Tannoy HPD385 - DIY project
This is actually a test recording of our Tannoy HPD 385 speakers, made to test the Zoom Q3 Handy Video Recorder on loan from a friend and some new AV editing software. The quality of the original Q3 recording was noticeably better before I converted/compressed the original MOV files to AVI format (because I wanted to combine and edit the original files into a movie so I could upload it here in a reasonable amount of time;)). Anyway, these are our Tannoy HPD speakers (15”) in a DIY Berkeley box. The original drivers were in a poor shape so we needed to refoam them as well as design and build a new crossover from scratch. This is the result. The speakers are currently hooked up to our Dufresne 300B tube amplifier, Rosellini 6SN7GT (Ken-Rad) tube preamplifier and Tascam CD701 player. The music is from CD “Bassics: The Best of the Ray Brown Trio 1977-2000″, Concord Jazz (Disc 1, Track 8 “Summertime” — chosen for its dynamic range; don’t miss the last 60 secs.). Mind you, I normally do not listen to the stereo system with my head virtually shoved into one of the drivers. 
In reality, the sound is at its glorious best a few meters in the front center of BOTH speakers (depending how loud the volume is). Also, the system’s bass output in the recording is somewhat weaker due to the inherent limitations of the Q3 Video Recorder. That being said, the recording is still close enough for you to get the idea.