Tannoy Precision 8
Minette Mccandrew
The precision crossover is a hard-wired design. Hard-wiring, as opposed to using a PCB results in a cleaner, shorter signal path with less signal loss. The crossovers boast high-specification components (including low-loss laminated core inductors). The crossover here is designed for perfect integration between the Dual-Concentric driver and bass driver. Crossover frequencies for the Precision 6.2 are 170HZ/1.6KHZ.
I saw a new precision 6.2 for sale. Is this for rock and symfonic metal a better speaker than the Tannoy xt8f? Many people find the xt8f too bright and bussy sounding. I have heard the xt8f and IT has a strange hiss.
I have the Tannoy Precisions 6.2 floorstanders. I am thinking of buying the Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated amplifier ( used market ).
Will the Musical Fidelity A5 Amplifier go well with the Tannoys ?
Which speaker are better for rock and symfonic metal which often sound too bright; the Precision 6.2 OR the tannoy XT6F? OR maybe better q acoustics concept 40? In my area i saw a seconden hand precision 6.2. in mint condition for 1150 euro, a new XT6F for 1050 euro and a new concept 40 for 820 euro.
I have added a link below to a jpg which represent speaker placement at my home. The speakers will be placed as indicated in red.
The yellow markings A & B are the placement of speakers of the former house owner. IMO a terrible placement which is killing stereo audio.
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I spoke to Tannoy earlier this year who told me that the range was being discontinued. I suspect this is for one reason, profit! Because: 1) They did not meet sales targets and I would put his down to marketing issues, as the products are excellent, while no sound engineer expert, I have auditioned all three models. 2) They may have been costly to make, they certainly feel and sound expensive.
Take advantage of the keen pricing, they are great speakers, I think opinion was a little divided on the 6.1s and 6.4s, this I have concluded was down to price points, where as the 6.2s got universal praise but when the others were discounted even the 6.2s had to follow.
If you can get to a branch of Richer Sounds that have the 6.2 and 6.4 give them both a spin. The 6.4 might be a bit overwhelming if your listening room is a bit small but I think they are both great speakers. The closest that I found (although quite different) were PMC but they were over 2k so at current prices the precisions are great value! Ps if you have laminate floors try mounting them on isolation pads.
As I am now on the audition trail for a new amp to go with the Precission 6.4s I had the opportunity to listen to a pair of Spendor A6R speakers and while very good I was glad to get back to my Tannoys!
Is there any part of that set up that I should think about upgrading?
Is it worth putting sand in the speakers?
Should I bi-wire this, not sure what this is and get banana plugs or leave the bare wire?
You could perhaps later on look at adding a Rega DAC-R to complete the setup. You would then feed the digital outputs of the Apollo-R and Onkyo T4070 into the DAC-R, and take advantage of its superior digital processing capabilities to get the best from both components.
Hi Ashley,
It sounds as if you have given these speakers a decent listen. I have just moved to Australia and my Linn Keilidhs were destroyed in the move ( I have a Sondek/Akito/Adikt with a Majik DSM) and I heard the 6.2 at Richer Sounds before I moved. There was a lot of other speakers and people about but I thought they sounded brilliant and beautifully finished. I am nowhere near a Linn or Tannoy dealer here and would value your opinion. Thank you.
Martin.
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Tannoy has just released a special edition 6.2 precision series speakers. We are pleased announce that we have been able to secure a few pairs of this very limited speaker. We encourage everyone who is a Tannoy fan or simply looking for new set of speakers to come in a check them out.
4c have worked with Tannoy since 2008 in an industrial design capacity. During that time we have worked on a vast range of products; everything from the Kingdom Royal to their upcoming range of high precision tools to be included in the highest end speakers. The latest product to come from the partnership is the Precision 6, a floor standing residential speaker that both ourselves and Tannoy are particularly proud of (two of us are already planning to get a pair). This is a sneak peek of the final product which should be on sale in July 2012.
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According to the always-reliable Woman's Hour on Radio 4, a survey has revealed that women are far less good than men at identifying the quality of pain. When they visit a GP, and are asked how much something hurts and what kind of hurt it is, lady patients tend to vanish into a fog of near-descriptions. Men, by contrast, after being stupid enough to bang their thumb with a hammer, redeem themselves by the precision of their suffering, as they airily differentiate between a pain, an ache, a stab, a twinge, a cramp, a nip, a convulsion, a spasm, a tingle, a pang, a throb, a shooting arrow, and an effing agony.
Extraordinary to find such a difference between the sexes. I didn't realise women were so imprecise when it comes to complaining ("So, Tabitha, you've just had the baby without any anaesthetic - how did that feel?" "Hard to explain, John - there was a certain measure of discomfort. "Sorry to hear it. And the two-hour migraine in the middle of labour - what was that like?" "Hmm, difficult to put into words - it was, um, slightly disagreeable...") This doesn't accord with my experience of distressed females; most women I know use a very vivid lexicon of hurt bravely borne: every week, it seems, bits of them are either burning, or splitting or excruciating.
Doctors try to help by suggesting that women use a scale of pain from one to 10 to indicate the awfulness of their predicament. This is all very well, but it's too abstract. They need a proper hierarchy of pain, carefully calibrated to communicate levels of anguish. A list that asks: How bad is it? Is it as painful as:
...getting a phone call from a Pondicherry call-centre at 8pm, as you're cooking supper, from someone asking if you want to change your credit card to "a typical APR of 14 per cent," whatever that means?
...hearing people knock Father's Day as a cynical exercise in headlong mercantilism by greetings-card manufacturers and whisky distillers, as opposed to Mother's Day, which is a noble and wonderful event, a traditional celebration of the nurturing spirit and nothing to do with Terry's All Gold at all?
...listening to assurances that the UK is about to become "a smoke-free nation", rather than a nation of cowed and mutinous still-smokers undemocratically denied any choice about where they might pursue their noisome habit in public?
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a controversial political firebrand from the 1980s, has decided to take on the hip-hop industry, and insist it cleans up its lyrical act; he's fed up, he says, with their casual use of the N-word for black people and of terms that disparage women. So niggas, bitches and hoes are out. But what, pray, will the new-style songs sound like? "When I walk in the thoroughfare, all the persons of colour/ Admire my personal style and confess that without my unique contribution life would be duller/ My large firearm, costume jewellery and considerable record sales/ Drive the commercially minded and by-no-means virginal local girls into appreciative wails..."
Are bus drivers starting to lose their reputation as chivalrous knights of the road? A friend had an alarming experience travelling alone the other night. She caught a 171 bus from Holborn to Catford (clearly marked "Catford" on the front), and sat upstairs reading the paper. When still miles from home, the bus suddenly stopped in a dark street, and its lights were extinguished. She came downstairs, and said to the driver, "Why have you stopped here? This isn't Catford. Where are we?" The driver wasn't keen on explaining. "Get out the bus," he said, "and look what it says on the front." Apprehensively, my friend said, "You're not going to close the doors behind me and drive off, are you? You can't leave me here by myself..." Once again he intoned, "Get out the bus, and look what's on the front." She did so, and had just enough time to register that the destination-sign reading "Catford" had been wound on during the journey - before the driver closed the doors and drove off through the gates of a large and gloomy depot. Becoming even more apprehensive, she set off down a side alley and discovered she was in New Cross, one of the least salubrious regions of south London, perched between Peckham and Lewisham. It was midnight. She was a woman alone on the mean streets of SE14, abandoned to her fate by the driver...
She made it home, severely distressed. Is it too much to expect a driver to tell passengers he's going to change the route and that their journey home will be cut short? Is it absurd to expect a bus driver to display a basic protective instinct towards a solo lady passenger? Or would that never cross his mind?
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