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RE: Cabinet for Tannoy 12"

Posted by blinx7 (A) on June 22, 2014 at 09:05:46

In Reply to: Cabinet for Tannoy 12" posted by andrenel on June 13, 2014 at 03:27:59:

Hi

This will sound like it begs the question, but having been there, I think it's worth saying.

When I built cabs for Tannoy 12" Monitor Golds my thought about cabinet shape was like yours, and many people have the same thought. Couldn't the newly made enclosures be a more modern profile, a tall narrow sort of design that fits with a modern listening room look ? More like modern 'column' speakers ? Why do they have to be wide-baffle boxes ?

Well, because a 12" wide dispersion dual concentric is meant to have a significant baffle surround; I'm not an authority on wave-launch etc, but the Tannoy people were, and they tended toward just that-- a significantly wide baffle on a large box.

Having tried it, I don't think the limited perceived benefit is worth trying to retrofit a design that uses a wide-profile box (browse the leaflet online for the Tannoy Prestige Series of today and note the profiles) and then trying to diagnose and remedy the side effects. Large drivers like the monitor golds need space behind the baffle as well; no internal speaker wall should be a mere couple of inches from the rear of the cone--- or they easily become boomy and blurred in the lower mids & bass.

Just saying it's been tried, by many, and it can be done, but it's a squeeze and a compromise. Why not suit the driver design instead ?

Look at the DeVore and Harbeth lines for the kind of wide baffle cabinets that look classic, and still allow the driver to do as it was designed to do. Your call of course.

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