I just finished up installing the other Duelund crossover on the right Westminster Royal SE, so now I have a stereo pair up and running. Not bad progress for a weekends worth of work!

I was able to improve the layout of the right channel pair of Duelund crossovers and make it quite a bit more compact (below). The breadboards of the left & right crossovers are the same size, 2-feet by 2-feet, but if you look closely at the black lines on the breadboard  you can tell I was able to get the pair of right channel Duelund crossovers into a more compact space compared to the left channel pair of Duelund crossovers.

The space inside the black lines is 18.5 inches by 20.5 inches, which is the same size as the walnut platforms in the photo below, which was my size goal.

Here's the left channel Duelund breadboard crossovers for comparison. Notice how it takes up the entire breadboard.

The overall musical balance reminds me a lot of what I was hearing with the ASR electronics - that's intended as a huge compliment - but there's a lot more musical information coming through with the Duelund crossovers in place than there was with the stock Tannoy crossovers plus the ASR gear. So when you figure the ASR amp and phono equalizer came in around $45K USD that's saying a lot about the value of installing the Duelund-WRSE crossovers.

As I was just telling Siedy in Holland, the WRSEs are sounding amazing with literally no time on the crossovers. It will be interesting to hear what happens as the Duelund crossovers get some more break-in time on them. Not to mention what happens when I put the Panatela wiring harness in, rewire with Neotech wire in the crossovers, condition everything with the Audiodharma Cable Cooker, etc.

I'm so stoked about what I am hearing that I popped a bottle of bubbly to toast my Sunday stereo success! Cheers!

Here's a toast to Frederik Carøe in Denmark for making the truly otherworldly Duelund capacitors, inductors, and resistors that will make your musical life a whole lot more satisfying!

I'm sitting here listening to a new Chet Baker Quartet LP (above photo) I bought from Acoustic Sounds (Barclay Disques label) that is sounding so good its blowing my mind. Just before this I had my Analogue Productions test pressing LP of Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby spinning on the 'table and it was blowing my mind too.

Ok that's it for now, and I'm declaring today a complete success.

I'll have much more to say about what I'm hearing as things get a little further along, but for now suffice it to say the Duelund crossover upgrade is a no-brainer: all gain and no pain!

Much more to come.

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