Hello Brian,

I have top posted for you. Hope that is OK.

Speakers are so much matter of taste.
I have a pair of Tannoy Lancasters which I
listen to daily. They please me as much now
as the day I took them home. I also have some
large Kef (ex BBC monitors) and a pair of B+Ws
They all sound very good, but very very different:-)

When I was at Decca, Tannoy Lancasters
(and a few pairs of Canterburys) were the standard
monitor throughout the whole facility, studios, mixing
suites, cutting rooms, editing and copy suites. Thousands
of very fine recording were made on Tannoys.

We made a direct to disc recording for Peter
Walker, using Tannoy monitors. Even he admitted
they were "rather pleasing"

I have never heard anyone describe them at metallic.

Iain


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Its a bit like Tannoy dual concentrics. I still use a pair, but i would
most certainly not call them uncoloured, but I happen to like the sound
myself. People tell me they sound metallic.
Brian

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I am reminded of the advertising campaign used by JBL for
several years where they claimed that since the majority of US pop/jazz
music studios
used JBL monitors in their for control rooms - it was only
logical to use JBL brand speakers in your home, in order to hear the
sound as the engineers intended.

Yes I remember that too. Clever advertising, and
by all accounts successful. A lot of people bought
the JBL Century 100's for home use.

The UK record company where I worked
had a monster pair of JBLs in studio II.
They were put up only when a client (usually
American) specifically asked for them.

The canteen also bought in Budweiser beer.
There is no accounting for taste:-)

Iain