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Actually it is good that you reminded me about the Tannoys as behind my recent paranoia with the “Water Drop” tweeter I forgot about the beauty that blessed my life. I am taking about the “older” Tannoy’s tweeters. What is magnificent sound!

I’m not an expert with Tannoys but friends on mine who are suggested me to look at the tweeters of the Tannoy’s from 60s. I did and loved it tremendously. Sure they do not have those “extrasensual benefits” that I am getting recently form RAAL’s ribbons (because Tannoy do not have a full blown midrange under them) but still the Tannoys compression tweeters do phenomenally good for what they do.

Sure, me, being me, hearing the result I was not able to help myself and I decided to look what they did. The irony is that what I saw in there made me very prod about myself – I actually re-invented some of the things they did in 2003. I have in one back-plate of my Vitavox S2 a 1/16” hole and I was trying to modify/tune the back-chamber cone damping by charging the air resistance of that hole, - I have this idea stolen from AudioTechnica headphones. Although I was able to vary the Vitavox S2 sound to great degree but I never was able to navigate Sound to the direction I intended. The Tannoy tweeter did the same only they have their cone, suspension and entire assembly initially designed in context of that semi-sealed back chamber. And they dot a very good sound out of their tweeters!!!

Juts for sake of pure audio pornography: here are my 10” Reds from 1960s in resonant sealed 6.5cub/feet. They came with a sexy front door that I removed….

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