cooky1257
pfm Member
Over my 50 years of Tannoy fandom I've found a few favourites amongst the various iterations of the Dual Concentric and my favourite Monitor Gold is the first Tannoy DC I ever heard, the Monitor Gold 12R, the appreciation has never left me, I was hooked from the off.
My first pair of Tannoys were home build 12R corner Lancaster's, they were double thickness, had cement plinths were painted Fiat red with a 1" brushed aluminium frame around black Tigan grills they looked fantastic.
They were incredible, if a little bass heavy at times.
I've had lots of reminiscences/ fun listening to a pair of rectangular 12R Lancaster's over the past 4 months or so while I tidied them up.
They'd already benefitted from a rewire with OFC , a much needed shelf brace had been added and the port had been 'modified' to take account of the Lancaster tuning being for the HE version of the 12" DC...
The work: They needed new plinths- the originals had delaminated beyond repair, the 'Lytic cap in the crossovers was way out of spec, the original grill was torn and had been removed from the baffles leaving the old hard glue behind(a sod of a job to remove), the veneer was ok given their age, barring a plant pot water ring and a fag burn to one top(the 70's!). The new shelf wasn't parallel to the back panel and prevented it screwing down properly, the drivers needed a bit of a refresh and a service.
I'll post a series of pics with a few comments regards the construction/mods/quirks etc over the next few days.
My first pair of Tannoys were home build 12R corner Lancaster's, they were double thickness, had cement plinths were painted Fiat red with a 1" brushed aluminium frame around black Tigan grills they looked fantastic.
They were incredible, if a little bass heavy at times.
I've had lots of reminiscences/ fun listening to a pair of rectangular 12R Lancaster's over the past 4 months or so while I tidied them up.
They'd already benefitted from a rewire with OFC , a much needed shelf brace had been added and the port had been 'modified' to take account of the Lancaster tuning being for the HE version of the 12" DC...
The work: They needed new plinths- the originals had delaminated beyond repair, the 'Lytic cap in the crossovers was way out of spec, the original grill was torn and had been removed from the baffles leaving the old hard glue behind(a sod of a job to remove), the veneer was ok given their age, barring a plant pot water ring and a fag burn to one top(the 70's!). The new shelf wasn't parallel to the back panel and prevented it screwing down properly, the drivers needed a bit of a refresh and a service.
I'll post a series of pics with a few comments regards the construction/mods/quirks etc over the next few days.