Tannoy Stirlings on the way!

Congrats, @sandthemall !  Sounds like great kit, though I'm not familiar with the preamp.  Will have to look that one up.

Aside from a quick check that everything's working, I never actually listen to new speakers (if I can help it).  I just let them play in another room for a few days.  Once they're run in a bit, that's when I sit down and start figuring out what's what.  Even then, I kinda ease into it.

Hope you enjoy those Turnberrys (Turnberries?)!

@trentmemphis

I completely see the wisdom in letting them play in.
It's been tough having them slowly break in.  

The Don Sachs Model 2 preamp is outstanding...pretty much an end game preamp. And can be customized to a certain extent to play well with your other components.

Well said.

The advantage of the never-ending Tiktoc threads
is that serve to siphon off many folks whose contributions are best
confined to the Tekton Files.

It has been two months now so we all want to know-
How Sterling are those speakers? 

Tell us your thoughts please!

Greetings from Croatia, the city of Zagreb !!!
I use Google translation, so maybe I'll write some nonsense :)
Since a week ago I have become the proud owner of Tannoy Stirling GR speakers (for the last 20 years I have exclusively Klipsch from RF, Heresy all the way to the Palladium series).
I still respect Klipsch, but Tannoy Stirling GR is a very very third dimension.
Very pleasant surprise :)
I use an Luxman SQ-N100 (10W 8Ω) amplifier and that combination works perfectly.
I know the burning time has yet to pass.
I decided to lift them to a custom wooden stand (19 cm = 7.48 inches already under construction) lined with American walnut veneer.
Do I have to worry that the sound will degrade?

I don’t know how I didn’t see this thread before, haven’t posted much anywhere I guess. I’ve had my Stirlings since August now. So happy about them! The depth and sound stage just blow me away every time I sit down and listen. They certainly improve as I tweak the placement, but at the same time they never sound bad.

Running them with a Primaluna 300 Integrated and coupled with two REL Ti7’s. I don’t think the RELs are essential for the Stirlings at normal volumes (though they certainly don’t hurt), but at low volumes the RELs are magical. I do most of my listening in my small NYC apartment after work, so I keep the volume way down, but I turn the RELs up a few notches and increase the HF power on the Stirlings and the results are incredible. I don’t feel like I am missing anything with the volume so low.

To comment on a post a while back asking about comparison with the Turnberrys, at the dealer I spent a good while listening to both the Turnberrys and the Stirlings. I’ll also note that I was considering Klipsch Fortes at the time as well. Short story on those, the 2k jump from the Fortes to these Stirling was a no brainer. But going another 2k from the Stirlings to Turnberrys was a much closer call. To me the Turnberrys just did everything Stilrings did, but a bit better. Although the Turnberrys certainly sounded better, the improvement wasn’t so drastic that I had to have the Turnberrys, so I let my small room size take precedence over better sound quality and I went with the Stirlings that would take up a bit less space in my room.