Tannoy Mercury VC Center Speaker — Dark Walnut, Dual 4″ Drivers

Tannoy Mercury VC — The Centre Channel Voiced from the Mercury V1, Built to Make Dialogue Effortless

A properly voiced centre channel from Tannoy’s Mercury V range, built to sit under a screen and make dialogue effortless to follow.

The Job of a Centre Channel

A centre speaker has one job that matters more than any other, and it is not impressing anyone in a demonstration. It is making speech intelligible at the volume you actually watch at, in a room with a sofa and a rug and someone opening a bag of crisps. The VC was designed around that job. Two 100mm multi-fibre coated pulped paper cones flank a one-inch woven polyester dome, damped with a nitro-urethane layer, crossing over at 2.9 kHz — a driver arrangement chosen for even off-axis behaviour, so the person in the corner armchair hears the same dialogue as the person in the middle of the sofa.

Voiced to Match

It is voiced from the components and tuning of the Mercury V1 standmount, which is the part that matters if you already own Tannoys. A centre that does not timbre-match the speakers either side of it draws attention to itself every time a voice pans across the front stage. This one was built to disappear into a Mercury V front three, and it sits comfortably with other Tannoys of similar vintage.

Practical Details

Practical details are sensible throughout. The cabinet is magnetically shielded, so it can sit hard against a screen or on a shelf below one without trouble. Twin rear reflex ports give it more low-end weight than a centre this size usually manages, which is what keeps male voices from thinning out. Terminals are proper 4 mm binding posts that take bananas, spades or bare wire. At 90 dB sensitivity and 8 ohms it is an easy load, happy on anything from 10 watts upward, and it will take 70 watts continuous without complaint. Worth measuring your shelf before ordering: at nearly 17 inches wide it is a full-size centre, not a compact one.

Condition

Cosmetically this example is graded Very Good, showing only the light handling marks a well-kept speaker of its age carries. It has been bench-tested in-house.

A well-made, easy-to-drive centre channel that does the one thing a centre has to do, and does it without asking much of the amplifier in front of it.

Available for pickup in Kanata, or shipped across Canada and internationally — we have sent equipment to fifteen countries in the past year, each piece packed in-house in 275 lb test double-wall boxes. Live shipping rates for your address are calculated at checkout. Backed by Radique Audio’s Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and our Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Available for audition by appointment in Kanata.

Tannoy Mercury VC Specifications

• Design: Two-way magnetically shielded centre channel speaker, twin rear reflex ports
• High frequency: 25mm (1 inch) woven polyester dome, nitro-urethane damped
• Low frequency: 2 x 100mm (4 inch) multi-fibre coated pulped paper cones
• Crossover frequency: 2.9 kHz
• Frequency response: 67 Hz to 25 kHz
• Sensitivity: 90 dB
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
• Recommended amplifier power: 10 to 90 watts
• Power handling: 70 watts continuous, 140 watts peak
• Terminals: 4 mm binding posts, banana plug compatible
• Internal wiring: Silver-plated oxygen-free copper
• Finish: Dark walnut
• Dimensions: (Width x Height x Depth) 16.9 x 5.5 x 6.7 inches (430 x 140 x 170 mm)
• Weight: 10.8 lbs (4.9 kg)

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