![]() Never mind adding to the problems because you have to satisfy Homes & Garden magazine. It’s nigh on impossible to produce the perfect speaker given all the tools you need, anyway. My god, speakers are packed with enough compromises as it is. The entire raison d’être of so much loudspeaker design often starts from a design perspective. A PR man’s dream that speaker manufacturers have to please, what they call, the ‘little woman’ back home (you know, the one who stands in the middle of the front room wearing a pinny, holding a feather duster and permanently lives in 1956.) A slave to some obscure marketing perception that money is to be found in the lifestyle arena. I often wonder if the hi-fi industry is sacrificing itself on the alter of interior design. Speakers, so slim, they disappear within their own anorexic slenderness if viewed head on. I also know that their design philosophy dictates, to some extent their final design approach but I wholeheartedly support their decision not to ‘go thin’ like just about every other sheep-like, scared-of-their-own-shadow, loudspeaker manufacturer on planet Earth. I know that it’s a question of personal taste but I just love the look of Tannoy Eaton speakers. Taking a rather retro look to its design ethic, Paul Rigby reviews the Tannoy Eaton stand-mount speakers ![]()
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