Hello,
A few months ago I sold my Tannoy Gold monitors and I need a pair of decent speakers.
My wife has health issues and I am tied up with a lot of work around the home. So, I have downsized my system, I do not have the time to turn on and off different components, just a simple integrated amplifier will do.
A dear friend of mine highly recommended the Graham Audio SB-88, and another, the Harbeth SHL5. My Meridian 551 puts 55W/Ch into 8?, it will work fine with the Harbeths but not sure if it has enough power to drive the Grahams.
I grew up with The Beatles, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker, etc., but at home the music played by my parents and grandparents was classical. When living in Vienna we had season tickets to the Musikverein and when possible trips to the Berlin Philharmonic or London Philharmonic were made. I only play classical music now, I am an old chap.
Why British speakers? My first speakers were a pair Tannoy 15" Gold Monitors in Lancaster cabinets, then, and in no particular order, I had QUAD 57, three pairs of QUAD ESL-63, KEF 105, Spendor BC1, Radford Studio S90, Celef PE1, Mission 770 and several loudspeaker kits from Richard Allan and Falcon Acoustics. I had a pair of Goldmund Dialogues too, lovely speakers but when a tweeter blew up there was no replacement available. Nothing new in Goldmund 's way of doing business, but poor service attention, I could not even find parts for my T3F tonearm. I also had a pair of Aerial Acoustics 10T and a pair of Altec 845 Valencia but they did not impress me.
Is there a forum member who is familiar with both speakers?
Cheers,
Horacio
A few months ago I sold my Tannoy Gold monitors and I need a pair of decent speakers.
My wife has health issues and I am tied up with a lot of work around the home. So, I have downsized my system, I do not have the time to turn on and off different components, just a simple integrated amplifier will do.
A dear friend of mine highly recommended the Graham Audio SB-88, and another, the Harbeth SHL5. My Meridian 551 puts 55W/Ch into 8?, it will work fine with the Harbeths but not sure if it has enough power to drive the Grahams.
I grew up with The Beatles, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker, etc., but at home the music played by my parents and grandparents was classical. When living in Vienna we had season tickets to the Musikverein and when possible trips to the Berlin Philharmonic or London Philharmonic were made. I only play classical music now, I am an old chap.
Why British speakers? My first speakers were a pair Tannoy 15" Gold Monitors in Lancaster cabinets, then, and in no particular order, I had QUAD 57, three pairs of QUAD ESL-63, KEF 105, Spendor BC1, Radford Studio S90, Celef PE1, Mission 770 and several loudspeaker kits from Richard Allan and Falcon Acoustics. I had a pair of Goldmund Dialogues too, lovely speakers but when a tweeter blew up there was no replacement available. Nothing new in Goldmund 's way of doing business, but poor service attention, I could not even find parts for my T3F tonearm. I also had a pair of Aerial Acoustics 10T and a pair of Altec 845 Valencia but they did not impress me.
Is there a forum member who is familiar with both speakers?
Cheers,
Horacio