Frank - a fellow member of the Westminster Guild - and I have been having a fun discussion over e-mail that was quite interesting, and I asked Frank if I might share part of it with you for your edification. The gist of it? Having fun with music and Hi-Fi gear, along with some really nice photos from Frank (we both enjoy photography). So here you go:

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for posting the pictures and helping get the word out about Tannoy. It is interesting that you mentioned Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg because I just finished his book "The Search For Musical Ecstasy." There are some KR amplifiers with the title "Kronzilla" originating with Harvey and his admiration for Ricardo Kron and his tubes. Dr. Kron and Harvey passed away about the same time. His wife Eunice has continued the search for musical ecstasy in the home. A couple of years ago I was listening to an opera with the Memory speakers and as it ended I captured a very unique view with my camera. I recently wrote about it and sent it to Eunice. I thought you might be interested in seeing the pictures and my short story.

Kind regards,

Frank

Note: For those who aren't familiar with Harvey Rosenberg's writings give his website a visit. While the good Doctor has left the planet, his writing lives on. Below is an e-mail sent to the afore-mentioned Eunice by Frank:

Hi Eunice,

As my KR340 and the 300BXLS tubes were hymning the praises of my Tannoy speakers with glorious music from Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni," my music room was flooded from the outside with a sunset in the West and a rainbow in the East simultaneously captured in the attached pictures. I wonder was this beautiful vision part of an inaudible melody from the music of the spheres?

As Don giovanni disappeared into the flames of hell and the opera concluded with the musical strains of justice, the captured moment of sunset, rainbow, and music, brought to mind three geniuses of music, namely, Pythagoras, Josef Strauss, and Dr. Ricardo Kron.

What did Pythagoras, Josef Strauss, and Dr. Kron have in common? All of them had a love for music. Pythagoras believed that the Universe is constructed on harmonic proportions and that the music of the spheres, inaudible to us, is the sweetest melody.

Josef Strauss was an engineer and an architect and he contemplated the music of the spheres as much as Pythagoras before him. This younger brother of Johann II lived and loved music, and was every bit as fine a musician as his brother. As well as loooking back to Pythagoras, he looked a hundred years into the future and mysteriously saw Dr. Kron's love of music with an equal passion for music in the home through the phonograph and reproduced sound.

In the 1860s Josef Strauss talked about music as an art for home enjoyment. His biographer said that Josef Strauss believed that "the atmosphere of the concert hall was not conducive to true musical enjoyment, either from the standpoint of the performer or the listener." Dr. Kron and KR Audio have made that prophecy come true on the worldwide stage for more people than Pythagoras and Josef Strauss ever dreamed possible.

Kind regards,

Frank

Many thanks to Frank for letting me share with you a part of our discussion about music and Hi-Fi.

If you, dear readers, have a music & Hi-Fi story you'd like to share be sure to let me know.

Best,

Jeff