Tannoy Stirlings on the way!

I'll have to look into those HRS Nimbus spacers.  At the moment I still just have a book stuck under the fronts.

@trentmemphis I am new here but looking at the Stirlings at upscale audio. I also have the McIntosh MC152 amp paired with a C50 pee amp. After your apparent two years with these are you still happy? 

I tend to listen to Jazz old (Miles, Thelonius, Mingus) and new (Jon Batiste and Amy Winehouse) along with 70's and 80's rock; do you think these will work for me?

Hello, there, and welcome!

I'm very happy with that combination, yes.  Being a restless audiophile, I want to try it with tubes, but the Stirlings sing wonderfully with the Mac gear we own.

I listen to 70s/80s rock only rarely, but lots of golden era jazz.  The Stirlings are a very good match for that, and I think they'll do just fine with the rock material, too, depending on how big your room is and how much bass you like to have.  If you want tons of thump and your room is medium-large or bigger, you probably want to step up to the Turnberry, or supplement with a sub, which is what I did (although I already had the subs).  The Stirlings produce plentiful bass, and it's good bass, but they aren't going to stove your chest in when John Bonham stomps the kick.

As for the electronics, they're the only ones I've heard the Stirlings with.  Maybe they're capable of much, much more with other gear; I wouldn't know.  But I have been listening to speakers and electronics for a long, long time, so I do have some idea what things should sound like, and I like what I'm getting.

Best wishes with the purchase!

@trentmemphis thank you for taking the time to write back and the thoughtful answer.

So, that whole thing about finding some stands to get these speakers up to more of an on-axis position, I never found anything that would work.  So I'm having Sound Anchor build a set for me.

They'll be 4-posters, 9.5" high.  The platform will be 14.5 x 13.25, which is the dimensions of the built-in base of the Stirlings, plus a half-inch in both dimensions.  They're going to weld a half-inch thick bar across the back to create a 1" high lip.  This will keep them from sliding off if/when I experiment with adding some rake angle in addition to the lift.

The base of the stands will be 18.5" deep, and 16.5" wide.  That adds a bit to the footprint of the speakers, which I was hoping to avoid, but it's not too terribly much.  I have more space in the depth dimension, so it should be manageable.

Build will take about 8 weeks.