Tannoy Prestige Stirling

I’ve been a Tannoy fan for the past 30 years and it has been a love afar from the start. Over the years, I have owned variety of speakers: Vandersteen, B@W 801,Western Electric 753 monitors, WE 755a, Beverage electrostatic, Quad electrostatic, Jensen field coil speakers, Hartley 220MS full range, Lowther full range, IMF 80 II. Sperndor BC1, Rogers, JBL Hartsfield and many other JBL models, Supravox full range field coil, and other extremely desired speakers. However, the sound of Tannoy speakers has been very close to my soul. The sound of Tannoy speakers has not been short of religious experience - extremely emotional, tonal perfection, coherent and realistic stage presentation, extremely dynamic and yet very palpable. Tannoy speakers are not soft or ether harsh sounding speakers. They can sound warm and they can have sound bite and quickness if needed. My favorite Tannoy speakers are GRF Silver 15" corner enclosures. I run them with Raytheon RM10 mono amplifiers, RCA MI-9355 mono amps, Studer A80, Stellavox reel to reel, Garrard 301, Thorans 124, custom octal tube preamplifier, Esoteric transport and Wadia dac.

For all of you, who don’t like the sound of Tannoy dual concentric speakers - these speakers are not forgiving. If your equipment and cables are not up to par, the Tannoy will sound terrible. Even the legendary Nelson Pass is using only Tannoy speakers in order to troubleshoot his equipment, and even he has trouble getting them sound wright. Inferior speakers will sound better if your system is not optimized.