Being Tannoy dual concentrics, there’s an easy-listening quality to the Gold 7s - there’s nothing taxing about them over extended listening and like many Tannoy studio monitors before them, could happily double as a hi-fi speaker.
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Either way, the Gold 7s have a big, full sound in the nearfield.
Interestingly, Hifi Next measured them flat-ish down to 50Hz which has more of the ring of truth for me, even if Tannoy quotes the 7s as 10dB down at 50Hz. Tannoy rates the Gold 7’s frequency response from 65Hz – 20kHz ☓dB. I know this type of arrangement isn’t unique, but it’s the first time this has really made sense to me in a pair of serious studio monitors. always on the move) you can very easily set the Tannoy Gold monitors into position and take the headphone output of your laptop. Or, if you’re a peripatetic sound person (ie. The primary connection is always likely to be balanced but if a client bring in a song on a phone you can easily pipe that into your system.
Some might question the use of the minijack cable. A switch on the back panel allows you to elect the primary loudspeaker as the left or right monitor. You can plug your device straight into one of the monitors via the supplied (and long) cable, then you link the two monitors with a second supplied (and long) cable. There’s the choice of jack or XLR inputs, a power saving mode along with a very handy minijack input mode. Also around the back are a few additional nifty inclusions. I mentioned the tonal switches on the front and back of the monitors. It says, we’re serious about maintaining the Tannoy dual-concentric legacy, even in this low-cost ~A$1000 price bracket. Offering Class-AB bi-amplification impresses me. In quieter moments, you get the Class-A goodness and when things are rockin’ you get the Class-B efficiency but the distortion is inaudible at that point. Class-AB is seen by many as the offering the best of both worlds. Class-B amps aren’t favoured so much by anyone in particular as they introduce distortion in the push/pull crossover point. Class-A amps are favoured by cardigan-wearing hi-fi fans but the hi-fidelity tradeoff is low efficiency and impracticality and/or lower lifespan. Normally you’d expect Class-D amplification, especially in this price bracket and not Class-AB. What’s also different is the 300W Class-AB onboard amplification. You can contour the bass by -2 and -4dB via a switch on the back panel. The 6.5-inch LF unit uses a bass reflex design with a front port. You can boost or attenuate (☒dB) the HF output via a five-position knob on the front. The design of the waveguides inside the horn resembles a tulip flower, hence Tannoy’s use of the term ‘HF Tulip Waveguide’, which they have a patent on from way back. If you look in the middle of the cone where the tweeter is, you’ll spot a couple of additional cylinders of different sizes which negates some of the resonances of the horn geometry. The Gold’s one-inch titanium tweeter is located behind the LF magnet and uses the magnet system and the 6.5-inch cone itself as the waveguide. Tannoy has had somewhat of a mortgage on dual-concentric monitors because they’re not easy to build and not easy to get sounding good.īut if you pull it off, the upside is superior imaging (thanks to low phase distortion and a uniform dispersion), given the sound is emanating from the same point source - something that really matters when your ear is only a few metres from the loudspeaker. So what’s the big deal about dual concentrics? I mean, if they were so good, others would be doing it, right?
So it was with some excitement that we learnt last year that Music Tribe was reinvigorating the Tannoy marque, pumping money into the relaunch of a new Tannoy dual-concentric monitor design. We’ve not seen much from the Tannoy brand since the Reveals of the Noughties although you can still buy current-generation Reveals which are handy but generically unspectacular two-ways. Tannoy joined the TC group a while back which then got picked up by Uli Behringer’s Music Tribe a few years ago. Tannoy holds a special position in the public consciousness and at various times been king pins in the world of hi-fi, studio monitoring and public address. Public announcements are heard, even now, over the ‘tannoy’. In Britain, Tannoy is the Kleenex or the Hoover of loudspeakers. They’ve been around a long time and traditionally have had a legion of fans. Tannoy dual concentric monitors are something special.
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