Tannoy’s first speaker in seven years, the Stirling III LZ Special Edition, is a homage to the company’s 1960s-released III LZ (Monitor Red), combining vintage aesthetics with modern engineering to resurrect one of the brand’s all-time classics. Considering the popularity of retro-modern speakers right now, this seems to us like a sensible reintroduction.
The new Stirling speaker’s design is built around the latest incarnation of the company’s Dual Concentric Alnico Magnet driver, which this time sees a two-inch aluminium/magnesium alloy dome tweeter at the centre of the 10-inch paper pulp cone driver’s cone. This Dual Concentric driver has been used in Tannoy designs since the company invented it in 1947 – including in the III LZ.
