Hi everybody,
This is my first message to this group (sorry for my "average"
English ) and these are my first Tannoy speakers!
With the assistance of two buddies (me I raise of lumbago, it is
hardly if I can carry an LS3/5 A...), I have just brought back home
two large boxes (approximately 110 cm in height, 65 cm broad,
41 cm of depth) containing each one a Tannoy Blue driver. This
is the version reserved for the Canadian market of the coaxial
speaker (Dual Concentric, to be a more tannoyist that the pope)
known elsewhere under the name of HPD, here in 12 inches
version (30 cm).
The salesman, a sympathetic Canadian who works with NATO,
in Brussels, had bought these enclosures secondhand
approximately twenty years ago, with one of his buddies in
Quebec. Which buddy had them since ten years. At sight of
nose, the speakers and the cabinet works thus go back to 1975
or about. As one could expect, the foam suspension is
completely rotten.
First question (especially for the Belgian members of this group,
if any): who knows, in Belgium, somebody who remakes the
Tannoy suspensions properly and at reasonable price? One
said to me to be wary of one or the other guy (in particular on the
side of Waterloo), who works like a pig.
Second question: the front baffle of the enclosure (+- 2 cm
thickness, and where the driver is fixed by the back) comprises a
vent of 41 cm x 11 cm. This vent was sealed by a wood plate.
Which leaves me perplexed. Do I have to conclude from it that the
first owner intended to make function the enclosure out of
bass-reflex and that he ended up finding that a closed load
sounded better?
In which load does the 30 cm Blue (alias HPD) work best? And
still a question: the binding posts accept only speaker cables of
very low diameter. Is it advised to replace them? And how to
proceed since these binding posts seem interdependent of the
crossover and the adjustments of slope and intensity of the
treble?
Thank you in advance for your advised answers.
Cristobal, a very recent and slightly perplexed tannoyist...
(P.S.: These automatic translation engines are not so bad, after
all. But they still need a little help ).
This is my first message to this group (sorry for my "average"
English ) and these are my first Tannoy speakers!
With the assistance of two buddies (me I raise of lumbago, it is
hardly if I can carry an LS3/5 A...), I have just brought back home
two large boxes (approximately 110 cm in height, 65 cm broad,
41 cm of depth) containing each one a Tannoy Blue driver. This
is the version reserved for the Canadian market of the coaxial
speaker (Dual Concentric, to be a more tannoyist that the pope)
known elsewhere under the name of HPD, here in 12 inches
version (30 cm).
The salesman, a sympathetic Canadian who works with NATO,
in Brussels, had bought these enclosures secondhand
approximately twenty years ago, with one of his buddies in
Quebec. Which buddy had them since ten years. At sight of
nose, the speakers and the cabinet works thus go back to 1975
or about. As one could expect, the foam suspension is
completely rotten.
First question (especially for the Belgian members of this group,
if any): who knows, in Belgium, somebody who remakes the
Tannoy suspensions properly and at reasonable price? One
said to me to be wary of one or the other guy (in particular on the
side of Waterloo), who works like a pig.
Second question: the front baffle of the enclosure (+- 2 cm
thickness, and where the driver is fixed by the back) comprises a
vent of 41 cm x 11 cm. This vent was sealed by a wood plate.
Which leaves me perplexed. Do I have to conclude from it that the
first owner intended to make function the enclosure out of
bass-reflex and that he ended up finding that a closed load
sounded better?
In which load does the 30 cm Blue (alias HPD) work best? And
still a question: the binding posts accept only speaker cables of
very low diameter. Is it advised to replace them? And how to
proceed since these binding posts seem interdependent of the
crossover and the adjustments of slope and intensity of the
treble?
Thank you in advance for your advised answers.
Cristobal, a very recent and slightly perplexed tannoyist...
(P.S.: These automatic translation engines are not so bad, after
all. But they still need a little help ).
