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In the Thread: Tannoy Red 1960s: some sober reality
Post Subject: The Summer Monitors?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/27/2007
 starboy wrote: |
| … though I've always had a monkey/Tannoy on my back which is surprising as I don't really care for box speakers.. |
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I am playing now with something similar. I have a small sealed monitor 14 by 24 with an unavoidable 10” Red and it is interesting to see what it does. What I learned is hat the key to make to sound OK is the damping of the box. Too strong damping yield lower bass and actuate the primary resonance, converting the Red into contemporary crappie drivers. Too little damping and the box begin to kick in the picture. The perfect damping, as I see it, (for this driver) is when the primary resonance is “spreader” well into the upper bass and lower MF but without compressing staring. I think if the correct damping is found for the given box and for the given box constriction techniques then it the smallest Reds in a sealed box could do quite well.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site