tannoy legacy series
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yuckyamson
pfm Member
Heard the ardens today at a wonderful dealer, Audio by Mark Jones here just outside Toronto.
What a fabulous speaker. It's basically like buying a heavily discounted and sleeker pair of Canterburys.
All the trademark Tannoy qualities were there. But behind that they were refined and upper class. More detail than I had expected, smooth delivery and a very fair tonal balance. I didn't hear much "colouration", although I think colour is often invited fwiw.
I think they're actually excellent value. Fit and finish were better than expected.
Heartily recommended.
What a fabulous speaker. It's basically like buying a heavily discounted and sleeker pair of Canterburys.
All the trademark Tannoy qualities were there. But behind that they were refined and upper class. More detail than I had expected, smooth delivery and a very fair tonal balance. I didn't hear much "colouration", although I think colour is often invited fwiw.
I think they're actually excellent value. Fit and finish were better than expected.
Heartily recommended.
tuga
Legal Alien
Class AB amps too, none of the this Class D nonsense!
Well in that case why don't they have a heatsink like any other active speaker?
cooky1257
pfm Member
Port cooling airflow?
tuga
Legal Alien
Fingers crossed.
cooky1257
pfm Member
I've no idea but the power output isn't exactly stellar so how much heat needs to dumped, is the amp chassis a sufficient sink, not all amps have fins?
yuckyamson
pfm Member
So, um, yeah. In this thread here about the legacy series....here....the ardens sound great!
cooky1257
pfm Member
So did you buy them?
yuckyamson
pfm Member
No hells no. I don't have a spare $8k. I also don't have a spare 60" in my room. But I wanted to know how they sound and I would say they were....on par with my expecations in some regards and exceeded them on others.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
erm...that's not how things should work tho is it?
It may be logical to some to advertise your greed for profit and sod the poorer man, but it's not really an admirable strategy IMO.
Tony L
Administrator
Brexit tax?! Maybe aggressively hedging a predicted depreciating local currency, increased imported materials costs and inflation. Most Tannoy Prestige or Legacy sales will be to the far east so I suspect a lot will be down to how they predict Yen etc will translate to £. Even so it is still a heck of an increase, it will be interesting to see if they keep the sales.
PS Given they are now owned by Music Group (Behringer etc) it wouldn’t surprise me if all production didn’t end up in China at some point. I hope I’m wrong on that one.
PS Given they are now owned by Music Group (Behringer etc) it wouldn’t surprise me if all production didn’t end up in China at some point. I hope I’m wrong on that one.
Elephantears
Trunkated Aesthete
Some great used ones at audio emotion though. The Eatons with stands are a nice deal.
https://www.audioemotion.co.uk/loudspeakers-379-c.asp
https://www.audioemotion.co.uk/loudspeakers-379-c.asp
Grenadier_45
pfm Member
I can strongly recommend both Audio Emotion, who are just lovely to deal with, and the Legacy Ardens. I bought my pair from them last autumn.
