On this page you will find a HPD315 chassis converted to a Monitor Gold 12'.
The HPD chassis of the Tannoy HPD range all suffer from foam surround rot of the bass cone,
Below a photo of a resurround:
The rotted surround leftovers:
It is a precision work to do the resurrounf right!
The result after few days work:
Below you can see that the resurround when done right, the HPD315 is looking as NEW again.
But there remains a problem, when you use an original surround
or replacement cone, the rot starts after 15 years again,
So after 18 years I had to take the cones out of the chassis again and start
all over again with the surround.
You can imagine that the cone sufferes very from every resurround. So I thought
how to solve this permanently?
I wanted to try a MG12' cone as they never degrade.
On the picture below you can see that Tannoy used paper surrounds in later models.
Below the original MG12 chassis in cabinet:
Below a MG12 in Japanese cabinet:
In this HPD315 chassis that quite the same as the Monitor Gold 12' chassis you can fit a MG12' bass cone as well:
Below the result of a HPD315 coverted to a MG12':
The sound of the converted HPD is of course different, but not less than the original: sound is fantastic!
The spare cone used here is from 1969 and has
been boxed until 2016, it was a little dry after so
many years but still 100%,
and after cleaning it still looks a little stained on the photo, but in reality
one hardly notices that.
This page is presented to you by ON9MMK on the Tannoy Monitor Gold website.