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Old 05-24-2010, 10:56 PM
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Imagine the shock when a friend of mine told me yesterday evening that someone SOLD off the new Tannoy Westminster Royal SE because it does not sound as good as his Vintage/Original Westminsters!!!

The new Tannoys were barely less than 2 months old!

I dont know if anyone had this experience before but certainly, I dont! Anyone care to share or comment on the above?

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Old 05-24-2010, 11:06 PM
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Jerry.......That seems a bit bizaar to me to part with the Westminster Royal SE before it has had enough playing time to become thoroughly broken in, but then that is just my opinion. I have not heard either speaker. It makes me wonder how much of a loss he took.
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Here is a Studio example of Vintage Tannoy better than New Tannoy
Manley_ML_10_Tannoy_with_Mastering_Lab_Crossovers
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Newer Tannoy's have flatter frequency response curves, he must prefer the old school Tannoy coloured sound. I redesigned my HPD-385A crossovers so they sound more like modern Tannoy.
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Imagine the shock when a friend of mine told me yesterday evening that someone SOLD off the new Tannoy Westminster Royal SE because it does not sound as good as his Vintage/Original Westminsters!!!

The new Tannoys were barely less than 2 months old!

I dont know if anyone had this experience before but certainly, I dont! Anyone care to share or comment on the above?

Cheers!
Jerry,

I have had a few people tell me that the new ones are not as good. They say it is no longer made in the same factory, the wood is cheaper, the magnets are cheaper etc. I don't know how much of it is posturing by old fogies and how much is substance though...
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posturing by old fogies......
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if you asked someone who works at Tannoy .. like i did {friend of mine so nothing to posture about }
He said definitely old fogies.. posturing for sure .. lol
So much so that he's fed up !...with the North American consumer market ! -dealers etc ,, he ignores it/ them { this end of the Market }
concentrates on pro and commercial
Go figure .. so thats why not many people in North AMERICA LIKE TANNOY .. WE ARE OLD NOW .. WHERE IS THE NEW BLOOD IN THIS HOBBY HA ?? .. IPODS I GUESS
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if you asked someone who works at Tannoy .. like i did {friend of mine so nothing to posture about }
He said definitely old fogies.. posturing for sure .. lol
So much so that he's fed up !...with the North American consumer market ! -dealers etc ,, he ignores it/ them { this end of the Market }
concentrates on pro and commercial
Go figure .. so thats why not many people in North AMERICA LIKE TANNOY .. WE ARE OLD NOW .. WHERE IS THE NEW BLOOD IN THIS HOBBY HA ?? .. IPODS I GUESS
That's good to know. I have the new Tannoy Kingdom Royals in my sight...
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That's good to know. I have the new Tannoy Kingdom Royals in my sight...
Guess thats passe now! Tannoy just lost a BIG spending customer!
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