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I'm chuffed that you managed to save the bridge.

Nina Simone's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. Brings tears to this manbaby's eyes.

I was never that keen on UB40's covers, but their hearts were most certainly in the right place."Labour of Love" was what it said on the tin.

I had one, it does record really well.

Yes. I had a look. Was tempted by a power supply/power amp board but I have food and drugs to buy first.

Do they have any more?

So THAT's what it's for 😁

12 year old me was astonished by Coz I Luv U. "That singer doesn't need a microphone!!!" I'd love to have heard Noddy+AC/DC.

Between me and Mr Horse, I think we've pulled off the greatest thread derail since Stop Posting Without Reading. Appo pollo loggies, my droogies.

Yes that's what mine look like. When did you work for Tannoy? These, and their predecessors the Monitor Golds, were their flagship. They proved too expensive to manufacture (the hf driver fires through dozens of exponential holes in the magnet, then the cone continues the exponential curve so the hf from 1kHz up is horn loaded, very sensitive and thereby suffers less from thermal compression) so they dumbed down with the DC2000, still dual concentric but with separate hf unit. Then they did the Mercury and other bog standard boxes. They recently(ie this century) reissued the hpds for staggering prices. They have a unique sound that doesn't appeal to people who like Beats headphones, i think the average age of a tannoy hpd owner is similar to the Basdchat mean, but I wouldn't swap them for ordinary boom and tizz boxes. Other fan boys here: https://www.hilberink.nl/speaker.htm

They made them like that between 1979 and some time in the 80s. They were standard in British studios; Dennis Bovell, Mad Professor and others still prefer them. I have four, and have reconed more than once. You can still buy the cones, but sadly not the speakers. They are beautiful loudspeakers. Google "tannoy hpd"

Yes, I have four of then 😀

Excellent piece, Phil. Here's how Tannoy attempt to reduce cone breakup:And how it's encouraged in guitar speakers:

"All you need is a router*, a dremel and a bag of weed" *rhymes with "shouter" 😉

Yes, that's what I meant.

Truly naff. It could so easily have been designed to flow, just looks like a quick and dirty DIY bodge on a cheap copy. And, yeah, the string/neck alignment.

Let us know how that goes, I have one or two candidates for a bit of liposuction

Yes, they were never great. +1 for coax, you can't move for Tannoy speakers here at Bremen Towers.

I always thought a whizzer was an extension to the cone, rather than a separate transducer. Used to see them on cheapo record players - the luxury ones had separate tweeters.

Tell you wat though,out of my seven basses (value between £5 and £1500), my favourite is the one I just put new strings on...

Did it change the sound of the instrument?

I didn't understand what either the dead dog or the old nag said 😂

I have many sub-£500 basses, have just bought a £1700 bass and see no reason except nostalgia for keeping any of the sub-500s. It has taken me many tears (predictive text there - I meant to type "years" but let's stay with "tears") and experiments to learn which was the right £1700 bass though. I once bought an expensive bass thinking "this must be good, Player X uses one and it costs ten times as much as the one I have now". But it didn't suit me at all, so I went back to buying lots of cheap basses.