Tannoy S8 Floorstanding Speakers Reviews

Mike Boniface

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
3.00 of 5, 2.00 votes

Price Paid:  $500.00 from N.O.S. from high end

Summary:
I started to put together a 2 channel system around a McIntosh MC7270 that I found for pretty cheap and stumbled upon these speakers.

A friend I work with also does high end stereo/HT installs on the side. He said he had a pair of these and a S8C all NIB on his shelf collecting dust and would part with them for $500. How could I say no?

First impression wasn't much of a good one. They need a long break in, at least 20 hours to sound decent, and appear to be fully broken in around 100.

Once broken in, they will incredible. Very clear and neutral, tight and accurate bass, excellent sound stage. Unless it's a upgrade to the S10, I don't see myself getting rid of these anytime soon, they're keepers!

Strengths:
Very clear and neutral, plenty of tight and accurate bass, excellent sound stage/imaging. Digs deeper than expected.

Weaknesses:
Can be timid at lower volumes. Also can be bright depending on other components used.

Similar Products Used:
McIntosh, Infinity, Triad

Price Paid:  $500.00 from N.O.S. from high end

Summary:
I started to put together a 2 channel system around a McIntosh MC7270 that I found for pretty cheap and stumbled upon these speakers.

A friend I work with also does high end stereo/HT installs on the side. He said he had a pair of these and a S8C all NIB on his shelf collecting dust and would part with them for $500. How could I say no?

First impression wasn't much of a good one. They need a long break in, at least 20 hours to sound decent, and appear to be fully broken in around 100.

Once broken in, they will incredible. Very clear and neutral, tight and accurate bass, excellent sound stage. Unless it's a upgrade to the S10, I don't see myself getting rid of these anytime soon, they're keepers!

Strengths:
Very clear and neutral, plenty of tight and accurate bass, excellent sound stage/imaging. Digs deeper than expected.

Weaknesses:
Can be timid at lower volumes. Also can be bright depending on other components used.

Similar Products Used:
McIntosh, Infinity, Triad

alan

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5, 4.00 votes

Price Paid:  $730.00 from eBay

Summary:
Great speakers for the price I got them at. I used them for my HT and music listening and sound really well. Great deep bass with its 8" driver and really clean sound. I can even watch moives without a sub and still have great bass. Even tho I'm just using a HT receiver, still sound really well for music. I bet it can sound much better and warmer on tube amps.

Strengths:
Clean mid range, great deep bass of 30Hz and clean high vocal sound. Great for music and HT. Can go really loud or low volume (-36db) and have nice clean sound.

Weaknesses:
Look without cover and size might be a problem.

Similar Products Used:
Kinima Hi-G2 *really good sounding Canadian made speakers but non famous. went bankrupt couple years ago tho :(

travk13

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $675.00 from ebay

Summary:
beautiful!!!!!!! greatest sound ever .. .. vocals imaging wow.. for the $ nothing comes close .. must .. bi wire .. i use a adcom 545 and wow .. amzing .. since grabbing a set of mx1 m bookshelves i thought tannoy was worth giving a shot .. oh wow .. they were awesome then grabbed a dc06 center channel .and was tickled pink no goin dc tannoy s all around in one of my main listening rooms .... tannoy has given me something ive searched for years .. at a reasonable cost..

Strengths:
image .. none critical positioning .. full range vocals ..

Weaknesses:
looks .. kinda bland..

Similar Products Used:
klipsch forte .. paradigm studio... kef.. nht ..

Price Paid:  $1100.00 from Edmonton

Summary:
Thought I should write a review of these speakers. I just wrote one for Nuance so I thought I should up my karma and write a nice one. I was looking for speakers about 2 years ago and went to every big box store (Future Shop, A&B, etc) and had a listen to all the brands out there like Bose, Sony, Yamaha, Energy, Mission, etc. I then went to a number of smaller outlets and tried the less mass market consumer oriented, higher end brands like B&K, Paradigm, Axiom, Monitor, etc. I didn't have any price range in mind, but I was hoping to spend less than $2000US. I finally stopped at a little shop and tried out their Tannoy speakers. The guys were great and very accomodating. I brought in every sort of speaker to A/B and they'd go through and hook them up so we could have a listen. They even let me take home their S8L/R so I could A/B at my place or at some other hi-fi stores. They were pretty confident about their product. In the end, the neutrality of these speakers made the decision an easy one. I've had the speakers for about 18 months and still no apparent problems. My wife who initially said, "big deal, a speaker is a speaker," finally agreed that she could listen to these speakers all the time. We finally upgraded the receiver and DVD player to Integra DTR and DPS 7.2, and WOW the whole setup sounds amazing now. I can't really imagine another setup that sounds this good for this small amount of money. If you're in the market for new speakers, give this brand a try. They're hard to find (I think there's only 50 dealers in North America), but if you can find them, give your ears a pleasant treat.

Strengths:
Overall neutrality. Excellent clarity especially through the midrange.

Weaknesses:
Wife isn't exactly keen on the look.

Similar Products Used:
Paradigm, B&W, B&K, Monitor, Sinclair, Energy, Mission, Bose, many, many others.