And? How has [the MUSIC group, i.e. Behringer, acquisition] affected Tannoy? More resources and building on their creds or otherwise? No guesses please.
I've been keeping up because I have a soft spot for Tannoy. I don't know what this background information means and don't have an opinion one way or the other, but here it is.
Prior to the Behringer acquisition, Tannoy designed an all new Dual Concentric coax, Omnimagnet, and
obtained a patent for it.
Omnimagnet replaced Tannoy's previous coax design, Tulip, which dates from the 1990s. The System 600 Amir tested here had a Tulip coax. Here's a figure I made for my
Revolution XT 8F review that summarizes the differences between Omnimagnet, Tulip, as well as Tannoy's original "Pepperpot" Dual Concentric.
Ca. 2015 Tannoy introduced an Omnimagnet-based hifi speaker series ("Revolution XT") and CI (in wall, in ceiling, outdoor) lines. Based on my measurements of an older but refurbished (which mostly means ferrofluid residue was cleaned out out of the tweeter gap and new fluid added) 8" Tulip studio monitor, 8" Omnimagnet had wider midrange dispersion. That can be seen in the comparative polars in my review. Tannoy's website does not list any Omnimagnet hifi, in wall, or outdoor models as current. Only the ceiling speakers (CMS _03DC) remain. Tannoy even appear to have reintroduced their Tulip in wall and outdoor lines. For home hifi Tannoy are down to a series that looks like Q Acoustics clones, some active Tulip speakers that may be holdovers from the 1990s, and a Klipsch-style nostalgia series.
The new "Gold Monitor" series also returns to Tulip, and even has a cutaway of Tulip as artwork along with the old fashioned Tannoy logo. Monitor Gold 7 is the closest modern equivalent to the tested System 600.
For further background, some of Tannoy's engineering staff left after the Behringer acquisition. Omnimagnet's named inventor is elsewhere. Tannoy's former head R&D executive, Dr. Paul Mills and others left to found Fyne Audio, where they developed their own new "IsoFlare" coax. IsoFlare is substantially Tannoy Tulip, but simplified: radial vanes molded into the walls to replace the intermediate tube in the phase plug.
No, the forum members rely on what you demonstrate and what you measure. Or what you choose not to measure.
That is a serious, and inaccurate accusation. The way this place works is, members send Amir random stuff, and he also buys a lot of stuff. What he buys is up to him and out of the scope of the question. But unless you have evidence that Amir has chosen not to test something that someone sent in a manner that introduces a question of bias into the proceeding, if you understand the implications of what you wrote you should probably delete your account.
I don't know what you have sent him. I expect nothing, for reasonable logitstical reasons. I sent Amir a box of random electronics to measure, and all of it was posted. One of the items did not measure especially well, but was something his company deploys for practical reasons. I inquired prior to sending if he wanted to measure those items due to the potential appearance of conflict of interest, but to his credit he said yes, and posted warts and all results.
Imo Sennheiser did a huge disservice to AKG when they bought it and that is a German company. It is not an Asian thing- it's a business thing.
Harman, not Sennheser, purchased AKG.
