Tannoy Mercury M2 Review
Replaced by an improved Tannoy M2.5 the M2 have been my main speakers for well over 6 years and gets better with time. The wood finish even with the grills on is classy and looks expensive and well made.
The sound of the Tannoy M2 can be incredible at times however limited. When you have a few instruments playing it is truly jaw dropping. Piano is incredibly realistic and acoustic guitars natural. Anything from Carol King to most chill out music sounded incredible. The bass range is well extended to the point where you think you are listing to floor standers (and that is bold claim to make!). Where it does fall down is when there are many instruments playing at the same time. It does not do it badly but more expensive speakers sound better on layered complex pieces of rock, jazz or classical playing many different instruments all at the same time.
I had paired this amp up with Merantz PM-48 for while becuase all the reviews at the time had but found the bass to be soft and slow and laking in tunefull bass guitars. I ended up rectifying the problem with NAD amplifier and better source and sound really good.
The Tannoys can not be bi-wired.
posted by Dami @ 2:59 PM
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Could I ask which NAD amp did you pair these with? I'm interested in buying some of these speakers but just wonder how they'll fit with the NAD 3020.
Thanks a lot :-)
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I have the NAD T750 receiver. The beuty of NAD is that even though you have an early model and my friends have the C series, all NAD amps sound similar and that sound is excellent.
The Tannoys do sound lovely but I have to say the best speakers are possibly older TDL 2 floor standers at this price range.
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