It's just that, IME, the fact that Tannoy can't market or distribute their way out of the proverbial paper bag- that is why they're not any more popular than they are. That said- IMHO- Tannoys from the 1990s and newer (from the time of the Churchill Wideband and beyond)- they have seemed to consistently get everything pretty much right. And even there, there's some "quirks" about them (primarily small response deviations from flat response), that can make them not match what some people want to hear. Tannoy, IMHO, is about the only people who have reliably "gotten it right". Many fail the second (forcing the woofer to go too high in frequency, and/or rolling off in the top octave badly, which can result in harsh and/or dull soud), and even more fail the third (the tweeter gives up when asked to provide life-like transients). Dual concentrics are harder to do well than other designs- primarily, due to the difficulty of building a concentric tweeter that will simultaneously fit, cover the needed frequency range (from below 1KHz to above 20KHz, ideally), and handle the dynamics and max output level correctly.
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