Now, that's a real speaker! Unless you examine it, or read the literature on the Tannoy Canterbury GR ($30,000/pair), you might think that you're looking at a speaker made more than a half-century ago: a very substantial floorstander that's wide as well as deep, making no concession to modern speaker design ideas like keeping as narrow a front baffle as possible.
The Canterbury GR still uses a 15" dual-concentric driver, but the product literature describes a host of technical improvements that bring the speaker into the 21st century. Driven by Cary Audio tube electronics, the pair of Canterbury GRs at SSI 2014, while having a bit more "character" than the best contemporary designs, certainly didn't sound like a relic, and was nothing if not easy on the ears.
