55s hold better value but these are warmer and tonally superior. Call it an old fashioned sound if you want but they are very easy to live with long term. However, I must reiterate your closing point about these being an absolute bargain. Absolutely.

They still look beautiful!

Thanks. Kelvin, once again a fantastic honest experienced review. So nice to see these coming back on KZfaq again.

It would be good to see a comparison with some brand new towers.

Great to see you testing some budget HiFi. Times are tough.

Great to see you back Kelvin. I have AE109s that I originally bought in 1997 and replaced once. From what you describe they may be in the same kind of category as these. Great thump in them and good treble. I think the midrange could be better but great in a 5.1 setup that I switch to when watching movies (using a different amp). Thank you and please keep the reviews going as you are so good at describing sound through words.

I have a pair of Tannoy model 637. They are from the first part of the nineties. Pretty good but a bit too polite. Could use some sprucing up. Closed box towers with a dual concentric mid/tweeter and a bass driver. Good sound stage. Especially doing brass instruments well.

Seen a pair on EBay Kelvin there in Poland and there way over £300 I’m happy with my Tannoy M20 Golds great review Sir

So good to see you reviewing again Kelvin. Are you going to review the Meridien over your left shoulder? Always wondered what they sounded like!

I had the slightly smaller R2 model (only sold them a couple of years ago actually) and I couldn't agree more with your assessment! I was nodding uncannily with every single thing you said. They actually annoyed me, as I adored the look of them, but they were underwhelming and "meh". Inoffensive is a good word. They played music but they just weren't musical. They didn't sing.

HEY BUD. YOUR SOOOO RIGHT. NICE MIDRAGE SOOOO IMPORTANT. EVERY SPEAKERS ALWAYS SKIP GOOD MIDS. YOU ADD A PAPER 6INCH MID TO THESE AND SOO MUCH BETTER

Iv'e owned a pair of these R3's for a couple of years and would like to add some of my experience. - bass is more or less what Kevin is describing IF you don't sand fill them or put them on spikes. If you do fill them up with a few kg of sand and put them on spikes the bass and mid-range becomes very good indeed. Some times the bass can become to much of a good thing and half plugging the port with a sock can be beneficial. Also try the bass port filled with plastic straws. - they are slim, much more so than are shown in the video. Sand filling will also help with stability. - cabinet is rock solid ! Knuckle test will lead you to believe they are ten times the price. - they are made with real wood veneer and are really beautiful looking. - my only negative thing about them is the tendency to be sibilant which a bad recording and/or bad electronics can pull out of them. They are not sibilant with a good recording nor if you feed them with high quality electronics. If you sand fill them, put them om spikes and place them as should be, then you have a pair of super nice speakers for a bargain.

Totally agree. After replacing the capacitors with foil ones, the sound improves especially in the treble and midrange sections.

Mercury speakers with white cones was my first speakers but loved bass of d series in demo room

Evening Kelvin, love the way you describe how things sound , I would love you to get hold of or comment on the Bowers and Wilkins 601 series3 I'd love to hear what you think.

Excellent and interesting review 👍 💯

Correct, from 850hz to 2.2khz these are down by just over 6db, simply because theres no midband speaker only a tweeter and 2 woofers, these are 2 way not 3 way.

I'm in your camp when it comes to speakers. I have Celestion Ditton 11's and Kef Coda 2's . I can't get on with modern speakers There' s something missing somehow. Love your chats.

Nice to see trying some of the bigger boys! Can't get scale without them in most cases. Must have been a bit disappointing with the sound after hauling in from the universe! I have a pair of b&w dm3000's from 86 that sound fantastic still to this day! Their damn heavy 5 sided beasts at 86 lbs each, but worth every penny. Best way to move them is roll em end too end. Probably plenty around still in your part of the world for cheap, being made there. Be awesome to here your view on those if your back's good and your willing! Lol Cheers from Cape Breton, Canada!

Hiya Kelvin … YET AGAIN ANOTHER Brilliant upload and loaded as always with vital HIFI Information, witch by the way is invaluable for us ALL … Kelvin I say this with the utmost respect .. you are like out modern day version of tomorrows world HIFI EQUIPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE WISE .. I’m these forever changing and crazy times IT IS SO SO NICE just to lean back a decade or 2 and remember what it was all about … I am trying to keep it as ANALOG AS POSSIBLE as the warmth it gives you is MAGIC .. Kelvin This is London Bermondsey calling… Keep up the much much needed good work … You viewers ARE OUT HERE .. Thank you AS ALWAYS for ALL YOU POSITIVE INPUT And of course your TIME / EFFORT AND ENERGY… ☮️

Great review as always! 😀

Hi Kevin, you are right, you can very well describe the sound of any audio component. Here is a good example.

After the recent hiatus any new Stereo review X is a treat but this made me sit up and hit rewind - did Kelvin really make a reference to John Martyn/ Solid Air as a test track? Fantastic. If this was the first use of said track hopefully it will not be the last. I spent the rest of the review with Danny Thompson's bass lines and JM vocals swirling around my mind along with K's commentary of how the TR R3's didn't quite do the track justice. Glorious.

Great review once again! I like the subjective sound aspect you give rather than just technical details. Two big drivers close together is obviously going to greate some resonance/disturbance, i.e. when the sound waves cross over they could amplify or cancel out the sound depending where you are in terms of place in the wavelengths. I don't know how the crossovers are designed between those drivers but that's the point...there will be a 'crossover' to resolve. Great tip on deciding going prices on eBay in terms of sold items. I always do this but there needs to be decent number of sales to analyse. You have to identify and take away outliers, i.e. very high or low sold items. Then with the remaining sample within the confidence limit take the median sale item. Basic stats! Btw why don't you set up a donation fund (crowdfund or monthly subs), i.e. people donate to your channel and you use the money to go buy HiFi stuff to review?

Brilliant review.

They look like good AC/DC type of speakers 😊

I had several spakers. Pmc. A.P. B.W. xanadu you name it. This are the one to go. No screaming highs. Long listable. Everything you need.

Thanks for the honest review Kelvin! Pls keep them coming!

Love your videos, have watched them all. As a diy speaker builder myself, from your description of their sound as in 'very accurate' but not 'exciting enough' I can't help but think that these speakers will probably benefit from better quality crossover components, (of identical values) It sounds to me like its a good design but has pretty cheap caps and coils in there like pretty much all commercial speakers unfortunately. Some decent caps (which will really help the top end) and larger gauge air core coils (which will do wonders for the bass and mid range) will probably bring it to life in a big way. Done this myself in my own stuff and the differences are amazing. BTW: I think that is a 2.5 way which is effectively a 2 way but with an extra bottom woofer rolled of earlier. Keep up the good work, Love it.

I brought home a pair of Tannoy Mercurys for $100 from a pawn shop. Damn...that was lucky...anything bigger would overpower my space.

Love to hear a review on tannoy precision 6.2 Kevin

2nd hand floor standers are always seem to be a good price compared to smaller stand mounters

A good class D amplifier would force them to do better. Especially in the bass department.

Great review, loved the big screen / little screen analogy, a great way to explain it. I’ve just got back from Bristol show and heard Kef LS50 (or similar) for the first time, I thought they were horrible, yet many seem to highly rate them. I much prefer a big speaker, and I love 70’s speakers in particular. I also use my ears, I don’t care about lab specs, I care about the sound I hear, but something seems to have gone wrong somewhere with modern speakers, no musicality somehow!

Wot...no spectral analysis? Frequency response? Test tones?? Haha only joking. Who cares about that shit? Love that you straight away Get to the Music, Kelvin - how did they sound with music.

Another great review .

Hi mate, a friend of mine just purchased a pair of Eltax new 70’s style speakers from that vintage shop near you that you showed on the channel, I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts on those Eltax, for example, have they recaptured the vintage sound?… just thought it might be an idea for a future review? They are called PWR 1959 I believe, and they are a 3 way with two ports.

Great descriptions of the sound. I’ve never had the pleasure of hearing Tannoys, so I was very interested to hear your thoughts. Would you consider these to be representative of the Tannoy sound of that era, at least?

theyve got some welly?awsome! these seem to maybe the opposite of my zu dw2s.they are all about mid range.

70 to 100£ ‽‽‽ I bought a pair of these in 2001 or 2002 for 1500 $ CDN !!! Adjusted for inflation, that's 2460 $ CDN (1400 £) in 2024 ! Wow! It’s quite a depreciation. But I like them...

I know you’re not a big fan of modernish Kef speakers but would love you to review Kef Q55.2 speakers. Reason being I reviewed many speakers back then, including tannoy etc but these Kefs had a musicality others lacked. They were sold as surround sound but after having a number of speakers I keep going back to these Kefs for music.

It would be nice if you mentioned the amp and source equipment. Love your show dude.

Hello Kelvin.

I've just had a quick look on ebay the only pair I could see, they were asking the best part of £400.

this sound very good but i´m ok with last 4 years bought speakers, since the 70´s tannoy was maybe my favorite brand along with JBL. What amplifiers you used to test this ?i would like to know because i listen to one of this and are incredible good but we conect them to a C3 and two M6´s pre and power amplifiers from pioneer exclusive series from the 70´s, with a P3 turntable and a P10 from rega, i have the luck of being friend of a person that owns a music store since the 70´s and Akai was and still is a brand represented by him, i have litle speakers with diferent design outside but nothing sounds better than big wooden cabinets ,inside is where all sound is driven

What's your take on the Castle Trent II speakers!? I reckon that they're a fabulous bargain.

Bought a pair if Mordant Short 906 Avant 3 way floor standers 4 years ago for £100 - best value ever would appreciate your view on these!

I’ve just acquired a set of there new Revolutions the XT6f’s I was expecting to be blown away what with all the 5star reviews they got! But I’m not.. 😢 they’ve replaced a set of Totem Arro’s which for there size were really great speakers.. I feel that the tweeter being placed in the midrange driver just gets a bit lost!! Maybe it’s placement or amp issues! Using an Audiolab 6000A! I paid £350 for a mint set of these Tannoys…

try sticking a sock in it,, block up your port might help give you better bass more control

I have a pair of Athena AS-F2 loudspeakers, they are pretty similar to these speakers, would these speakers sound similar?

Hi! Due to your description these ones are good for the home theater if connect them with central channel and sub

Hi kelvin I want to split the signal from my cd player to 2 pre amps using a splitter will I loose sound quality Thanks

which is better if it compare with b&w 2004?