Prometheus
Standard Member
Hi all
I have just taken delivery this morning of a set of 5 Tannoy saturn S8C speakers. they are being sold by Tannoy direct via Fleabay for a knockdown price of £60.00 each. They are brand new old stock from their warehouse an fully boxed (as you would expect being new) These units were £300.00 each when they were released (about 6 years ago). They utilise Tannoys dual concentric driver technology and I am listening to them now. The bass is very tight and punchy (thanks to 8" cone size) and the trebles are very clean and acurate, at least compared to my B&W 600's that these have just replaced - there is no comparison!! I also like to listen to my music loud on occasion and these babies are taking a good warm up with no complaints so far. In fact if anything the more I crank them up the better they are sounding
. they are fantastic, the imaging is superb and I'm told that they can take 50-100 hrs or so before they begin to really reveal themselves.
The only point to make is that the only model that they have available in the Saturns is the S8C which is essentially the centre speaker in the range, but there is no difference at all to the Left and right units except for the placement of the driver in the cabinet. This is fine for me as I intend to mount them landscape studio monitor style anyway but there would be no problem mounting them portrait if you wanted (the badges even clip off and can be attached in the portrait position
). If anything I believe that the centre unit has the full plate shielding making them very solid indeed at 12.5kg each. Ironically though, they are a bit unwieldy to use as centre speaker as they are the size of large standmounts in their proportions. The quality of the finish is excellent with gold plated bi-wirable posts and a front firing tunable port (ie, it has a bit of sponge in it
)
As I said I bought five of these beauties for the price that a single one would have cost a few years back, in fact I have seen them selling on a current USA website for what they call their sale price of $400 each for the S8C's
.
I just wanted to share this with everyone because they sound so amazing and to get five matched dual concentric Tannoys (the same technolgy as the prestige and dimension range which cost £thousands) for a surround system for the price of a pair of reasonable floor standers is to my mind a phenomenal bargain for getting a very high quality sound. As far as I'm aware you would have to pay more than this price just to buy the drivers for any Tannoy dual concentrics. They may not be to everyone's taste as far as the design goes but I love them as they have champagne baffles which matches my decor & my denon amp (a small point but worth mentioning).
Here is a link to a page with the specs of the range (remembering that they only have the S8C - and I have asked). You can see from this page that the centre and LR models have exactly the same spec.
http://www.dvdscan.com/tannoy/tannoysaturn.htm
Here is the link to Fleabay, I also have a telephone number to ring if you want to buy 5 like I did, if you PM i'll pass it on (is this OK mods?)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14991&item=5749252994&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
and finally i've taken a couple of photos of two of them I haven't unpacked the rest yet. yes that's right my praise is based on two of them set up as left/right fronts!!!
I confirm that my opinions are my own, and despite how it might sound I have no affiliation to Tannoy, i'm just quite blown away by these speakers. Whilst I'm sure that you can buy speakers which are better than these I cannot imagine that you could buy 5 of them for this money. Surely this is a bargain deal, if you go for it you won't be sorry. If you have any other questions please feel free to ask I'll answer if I can.
For the Mods - I have passed on forum details to the guy in charge of shifting this stock, and explained briefly about the powerbuy system. He has checked out the forums and he was very interested although he only has about 50 left and they are going fast, he may get back to you with future deals..... here's hoping.
I have just taken delivery this morning of a set of 5 Tannoy saturn S8C speakers. they are being sold by Tannoy direct via Fleabay for a knockdown price of £60.00 each. They are brand new old stock from their warehouse an fully boxed (as you would expect being new) These units were £300.00 each when they were released (about 6 years ago). They utilise Tannoys dual concentric driver technology and I am listening to them now. The bass is very tight and punchy (thanks to 8" cone size) and the trebles are very clean and acurate, at least compared to my B&W 600's that these have just replaced - there is no comparison!! I also like to listen to my music loud on occasion and these babies are taking a good warm up with no complaints so far. In fact if anything the more I crank them up the better they are sounding
The only point to make is that the only model that they have available in the Saturns is the S8C which is essentially the centre speaker in the range, but there is no difference at all to the Left and right units except for the placement of the driver in the cabinet. This is fine for me as I intend to mount them landscape studio monitor style anyway but there would be no problem mounting them portrait if you wanted (the badges even clip off and can be attached in the portrait position
As I said I bought five of these beauties for the price that a single one would have cost a few years back, in fact I have seen them selling on a current USA website for what they call their sale price of $400 each for the S8C's
I just wanted to share this with everyone because they sound so amazing and to get five matched dual concentric Tannoys (the same technolgy as the prestige and dimension range which cost £thousands) for a surround system for the price of a pair of reasonable floor standers is to my mind a phenomenal bargain for getting a very high quality sound. As far as I'm aware you would have to pay more than this price just to buy the drivers for any Tannoy dual concentrics. They may not be to everyone's taste as far as the design goes but I love them as they have champagne baffles which matches my decor & my denon amp (a small point but worth mentioning).
Here is a link to a page with the specs of the range (remembering that they only have the S8C - and I have asked). You can see from this page that the centre and LR models have exactly the same spec.
http://www.dvdscan.com/tannoy/tannoysaturn.htm
Here is the link to Fleabay, I also have a telephone number to ring if you want to buy 5 like I did, if you PM i'll pass it on (is this OK mods?)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14991&item=5749252994&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
and finally i've taken a couple of photos of two of them I haven't unpacked the rest yet. yes that's right my praise is based on two of them set up as left/right fronts!!!
I confirm that my opinions are my own, and despite how it might sound I have no affiliation to Tannoy, i'm just quite blown away by these speakers. Whilst I'm sure that you can buy speakers which are better than these I cannot imagine that you could buy 5 of them for this money. Surely this is a bargain deal, if you go for it you won't be sorry. If you have any other questions please feel free to ask I'll answer if I can.
For the Mods - I have passed on forum details to the guy in charge of shifting this stock, and explained briefly about the powerbuy system. He has checked out the forums and he was very interested although he only has about 50 left and they are going fast, he may get back to you with future deals..... here's hoping.