It's always a treat to hear from Frank, and Frank's system is looking awesome!

Hi Jeff, 

The Tannoy/Duelund story has been quiet so I thought it was time to bring you my new and perhaps final musical experience resting place. A few weeks ago you reported on “Howard Checking in from the U.K.” about his Tannoy/Duelund “Sound is Sublime,” I can echo Howard and your Duelund Silver Autotransformer musical observations and joyous experience. Which brings me to a musing from an early 1800s American poet, Edward Allan Poe who said:   “When by music , the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we ourselves melted into tears, not…through excess of pleasure, but through a certain impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and forever, those divine and rapturous joys, of which…through the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.” 

For me, I know that my auditory observations have changed with maturity, and that a certain level of experience is required to understand the important sonic qualities that you have talked about many times. But I also believe Poe’s words still ring true in another way. When the music from the right sound system flows to you with emotion, integrity, and naturalness that the relaxed feeling makes the music remembered for the first time, not hours, but weeks and months and in some cases with my recent Tchaikovsky “Nutcracker” forever.  

So while my Tannoy/Duelund summit is a wonderful place to be, I must now in fairness to other great audio pioneers of music in the home, list my associated equipment.

Preamplifier: KR Audio P-130.

Power Amplifier: KR Audio Kronzilla DX Mono blocks.

Speakers: Tannoy Westminister Royal SE with Duelund CAST Crossover including Duelund Silver Autotransformer.

Source: Linn Sondek LP12 SE with Chord Sarum TA cables, Radikal, Urika, Keel, Ekos SE and Kandid cartridge sitting on Quadrespire wall stand. Cambridge Azur 751BD CD/DVD.

Supports: Equipment Rack and Amp. Stand are Box Furniture S3S and A1SL Speaker decoupling/isolation with Track Audio.

Cables: Kubala Sosna Emotion power cords and interconnects, and Sablon Audio Panatela SE Component speaker cables.

Power Distribution is via  Nordost Quantum QRT QB8 with QX4 power purifier and QV2AC Harmonizers. 

I included a couple of photos.

Kind regards,

Frank

 Many thanks for checking in, Frank, it is always great to hear from you, and your hi-fi looks awesome!

Here's a bit of a teaser for all of you: As I was telling Frank, my Duelund CAST crossovers have continued to get better and better over time, which is sort of amazing really, considering how amazing they were from the very moment that music signal first passed through them.