The new Tannoy Reveal D range of active near field monitoring speakers builds upon the success and recording industry
reputation of the famous original Tannoy Reveal Active. When launched in the mid nineties, the Reveal Active was widely
recognised as the product that defined the category and has been the active monitor of choice for thousands of amateur and
professional recording, creative composition and postproduction facilities worldwide.
The original Reveal Active model was well renowned for its rigid cabinet and substantial baffle. With the new Reveal D models,
the cabinets have been further braced and refined to provide the most rigid platform possible for the new driver designs.
Securely attached to the solid baffle, with no less than 10 hex socket countersunk-head screws, an all-new bass driver
performs with significantly reduced distortion. Magnetic circuit flux control rings and extensive Klippell™ based symmetry
analysis made this performance improvement possible, with the new drivers providing tight, punchy and controlled bass
response with a clean and open mid range for superb vocal intelligibility. The open and detailed reproduction of mid-high
frequencies is further enhanced with the inclusion of the Tannoy WideBand™ high frequency unit to improve and extend the
high frequency phase response. This ensures increased tonal accuracy of individual instruments in the reproduction process
- a mix critical factor allowing the best EQ and placement decisions to be made.
Significant advances in digital speaker measuring techniques such as Klippell™ symmetry and non linear distortion analysis,
laser scanning interferometry, acoustic CAD simulation, and precision manufacturing processes have all resulted in a
comprehensively improved range of Reveal monitors. The new models provide greater bandwidth, significantly lower levels
of distortion, smoother responses, more accurate phase control, higher sensitivity levels and greater input source flexibility.
Add in a comprehensive calibrated EQ facility for mid / near / close field working in full / half /quarter and eighth space
environments, midband and high frequency trim shelving controls, a choice of power and cabinet sizes, analogue and digital
input trim facilities, and user requirements can be satisfied for all listening environments and applications.
Tannoy engineers have researched ways of dealing effectively with the acoustic effects of mid, near and close field listening
distances, in order to compensate for the relative size and distance of the acoustic source and resultant spherical / plane
wave dilemmas. Additionally, the effect of boundaries near a monitor speaker, such as walls, support tables and mixing
console surfaces can change the air load on the low frequency cone piston and consequently the radiating efficiency in the
100Hz to 800Hz region.
A set of DIP switches on the rear control panel of the new
Reveal D Active monitors allow the selection of an optimum
speaker response for real life and often difficult monitoring
situations so that the frequency response at the listener’s ears
is always as linear and flat as possible. Optimisation can
be preset for far field (>2m), mid field (1~2m), near field (~1m)
and close field (<0.5m) situations in combination with free
space (4pi), half space (2pi), quarter space (pi) and extreme
eighth space (pi/2) corner situations. Reveal monitors can
therefore be optimised for varying listening distances in difficult
acoustic spaces; varying meter bridge positions, against and
adjacent to walls or reflecting surfaces, in corners, in corners
on shelves or brackets, table top / space restricted PC/Mac
based sound editing environments and stand mounted or
soffit mounted configurations. (see graph overleaf).

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