Tannoy xt 8f or dynaudio emit 50

[pererpan]

I listen to a lot of symphonic metal and rock. Mostly not good recorded. I like a somewhat warmer sound and hate sharp shrill highes what hurt my ears. Amp musical Fidelity m5si.
Tannoy or dynaudio

 

[avanti1960]

Dynaudios by a wide margin. I heard the Tannoys and the treble was crispy and distorted- most likely because of the difficult transition between a 10" woofer and coincident tweeter.

 

[USER]

The concentric driver used in that Tannoy line is garbage. I used to own the XT6F and the Amir's measurement of the driver makes sense with respect to what I heard. See the review for the XT6. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/.../tannoy-revolution-xt-6-speaker-review.14662/

So if it is between those two speakers, I'd agree with the above. Dynaudio for sure. But I would say if you are in the U.S. you can do equal or better for less as Dynaudio is overpriced here. Make sure you spend some time on the speaker reviews on this site.

 

[pererpan]

Ik have bought the dynaudio emit 50. The tannoy xt 8f has fantastic bass and Soundstage but indeed the highs are horrible. Too Bright and Sharp. I am living in the Netherlands and could buy the emit 50 for a very good price.

 

[Head_Unit]

I like a somewhat warmer sound and hate sharp shrill highes what hurt my ears...Tannoy or dynaudio

Wharfedale ha ha. Ah, we listened to a lot of $2k/pair speakers about 2 years ago. Dynaudio I respect tremendously for continuously hewing to an ideal of clean transient reproduction. Fine stuff. KEF we felt about on par. Revel somewhat better. Wharfedale Linton Heritage, ah how nice! Lovely sound throughout Audio Element's open plan shop. Monitor Audio Silver 300 also great, the only non-horn speaker I've heard at less than insane prices that would let you really crank hard rock and metal (I listened to Iron Maiden's entire Piece Of Mind and some live Motorhead). I really want to hear the MA Silver 500 7G after the positive review in Stereophile.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-500-7g-loudspeaker
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-300-loudspeaker
https://www.stereophile.com/content/wharfedale-linton-heritage-loudspeaker
We got these, even better sounding, though can't crank quite as much as the Silver 500
https://www.stereophile.com/content/focal-aria-936-loudspeaker

 

[jhaider]

The concentric driver used in that Tannoy line is garbage. I used to own the XT6F and the Amir's measurement of the driver makes sense with respect to what I heard. See the review for the XT6. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/.../tannoy-revolution-xt-6-speaker-review.14662/

That's not really fair. No doubt, XT6 has some treble voicing issues exposed by Amir's measurements. (I have not heard the speaker, but have no reason not to expect Amir's DUT to be a representative sample.) However, that's largely a crossover voicing thing and not a driver thing. XT8F is the same driver design scaled up a size, and voiced much better (see my review and measurements). True, their ring radiator tweeter generally does seem to peter out a little early, rolling off earlier than 20kHz and with resonances in the top octave generally. So in that sense Tannoy's ring radiator/phase plug design is several generations behind BMS or JBL. But "garbage" is rather harsh for that flaw.

 

[pererpan]

The dynaudio are back to the dealer. No fun and i find it is not for symphonic metal.
Then maybe the tannoy xt8f. Yes, can sound bright, but that fantastic bass and Soundstage! If it is live.
But there is also the monitor audio silver 500 6g.

 

[pererpan]

Wharfedale ha ha. Ah, we listened to a lot of $2k/pair speakers about 2 years ago. Dynaudio I respect tremendously for continuously hewing to an ideal of clean transient reproduction. Fine stuff. KEF we felt about on par. Revel somewhat better. Wharfedale Linton Heritage, ah how nice! Lovely sound throughout Audio Element's open plan shop. Monitor Audio Silver 300 also great, the only non-horn speaker I've heard at less than insane prices that would let you really crank hard rock and metal (I listened to Iron Maiden's entire Piece Of Mind and some live Motorhead). I really want to hear the MA Silver 500 7G after the positive review in Stereophile.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-500-7g-loudspeaker
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-300-loudspeaker
https://www.stereophile.com/content/wharfedale-linton-heritage-loudspeaker
We got these, even better sounding, though can't crank quite as much as the Silver 500
https://www.stereophile.com/content/focal-aria-936-loudspeaker

A friend had the MA Silver 300 and sell it. Highs are too bright. He said when play a track from ACDC it hurt his ears.

 

[pererpan]

Maybe Polk R700?

 

[Darkscience]

Raises Hand. Quick Question - What have you heard your music on in the past that you liked? Car Stereo? Headphone only? I ask because we can help better. Has your music ever sounded good to you on any system, and if so, can you recall what the speakers where?

I have an idea of what your troubles are but believe you may not understand fully what you really need. For example for your style of listening, you might want to consider pairing your speakers with a preamp that has a tone control to get rid of the brightness your perceiving.

Metal is tricky because you might just be conditioned to listening on less revealing systems, and so hearing all the true highs in the music bothers you. Anyway, if you can list a couple songs, I would love to try them out on my system out of curiosity, (not to try to sell you on what I got). I love Metal like you do, not sure if the same type, but I listen to a lot of poorly recorded Black Metal.

 

[Head_Unit]

A friend had the MA Silver 300 and sell it. Highs are too bright. He said when play a track from ACDC it hurt his ears.

That was not my experience but Upscale had the speakers in the middle of a large, damped room = much less reflection/reverb. If your friend had especially a somewhat bright room then yeah that could turn out differently. I was just really shocked that the speakers themselves didn't turn into a distortion mess playing heavy metal (though I did not try AC/DC at that time. Hey which track(s) hurt his ears? Some of that discography-Flick Of The Switch for instance-are not helping nice audio reproduction.)

 

[pererpan]

Which track i don't know. He only told me of MA silver 300 with ACDC. Don't know about the Silver 500. A reviewer on Youtube says shouty speakers. I have no small room but it is in L-form and listen in the small apart from my toom. Speakers can only max. 35 cm from the walls.

For now i think about a Kef R5, fyne audio f502 or Polk R700. But it is difficult. Or the new JBL 4309?