That Supatrac arm look cool as hell. I wonder if it is superior to the best Rega arm…
It looks odd, and frankly, cheap, to me.. But what do I know? I didn't hear it.
Are you able to rate the Tannoys against the Fyne? I always wondered how similar/ different they are.
Not really, because ..different rooms and systems as I recall. All a bit academic anyway as I can afford neither and am not looking to change my system . Both sounded excellent. I thought the Fyne argument for their upwards firing 360 degree supertweeter, as opposed to the 'beaming' effect of conventional ones made sense, but again..I'd need a lengthy and pointless demo of something I can't afford to find out.
I must have had my eye off the ball when the famous Tannoy 'split' and the establishment of Fyne occured, so I can't comment. Interestingly, neither company seemed prepared to engage in 'badmouthing' the other.. which was nice. OTOH, whilst the Tannoy website still has a complete Co. history, Fyne's website has nothing.
fab , glad you liked the tannoys . when you get a chance pin down the reps on manufacturing ... cranage guy said made in Hamilton
We had a longish discussion on Saturday (our second day), with the Tannoy guys on the static display. My pal has Canterburys, which are now around £32k I think. They were also seemingly genuinely interested in my tale of how I was flown to Coatbridge to hear the Westminster Royals, have a factory visit, lunch with their MD etc.. in the company of sometime Hi-Fi World journo Eric Braithwaite. Around 1992 I think.
Coatbridge has gone, but they did say they have a plant in Hamilton. Somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind is a vague memory that Tannoy's more 'entry level' stuff is now of Chinese manufacture, whilst the Prestige Series is still made in Scotland. Anybody have a definitive answer?
We both agreed the Rogers room was horrendous leading us to skip all other BBC-like rooms.
You're entitled to your view, but Rogers sounded good to me when I went in on Friday.
Michell Tecnodec (first hearing for me, sounded as good as a Gyro!) with Arcam A25 and PMC Prodigys
Yep, I totally agree. I'd be interested to hear those PMCs on the end of my Orbe, LFD set up, even though pricewise they are probably relatively cheaper than my Rogers S3/AB3 set up which cost £1k 28 years ago.
I mainly went into the Michell room to touch base with Steve Rowlands of that Co. A true gent and AFAIK now officially retired, but always helpful above and beyond etc..
I went out to the car and it wouldn't start. When it did it sounded lumpy and I could smell petrol. So no show for me.
A misfire? I'd have checked all plug leads for damp/ proper connection and tried again.
Bottom line, my friend and I had a great couple of days.
My plan to park up close to the show by taking advantage of my Blue Badge helped a lot, but mostly just saved me a couple of quid in Parking charges. We arrived just after opening on the Friday and left at closing time, thoroughly knackered.
Food and a couple of drinks in the Filton Travelodge, a decent night's kip, shower and a better than hotel average breakfast, set us up for a shorter but more relaxed Saturday. My friend spent most of his time buying very expensive 'One Step' and similar sooper dooper pressings of vinyl. I resisted that temptation as I have lots of unplayed vinyl at home (and less spare cash). I focused on chatting with a few old faces. Mostly, I didn't hear anything affordable to me that would make me want to change. Special mention though, to Wilson Benesch, whose rooms I have previously found to be massively underwhelming, but who this time got it pretty near perfect albeit with a c.£19k ( entry level!!!) speaker in a £70k system. They cleverly mixed the music too, so that the contrast between a fully layered classical orchestra and sparse stuff such as McCartney/Beatles 'Blackbird', moved things on from the all too common 'sweet voiced girl with guitar' stuff.
Drive both ways was fairly stress free apart from a brief and inexplicable hold up just before we left the M6. Also worked out cheaper than the train.
I'd go again.
