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Nah, Richardsounds is much better

really? :confused: you may as well post on a topic about cornflakes and suggest they buy cheese instead.

That must be the reason for all the £2000 amps.

May want to change the title to Richer Sounds

Nah, Richardsounds is much better

Looks amazing, Richard always makes the best sounds. Bargain if your not skint after Christmas :smiley:

Great deal

Hot deal !! I'm going to get in ether tomorrow to try these out. Does anyone know if these can be used on their own to start with or do they need satellites to go with it? If they can be used in their own, what do you reckon the sound would be like?

Hi, thinking the same thing myself - a pair could make an interesting stereo set up.
Looks like Tannoy have discontinued these, hence the sudden price drop. Build quality should be very good.
Worth a go.

I feel obliged to say that this is a high end piece of kit and you need equipment to match, to get anything like the right level of performance. This sounds snobbish but to use this on the back of a £200 amplifier is a bit like putting economy unleaded into a formula one car - it will probably work, to an extent but chances are you would beat that combination using a high performance road car.

I was looking for a replacement centre speaker for a while for my Q ACOUSTICS
2050 setup. This should do a great fit to the existing setup.

How would you connect this to the amp? This speaker is fitted with 5 connections at the back - my current centre speaker only has two...

Is this currently the best speaker in the world right now?

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That must be the reason for all the £2000 amps.

They have lots of HDMI ports, fancy gimmicks, AirPlay, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi.
In terms of sound quality not much difference.
http://www.cnet.com/uk/topics/av-receivers/buying-guide/

Even though this is a great reduction, the RRP was obviously inflated. And how much would a decent set of matching speakers cost?

Just had a quick search on the site, and pair of Tannoy matching speakers (Precision) would set you back £399 (RRP £899). So for a 5.0 package you'd be spending £1100 (RRP £2800). My Yamaha All in One will do me fine thank you very much.

Looks nice but I think most people would be better off buying a decent subwoofer.

smugjoojoo - please go to to the beginners section on how to post A DEAL .

was just about to ask if these would go nicely with a telly. Then remembered my budget for a new telly is £300 so if I bought these no new telly. anyway I think the answer will be no as people are talking about needing a £2000 amp!

I love hi-fi posts: So many "experts" :sunglasses:

You can probably use this as a tv stand...

Put a hundred hifi fans in a room with them and they'll hear a hundred different things. There's no such thing as best in a world where fools pay £100's for a better mains cable, presumably to ensure all the spikes and noise on the mains reaches their sound kit better :wink:

Even if they were the best, they still have to be reasonably matched to at least the front pair or even the cloth eared should notice something's not right.

Well if it was £999 I'd want it to be the best.

Even then, It wouldn't be the most expensive centre and probably not the best sounding either :smiley:

Is this only a speaker or it has built-in 42 inch LCD for this price??? :disappointed:

**** to be precise.

very nice speakers

I see. So I guess you also spend £1K on digital cables and so on then, since you believe price is directly correlated to quality and vice versa. It must simplify your life, since you never have to read reviews of anything or research a purchase, you just pay for the quality you want. :smirk:

Would I notice any difference if I'd replaced the centre speaker of a Q Acoustics 3000 5.1 package with this centre speaker? In other words, would it be worth it?

I personally have Teufel speakers but tannoy make great stuff. Voted hot, great price

This is a corking deal. just be aware the the speaker for a centre is a monster, it's huge. Would have,went for this but getting the Dali Opticon centre after trailing that range against the precisions

Actually there are massive differences but it depends on the rest of your system- it's only as good as it's weakest link.

With encodes, once you get to a certain quality it's pretty much transparent.

Loudspeakers still have their own distinctive sound, frequency range, soundstage, etc.We're not talking 0's and 1's here.

I know I know, but once I start worrying about that, I start fretting about the rest of the equipment in the chain.

The best upgrades are speakers and room conditioning. I know what you mean though.

For people who aren't sure, this speaker (singular) is designed to work with a 5.1 (or 7.1 etc) surround sound setup. This is a dedicated centre channel speaker not intended to be used on its own, ie it's not like a soundbar. :smiley:

For anyone considering buying this, first make sure that it will fit under the TV !
For some reason the makers of TV stands / cabinets don't seem to want to make anything that will accommodate a large centre speaker.
With this one, it appears the top is curved so the TV can't be stood on top of it.

That might be the reason why it's being sold off cheap !

Ive got the tannoy eyris centre which has 5 posts, just connect to the + and - with normal half decent speaker cable, leave the bottom one unconnected if your amp hasn't a earth (mine hasn't).

Fantastic buy, I've a pair of DC6 floor mounts as my main hifi speakers, and the matching bookshelf ones in the box ready for when the man cave get's finished. Tannoy's DC drivers are some of the best I've heard at prices the average working person could afford.

I've debated going back to a moderately hi end home cinema set up again, but after investing heavily in the early days of Dolby Digital, for me, it's just not worth it. I very much appreciate the better quality a good well thought out system brings to Music (even Spotify has it's place here!), but it never hit the spot for me with movie soundtracks and for anything else it was a complete waste (sports, tv etc). Ymmv of course, but if I do multi-channel again it will be with a system based on reasonable AV amp and discreet speaker package like the Q2000's.

You got something against cheese ? :wink: Merely stating that you're better off buying a better subwoofer than upgrading from a reasonable centre speaker to this. It's more worth while off cutting off bass at 75Hz on a centre and diverting it to the sub.

Cheap chinese make, it was never £999.

You can get a much better Sony for £299, proven audio quality.

The centre speaker is the main speaker in 5.1 system, however the whole system needs to be evenly matched, your system is only as good as your weakest component.

For music a centre speaker is pretty pointless, most of it's stereo and your amp is making up the other channels, invariably badly.

I love cheese but if I have it for breakfast it spoils my day, some would say cornflakes do the same but err, let's move on :wink: I don't do the lottery but if I did, and won, I'd ask my neighbour to sell their house to me, so I can buy a better subwoofer :smirk:

Read the spec of these and some of the things quoted are pretty strange. Ok, main speakers quote 29Hz due to the 'Twin auxcillary bass radiators' which is just a passive radiator or a speaker without a driver but no mention of the dB audio level at that frequency. Also wtf is Auxcillary is it like Auxiliary ?
http://www.monitoraudio.co.uk/company/technology/abr <= checked with Monitor Audio and they use Auxiliary :confused:

Joking aside it looks like a real good deal at face value due to the massive discounts but why are they so cheap ?

Well they are cheap if you consider the RRP price. For 1400 you can buy Dali Zensor 5 5.1 if you are lucky Dali Zensor 7 5.1 which includes great subwoofer while Tannoy does not. On top of that you need a really good amplifier to run them. I would say this is a very realistic price. They looks awesome for the price i never had chance to hear them playing thou.

Too much. I bought 4x Q acoustics 1030s,1x Q acoustics 1000c and a B.K. Electronics XLS200-DF for £625 which is more than enough for a sitting room :smiley: For that price I could get a couple of these Link

For some, a soundbar is. It's a personal thing :smiley:

Never under stood why people love sound bars as most are just stereo speakers with no centre :smiley:

Maybe they just don't know. Marketing can be very deceiving :stuck_out_tongue:

Why waste your money on this dudes?

Last week i had for £400 at richer sounds

Pair of Tannoy V4I floor standers - for the fronts
Tannoy VCI centre - centre
Tannoy v4i's big book shelf speakers. - rears

Pair of nice stands for the rears

And 20 metres of speaker cable all for £400.



Basically the above, minus the sub all in for £400 including stands for the rears

Seems like overpriced stuff to be honest.

I had an absolute bargain with the Tannoy stuff. unlike this

Plasma, if you happy with your kit that's good, as someone said early in the thread hifi can be addictive, generaly the more you pay the better the quality, but 4 times the cost doesnt mean 4 times better.

​Diminished returns ?

What's the optimal setup, does it even exist? The absolute most borderline of diminishing return per cost. I've always thought speakers are a personal thing. It's not just the biggest or deepest that make them but the whole package. Not just volume or bass, but clarity, soundstage, power requirements, appearance/size, cost.

I'm sure a lot of people would say that what you or he bought was expensive and not worth it, including AV, etc, but you wouldn't agree with them. I guess you could say the same for an even more expensive setup. I know there will a point of diminishing returns but where does it start, and what are the parameters for it, as a soundbar and a sub can produce sound and bass, or the Wharfedale DX1 if you go the AV route with discrete surround sound. I guess you'd have to demo a lot of speakers to work that out :smiley:

All I'm saying, in my opinion, is that you shouldn't say a product is a waste of money just because you can get another cheaper.

I must contest this statement due to the challenge even if I'm wrong :wink: lol. The idea of Hifi to produce the best amplified accurate audio representation of the original signal with as small as possible distortion. Obviously we all have dodgy hearing at some frequencies so we adjust the sound to compensate for this frequency loss and also add on to this the fact most people prefer positive distortion i.e. tube amp/record enthusiasts but I digress.

This is a centre speaker so It's not a something stereo audiophile or a 5.1 music audiophile would choose due to it being a centre in the 1st place :smiley: SACD/DVD-Audio setups normally require matched front speakers so the centre is same type of speaker as the two fronts. See Link plus it's at the wrong height :smiley:

Therefore it's aimed towards Film/TV where it's mostly used for lead vocals and some sound effects. A bit of a overkill just to hear such a narrow audio band. So with statistics that I've made up in my head on the fly that state the ratio of cost per performance I provide my argument :smiley: I give no workings out though as this would probably prove the downfall of this statement.

I wasn't really talking about center speakers, more like speakers in general. If my budget was £400 i definitely would prefer what they posted instead of just a center :smile:

I'm not sure what you mean by "This is a centre speaker so It's not a something stereo audiophile or a 5.1 music audiophile would choose due to it being a centre in the 1st place"

I don't understand what I meant either to honest :smiley: Only got 3 hours worth of sleep due to nightshift lol :wink:
Joking aside I think a lot of these speakers are very over priced as they drop like bricks when they are trying to shift them. Unless you're trying to hit subwoofer frequencies then you don't need to pay that much out. It's mostly the sub 50Hz frequencies that bump up the price of a good pair of speakers and unless you're using the speakers in a PA system or live in a mansion you don't need 180 watt rms speakers as you're probably only going to run them up to 60 watt rms maximum. The main consumption of watts is when you're driving large drivers slowly, i.e. the bigger surface of air you're pushing the more power you need. Little treble/tweeter speakers hardly use any power and as for the electronics in the crossovers it's not like they cost a fortune.

I'm curious about who would buy these speakers for £11.7k

Heat....

i think my Tannoy speakers deal i've pasted above along with picture is winning this thread tbh

Plasma, yours is a budget set of speakers, whilst its better than some of the packaged systems its still budget kit, what amp have you got it paired to?
Your system would be blown away by a tannoy precision setup with a very good Av amp.

Tannoy Dual Concentric gear is VERY nice. Think I'd be looking for the older, made in Britain gear if it was my choice (Tannoy D750C) but at £300, certainly a bargain. IIRC centre speakers always tend to get reduced quite heavily- Hyperfi are well known for knocking out massively reduced Celestion, Tannoy and Kef centre speakers. My guessing is that centre speakers are harder to shift, therefore the manufacturer has a backlog and needs to get them out of the warehouse much more quickly.

It's low-end, fairly cheap, so you could say budget. The AV seems underpowered for your speakers too.

Plasma , what are v4i book shelf speakers? I can't find them, I presume you mean vri's or v1i's, rs have your speaker setup for about £280 to £310 or so, so not such a good deal for £400, rs always overcharge for cables that's why I never buy mine from there.
Your kit is still fairly budget especially centre and rears, ask tannoy to compare your centre speaker with the OP and they will say there is no contest I'm afraid.

Why not post your deal and see how hot it gets? Let the public decide?

Plasma, Post your deal?, see if it gets hotter, they still have stock at RS.
Your comparing apples with oranges, for some your deal will be good for others who want better quality it won't, I don't own any of the components either from your system or the op's, however my speakers in my 5.1 are older model tannoy's except the sub which is a miller and kreisel. if i was in the market for a new centre speaker i would definately audition the 6c rather than the vci as 6c would likely be a slight upgrade to my tannoy eyris centre.

Only a wee left, none for mail order. I managed to bag one and picking it up tomorrow

Bi-wire :confused:

Yeah - my yahama Av-Amp only has two binding posts for the Centre Speaker, so I use two sets of speaker cable, wrapping them together at the amp end and splitting them out at the Speaker.

It separates High and low frequencies.

I bi-amp my fronts using my rear surrounds as the amp allows for that,

How are users getting on with this monster centre speaker?

You have the same projector screen as me.

I'd be interested to know your setup?

I also bought one. ✌

1. Optima HD200X PJ + screen
2. Pioneer 436 Plasma
3. Yahama A840 Am Receiver
4. Tannoy 613 Fronts
5. Tannoy 611 Rears
6. Tannoy 6C centre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. REL Q100E sub
8. Amazon Fire
9. WDTV
10. Sony Blu Ray
11. XBOX 360
12. Alphason 1250 cabinets x 2 - superb BTW!!

I have a Rel Strata5, superb and transformed my system.

I now have the 5c centre and will update the front and rears as money allows.

Projector, I have an infocus IN80eu on 120" and for everyday viewing a Pioneer Kuro 5090 through Pioneer amp and blu-Ray (models elude me right now).