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Topic: TANNOY GOLD
Posted By: Tweeter_Box
Subject: TANNOY GOLD
Date Posted: 02 October 2020 at 1:26pm
Recently aquired these beautiful coax 15" drivers and crossovers
Unfortunatly one requires a recone, have had a quick look online and not alot available 
Can anyone here point me in the right direction?




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Posted By: Tweeter_Box
Date Posted: 02 October 2020 at 1:53pm


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Posted By: Tweeter_Box
Date Posted: 02 October 2020 at 1:54pm
https://imgur.com/a/Cpgrs8Z" rel="nofollow - https://imgur.com/a/Cpgrs8Z

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Posted By: Tweeter_Box
Date Posted: 02 October 2020 at 1:56pm
forgotten how you post pixs on here Tongue

so uploaded pics to my FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=PurpleAudioRecords&set=a.1947550018716555


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Posted By: csg
Date Posted: 02 October 2020 at 2:23pm
Lockwood audio in Pinner.

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Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 03 October 2020 at 11:03am
Are those actually Tannoy gold's, or the later HPD?

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Posted By: csg
Date Posted: 03 October 2020 at 11:33am
Im not on Facebook but a sneaky look tells me that these are wildcat era drivers, not monitor golds im afraid. HPD’s would normally have re-enforcing “segments” of cardboard glued to the rear of the cone, these were missing from all the wildcat drivers i ever saw.

Nice drivers, but nothing like the value of monitor golds, a re-cones are probably beyond the value of a working driver, particularly as any hifi buffs that are interested would want a pair with the same age cone/coil.


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Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 03 October 2020 at 12:14pm
These are monitor golds, same era as wildcat. Tannoy Gold and/or monitor gold is a range of drivers spanning 40 years or so. 

Hans Hilberink's site is the place to go regarding everything about tannoys history and specs. 
https://www.hilberink.nl/codehans/tannoy52.htm" rel="nofollow - https://www.hilberink.nl/codehans/tannoy52.htm


Posted By: madboffin
Date Posted: 03 October 2020 at 8:58pm
They aren't what most people would refer to as "Monitor Golds", i.e. the classic Tannoy drivers dating from before the 1980's. Too modern...

I used to have a pair of HPD385's in big cabinets. Exceptionally efficient and with a very coherent "point source" sound, but I always thought the top end was a bit ragged. Which of course it was - there are always compromises to be made in product design.

The development of soft domes has driven coaxials out of the pro monitoring market since those days, but the classics are still very sought after by vintage hi-fi aficiaonados.

And of course there are some amazingly good wedge monitors using coaxial drive units, although not made by Tannoy.





Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 05 October 2020 at 10:22am
Tannoy seemed to paint most of their later drivers that gold colour,i have even seen a pair of their late PA 'gold' bass drivers advertised as 'Monitor golds' by chancers who come across something at boot sale, do a quick price search for Tannoy Golds,and then think have won the lottery. LOL


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Posted By: Tweeter_Box
Date Posted: 09 October 2020 at 1:07pm
for flip sake, how do i embed pics again?

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Posted By: Tweeter_Box
Date Posted: 09 October 2020 at 1:08pm
Originally posted by csg csg wrote:

Lockwood audio in Pinner.

thanks chriss will look em up 


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Posted By: jammin75
Date Posted: 09 October 2020 at 1:22pm

Smile


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Posted By: Xoc1
Date Posted: 23 October 2020 at 8:47pm
These Tannoy drivers could be serviced by Lockwood Audio
http://www.lockwoodaudio.co.uk/tannoy.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.lockwoodaudio.co.uk/tannoy.htm
But it isn't going to be cheap. Cos they were never cheap...
Is there no ID on a band around the magnet?
 should be a Tannoy 38xx
3805 is a PA puma driver. But most people seem to want about £1K+ or so for a set of Pumas,
3809 is Studio monitor / Hi fi -& object of desire.
Only found one pair of  3809 on ebay and they want £10K for them. Which maybe is a bit extreme but Then again I think the cheapest new Tannoy 15" boxes I could find in a quick web search are £4.5K

If I was you I would get them rebuilt, stick them in BIG boxes and put them in your front room.
If you can get away with it. - Not WAF friendly, Untill they hear them at least!

I have an actual pair of Tannoy Monitor Golds (1974) with the Alinco magnets that are in HPD Berkeley cabinets - (Which at 100 litres are barely big enough to get them to work.
They originally cost me £30 a long time ago,and took a lot of work to restore & get up to spec.  :-)




Posted By: 4D
Date Posted: 24 October 2020 at 3:00pm
Originally posted by Tweeter_Box Tweeter_Box wrote:

for flip sake, how do i embed pics again?


embedding  pix type the following

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replacing the two hash signs with a forward slash as per the last argument..



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Posted By: 4D
Date Posted: 24 October 2020 at 4:02pm
Originally posted by 4D 4D wrote:

Originally posted by Tweeter_Box Tweeter_Box wrote:

for flip sake, how do i embed pics again?


embedding  pix type the following

#img#full url of image[/img]

replacing the two hash signs with a forward slash as per the last argument..


Doh.. replacing the hash signs with square brackets 


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DMZ. "The bass was intense. Girls were literally running up to stand next to the subs"


Posted By: Zeno
Date Posted: 24 October 2020 at 9:41pm
Also think it is a K3808 chassis. I know this one compared to the Monitor Gold and would say that it sounds just as good. Maybe even a bit better since the K3808's diaphragm is very light. However, this has a disadvantage which can be seen on the picture of jammin75. The membrane has, if you look closely, a break near the sourround. That happened with mine as well. And all around. At least that is my experience. On the picture, where the two GRF corner horns are on top of each other, the Gold Monitor is in the upper one and the K3808 in the lower one. We had built 4 GRFs for our festivals. An incredible sound for that time. And still today :-).





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