David Houpt wrote:
Hi Ian

I am not claiming anything, simply expressing an opinion. You somehow
seem to think that because it differs from yours it is somehow worth less.

Well, for what its worth I agree with you, but then we are the same
age. so maybe our hearing is up the shoot!

Still for my sixpenny worth, I have never heard a speaker that matches
the soundstage of big Tannoys. That's why I shelled out my hard earned
on a pair of Tannoy Yorks recently.

Maybe the voices 'honk' but I don't hear that!

Regards

David

Maybe that's the reason. We both heard Tannoys so much our hearing is
damaged in the 'honk' region' so we don't hear it. That said I don't
ever remember hearing it in the first place. I'll admit the little 12
inch Golds I have now do 'honk' but that's the crappy small cabinets
they are in - another project.

I remember testing my hearing back in the 70 and I could hear up to near
20KHz. Today it drops like a stone from 12KHz.

Cheers

ian

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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It occurred to me when fitting some new car speakers that
a dual concentric design would be ideal for this use. But
they all seem to have tweeters just stuck on the front.
Any reason why this design has fallen out of favour?

A true dual concentric design like Tannoy's requires special parts and
tooling.

Depth is a big issue for autosound speakers, and true dual concentrics add
depth.

The tweeter of a typically-sized dual concentric driver - say 5 or 6 inches
in diameter, would be very tiny.

As others have pointed out, the KEF Q-series driver while truely coaxial, is
not built like a traditional dual concentric system. AFAIK, the tweeter is
not a compression driver.

http://www.kef.com/France/qseries/driver.htm shows a cut-away drawing.

I believe that there are standard minature dome tweeters that would fit in
front of the woofer pole-piece and within the diameter of the woofer voice
coil.

"David Houpt" wrote in message
...

Hi Ian

I am not claiming anything, simply expressing an opinion. You somehow
seem to think that because it differs from yours it is somehow worth less.

Well, for what its worth I agree with you, but then we are the same
age. so maybe our hearing is up the shoot!

Still for my sixpenny worth, I have never heard a speaker that matches
the soundstage of big Tannoys. That's why I shelled out my hard earned
on a pair of Tannoy Yorks recently.

Maybe the voices 'honk' but I don't hear that!



The one bugbear with my Lowthers is that male voices on the radio can/do
sound 'honky' - everything else is sublime!!