In Reply to: RE: High efficiency speaker with great reproduction of speech posted by b.l.zeebub on April 9, 2014 at 02:55:41:
>>> I know who have experience with both Altec co-axials and Tannoy DCs do give Tannoy the edge overall. <<<Performance of the Altecs - and their more modern/ resolved GPA descendants - is rather (very!) crossover and cabinet dependant. The commonly used classical alignments and crossovers are easily bettered.
Personally, there are few Tannoy DC I would consider using over a well-implemented GPA-604, and those are very, very expensive.
As an aside, speaker alignments are not my bag, but it seems that low Q drivers are less forgiving of imperfect alignments than mid - high Q drivers (but I could be way off on that point). The GPA-604 is a low Q speaker; Tannoys are generally mid Q speakers.
Cheers.
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