Red Tannoy's any better than JBL D130 & tweeter??

[Teradacto58]

Are the Red Tannoy's any better sounding than 15" JBL D130's & good tweeter's?? I know a few people with 15" Tannoys, some are sort of snobbish about their speakers...just about everyone else's speakers don't rate, to their Tannoy's! I might be able to buy an old friends JBL D130's reasonable + Decca Tube amp!

 

[KentTeffeteller]

I like both! The Tannoy Reds are some of the best Dual Concentrics extant. The Monitor Golds are the only thing better that Tannoy made. The JBL combo you mention is also superb sounding. Listen to both and let your ears and musical tastes decide.

 

[dc270]

I have heard it said the D130 aluminum dustcap emmits some sonic artifacts- if so I never noticed. The ones I had rebuilt for me had the backside of the dustcaps coated with some kind of tar so they sounded pretty darn good to me! That is one of JBL's better made and sounding drivers!!
DC

 

[tensleep]

Do you have a shot at some Tannoy's or just the JBL's? Those D130's were THE standard for years. I daresay they are still wonderful; I have been looking around for a pair myself. Not real serious yet, but if I found a pair, I would probably figure out a way to get them! Same thing for the Tannoy's, if a pair came my way at a good price.

If it were a choice between the two, all things being equal, and I could only have one or the other, I would have to flip a coin.

 

[tom1356]

I like both! The Tannoy Reds are some of the best Dual Concentrics extant. The Monitor Golds are the only thing better that Tannoy made. The JBL combo you mention is also superb sounding. Listen to both and let your ears and musical tastes decide.

Have you heard the 12" monitor black? That's the best driver Tannoy ever made.

 

[toddalin]

I don't know about the Tannoys, but there is really no deep bass from a D130. In fact, the bottom octave and a half (or more) are MIA on the D130.

 

[WhiteSE]

I like Tannoys, but I still sold 3 pairs, so they didnt keep my attention...

 

[KentTeffeteller]

I have only heard the Blacks one time. These needed some repairs due to rattling. They otherwise sounded great. My son's Monitor Golds are heavenly sounding.

 

[GordonW]

I like both! The Tannoy Reds are some of the best Dual Concentrics extant. The Monitor Golds are the only thing better that Tannoy made.

Having just heard Tannoy Churchill Widebands (a friend just managed to buy a pair! ), I have to beg to differ.

The Churchill Wideband is simply the best sounding Tannoy, IMHO. The Blacks, Reds and Golds are very good, as are the HPDs and the current Prestige models (Kensington, Glenair, etc), but the Churchill is, as designer Mark Kinzie put it, "the most accurate monitor ever built". IMHO, that's not overstating it. Other than it only going down to 22 Hz (ONLY ), I can't think of anything I'd change, PERIOD. If a Churchill was flat to 15 Hz, it'd just about be the closest thing to an ideal speaker I've ever considered...

But, as to the question in hand- the vintageTannoys, IMHO, just do things the JBL D130/175DLH or D130/075 combos can't. Low end extension, smoothness through the upper mids, coherence, that's just a few things the Tannoys do better...

Regards,
Gordon.

 

[KentTeffeteller]

Heard a pair of Churchills yesterday. I agree completely. They're now in our family. The Tannoy to end all Tannoys! Very musical sounding and natural in character.

 

[WhiteSE]

Heard a pair of Churchills yesterday. I agree completely. They're now in our family. The Tannoy to end all Tannoys! Very musical sounding and natural in character.

u mean you bought some?

 

[4343]

There's a pair of 10" on CL

Auction links are not allowed outside of D&S. -Moderator
Sorry, I used to a different forum without that prohibition...

Not me... In SF

So , how do the 10's compare to the 12's and 15's?

I auditioned a lot of then-current Tannoy models a few years back when shopping for monitors for a studio. We settled on UREI 811's as the best for the available budget at that time, so am I likely to think the 10's are a bit bass-shy?