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In the Thread: Remedies the Beauty
Post Subject: Further experimentationPosted by Bill on: 10/17/2021
I have heard several Tannoy speakers in the past, but have never heard the quality of sound Romy has obtained with his brain child. I don't know whether it is the speakers alone or his setup which has allowed his system to enthrall so much more than I've heard in the past with other Tannoy setups.

 I have been working with Romy's excess cabinets, drivers and crossovers he let me borrow while he's hard at work with a new client( of course between his youtube excellent lectures.) like Romy I had previously had horns,  actually six 4 way combination of Edgar and self built horns in a surround sound configuration using a Trinnov pre-pro with a total of 24 channels of solid state amplification after selling my tube amplifiers due to financial constraints which have somewhat resolved. 

The Dannoy's ( as Romy spells it) are the main front channels driven at present with two stereo First Watt style balanced amps, and crossed over at 200 Hz to JL Audio 13 inch subwoofers. The Trinnov pre-pro has done dsp to time align all drivers to less than 0.1 mm phase correction and frequency flat to +/- 2 dB.  Romy also let me borrow his old and brand new Tannoy 12 dB/ octave crossovers and I have used a Behringer pro four way 24 dB crossover, and have found the cleanest, but with somewhat less “ it” factor with the Behringer. I could not hear any difference between the old and new Tannoy crossovers, but my system is somewhat hampered as I have not removed my Edgar horns from the Dannoy's sides, as My next experiment will be to use my 50 to 600 hz horns, so that may have affected the sound quality.

Happily, About 20% of my best recordings have improved in their emotional grab of my soul, Romy's so-called IT”. Unhappily, 80 % sound less inthralling compared to my Edgar horn presentation and I have not been able to come close to what I heard at Romy's, even with my best recordings. Whether that is due to his superior front end, his Yamaha amps or his room and recordings I have no idea, but I have two of his Yamaha B2 amps on order from Japan so hopefully they will improve the sound. 

Am now awaiting Romy time freedom and new speaker enclosure to further experiment with him.
Bill

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