In back, all three models feature impressively solid all-metal, biwireable binding posts that are more than a few notches above the sort I usually spot on affordable speakers.
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It features the same driver complement as the DCC.
You can use the 16-inch-tall bookshelf model, the DC1 ($500), as a surround or front speaker. The squat, 13.75-inch-wide DCC center speaker ($549) forgoes the standard woofer-tweeter-woofer arrangement in favor of a single Dual Concentric 7-inch unit and the topside SuperTweeter. Yeah, I know the woofers look metallic, but they are, in fact, "multi-fibre paper pulp." Old-fashioned, yes, but I know lots of speaker designers who believe that nothing sounds better than paper woofers. The second, 7-inch driver is a paper woofer. You can't actually see that dome, as it resides behind a wave guide that is said to produce a spherical wave launch to better blend with the midwoofer. The driver complement includes that pod-mounted, 1-inch titanium dome SuperTweeter, set back on the cabinet to time-align it with the acoustic center of the Dual Concentric's 7-inch midwoofer and 1-inch titanium dome. The DC2's front baffle is covered with dark gray fabric, which adds a certain refinement to the Sensys' look. This handsome tower stands a shade over 38 inches tall and weighs 37.5 pounds, but it feels heavier. And this was in stereo, relying on just the floorstanding Sensys DC2 ($1,300/pair). The Dual Concentric's advantages are very real I've never heard a speaker anywhere near this price that could match this sound. The tactile sounds of hands beating taut drum heads caught me by surprise it was viscerally organic and whole. I listened with my mouth agape to a spectacular Glen Velez CD, Assyrian Rose, an all-acoustic recording of Middle Eastern percussion and flutes. Their sound is detailed, dynamic, and tonally linear imaging is unerringly precise and focused. The Sensys DC line benefits from kinship with Tannoy's $20,000 Churchill Wideband va-va-voom flagship, but the Sensys models are among the least expensive speakers ever offered with Dual Concentric drivers.
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The Dual Concentric breakthrough led to a range of legendary speakers in the pro audio and high-end markets for more than half a century.
Dual Concentric is a really big deal because it generates minimal off-axis phase shifts over its nearly full-range frequency response: High and low frequencies originate from the same point. Tannoy dubbed their "tweeter inside a woofer" design as Dual Concentric, a hallmark of the company's upper-end speakers that dates back to (gulp) 1948. Look again and scrutinize the 7-inch woofer with bull's eye circles in its center that's another, albeit standard, tweeter. It's home to a SuperTweeter that's designed to extend the speaker's response out to a range that only dogs and bats can hear, claimed to be all the way up to 51 kilohertz. Notice anything unusual? Anything at all? I suppose that little gray pod sitting atop each speaker will catch your eye first. Take a close look at the new Tannoy Sensys DC speakers. Innovative Engineering + Dual Concentric Driver + SuperTweeter = Magical Sound.
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