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The Speaker Shack from the UK attended this year the High-end Munich show and his full report is now available on his website through the link below. https://www.thespeakershacks.co.uk/2024/05/munich-high-end-2024-show-report.html

His first stop was the room of Symphony Distribution & Tannoy where Tannoy’s newest loudspeaker, the Autograph 12 was playing driven by our PrimaLuna EVO amplifiers!  

Tannoy

Tannoy was at this years Munich show with a new speaker and celebrating 70 years of its Autograph model this was the first showing of the new design, the Autograph 12. Headed by Daniel Raggett of Symphony Distribution who is the Super Partner and distributor of Tannoy speakers in the UK his team welcomed me to the show and gave me an exclusive look and in depth listen to what is an utterly superb new model and allowed me to get plenty of content for my social media channels, it proved to be a formidable system and was partnered with PrimaLuna EVO 300 preamplifier and EVO 400 power amplifier, Linn Klimax streamer was used as the source and Atlas cables used to tie all the components together. The synergy was superb and the PrimaLuna proved to be an excellent choice of components to show off what this new speaker could do. It was one of the most natural and dynamic sounding systems of the whole show for me and for many of the visitors it was the highlight for them as the positivity from people visiting the rooms was excellent with so many commenting on how good they sounded, a gentleman from Ireland came up to me and said he has listened to all of the Tannoy range and this new model was his favourite, and there was many more with requests of music to be played on the system, it did not matter what music was played they sounded superb what ever and I managed to get quite a few new tracks to add to my playlists thanks to all those people as some of the music was new to me and I loved hearing all the different music on this system. I also spoke with the designer of the new Autograph 12’s Danny Cooklin and he explained that there is a completely new tweeter design incorporated into the concentric driver which is a first for this model, Danny is an extremely talented speaker designer and just one part of team Tannoy as there was Stuart, Steve, Bogdan and Danny and also Jes Kerr of Kerr Acoustics who was part of this superb team helping at the show and made it such enjoyable time and visit. They had static displays of the other Tannoy speakers from the Studio range, SGM10, SGM12’s and also the Stirling III’s that I heard at the London Audio Show last month. The other room they had was playing the big SGM15’s which was another huge hit with the visitors and again the positivity and great comments made all their hard work pay off. The bass from the SGM15’s was prodigious as the punch and slam was incredible from the big 15″ drivers, the system consisted of a Prima Luna Hybrid Integrated amplifier which powered them effortlessly, for the source an Auralic streamer was used and again Atlas cables were used to tie it all together. 

I want to give a massive shout out to all of the team at Tannoy for such an enjoyable show and even got a team photo shot with them, I absolutely loved their speakers especially the new Autograph 12’s which sounded superb and were one of my favourites of this years Munich show as it was such a well balanced system!