Price Paid:  $500.00 from cph

Summary:
I had these home for a trial period but returned them after a copule of days
Huamn voices seemed to harsh
I could not hear the supertweeter

Strengths:
price - better than similar priced products

Weaknesses:
build quality

Similar Products Used:
many

Belgarchi

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
4.72 of 5, 18.00 votes

Price Paid:  $500.00 from Audiogon

Summary:
- Look: I don't like it
- Practical Aspect: can be easily placed thanks to coincident technology and front port, but the terminals are non-standart and the super-tweeter on top is a pain.
- Technology: enclosure could be thicker, but the drivers and the crossover are very, very well built. I cannot hear anything from the super-tweeter (at age 45)
- Sound: very good in all areas, exceptional to reproduce human voice, and exceptionally stable stereo image (coincident drivers). No weakness !

Subjectively, I rate their sound mid-way between JM Lab Cobalt 806 ($1000) and B&W N805 ($2000).

Strengths:
Sound / Price ; Original technology ; Stable soundstage

Weaknesses:
Thin enclosures, Look

Similar Products Used:
Many, many speakers

Price Paid:  $500.00 from Audiogon

Summary:
- Look: I don't like it
- Practical Aspect: can be easily placed thanks to coincident technology and front port, but the terminals are non-standart and the super-tweeter on top is a pain.
- Technology: enclosure could be thicker, but the drivers and the crossover are very, very well built. I cannot hear anything from the super-tweeter (at age 45)
- Sound: very good in all areas, exceptional to reproduce human voice, and exceptionally stable stereo image (coincident drivers). No weakness !

Subjectively, I rate their sound mid-way between JM Lab Cobalt 806 ($1000) and B&W N805 ($2000).

Strengths:
Stability of soundstage, original technology

Weaknesses:
Look, thin enclosure

Similar Products Used:
Many, many speakers

Price Paid:  $500.00 from Audiogon

Summary:
Negative first: I don't like the look, and the enclosure could be thicker.
The super-tweeter is practically inaudible (but I am 45...).
Everything else is great: high-quality coincident driver and crossover, superb sound.
The sound is dynamic, alive, neutral, detailed, with deep bass (taling into account its size).
Compared to JM Lab Cobalt 806, the sound is less fatiguing.
Compared to B&W Nautilus 805, the Tannoy is a little bit less refined (less details, more boxy), but voices are more natural (the B&W lack a little bit presence).
And what is extraordinary is the immunity to listener position. The stereo image is rock-solid, probably thanks to the coincident technology used.
The best speakers under $1,500 I ever heard.

Strengths:
Image stability, neutral, detailed, dynamic sound, good bass

Weaknesses:
Slightly boxy, look

Similar Products Used:
Many speakers from JM Lab, B&W, NHT, Meadowlark, Paradigm, Polk Audio, etc.

Price Paid:  $769.00

Summary:
Definition and clarity, well articulated, and detail and great stereo imaging is what these speakers are all about. Listening mostly to acoustic and classical music, they have widespread steroe image yet focused. The bass isn't so deep, but it's a bookshelf speaker. The only thing that bothers me is the "web-cam" lookalike tweeter on the top which renders them impossible as "bookshelf" speaker. They more suited to floor stands.

It is crucial to not use the optional port baffles that you can stuff inside the open bass ports. It might tighten up the bass, but actually has side eftect and artifacts on the other acoustical elements. And boy it can play loud. However, they're a tad on the heavy driven side (87 db) so you better have some thick wires as well as some hefty amp that drives them.

The most benefit I get from them, is that they have a very wide "sweet listening spot". You don't have to have you ears smack dab in the middle and in between anything. They have a clear stereo image and you can be far off axis and yet hear both speakers equally. Of course very neutral in sound, and you don't get fatigued from listening to them all day long. Design, finish and such are the best you can get from Tannoy. What I have to come to like is the hiding of the trademark on the front by speaker grille. Definitely a WAF!

In this price range, there are a lot of tough knifes edge competition going around, especially companies such as Monitor Audio and similar. But I think Tannoy Sensys DC1 are up there with the best of them. I've even heard that B&W has been waning off a bit, especially since they cater to audiophile for most of they time, and doesn't spend as much effort in developing mid price and small speakers, that sounds great.

My friends thinks that I have a subwoofer hidden somewhere in my living room, when I - rarely - put on some high tech contemporary dance music, and modern sounds. They definitely have more deep bass than their looks. On audiophile recordings they reveal any detail, and you can almost HEAR the beard growing of a male singer as well...I had to borrow a DVD audio eqipment from my audiophile friend, and lo and behold, I could here more "open spaces" especially reverb tails of a church and so on. I do not use bi-wiring or bi-amping yet. Wouldn't dare to think what that would sound like.

Definitely worth their price, but there are so many - if not too many -in this price range around at the moment, and you can only run around and test everything there is, until your ears turn blue.