Experience with Tannoy Westminster Royal Gold Reference

Hi to all those who contributed to this post, and to everyone else interested.

I promised to update on the system once finalized. Gryphon Mephisto Solo have been purchased, all components have run-in well, even if with hi-end it can improve over a year or more sometimes. The Mephisto Solo do just great, even if some other amps out there could have done better, but who can try them all !? Powerwise, they do not scare the Westminster at all, which play very well low and loud alike. Those Gryphon are just totally straight amps, no bull, no flaws, no musical preference, no lack of nothing, whether it be power, resolution, balance of tones, timbre quality or dynamics. They are just very slightly on the warm side, as i like it. On a scale from dry/sterile to very warm/creamy sound of -10 to +10, I would give them a 1 or a 2.

The sound is as perfect as i have ever been able to hear so far in my life. Cannot really describe, but just say that it sounds complete and glorious, with real moments of emotions, tears and breathlessness. The instruments vibrate so naturally each in their own acoustic nature and space and altogether at the same time, you are fully taken up in the musical scene.

Everyone visiting me lately, friends, family and mostly audiophiles, have had more or less the same comments: "it's not just music, it's an experience" or "I kept wondering and asking myself what I had just heard after getting back home, and couldn't listen to my own system for a few days before my ears got accustomed to it again". 

I must say that I am quite proud and satisfied, and yet there is improvement to be made at a later stage for the room and main power line, which are really not up to the system.

It has been over a year since I started this audio system, the journey has been very interesting, and fortunately fulfilling as well, so i am grateful since i know how much our audio mania can be disappointing sometimes.

The complete system will soon be uploaded on the "virtual system" as requested by some of you.

@hddg that is fantastic news congratulations on your fantastic system and your audio happiness! Can't wait to see your system pics!

Although this is an old thread, I've been considering a pair of Westminster's....at the moment I'm using a pair of klipsch theatre grand 4 way horns. Hope you are still happy with your tannoys. On the amp front , after much experiments, I've finally settled on VTL amps , the Siegfried monoblocks I'm using for mids and highs are simply " not there" and the solid state power supply and valve management make life so much easier. I'd also like to join other posters in recommending big attention to your line power....after an incident, a very expensive incident a few years ago I installed a whole house power source, never regretted it, cleans up the waveform on your AC and prevents spikes...it was only incidentally that I heard a very audible improvement from my digital sources, since then I've had a mains spur and seperate PS audio power sources for power and frontend components and found a very cost effective improvement in transparency and bass coherence...hope my musings help...this audio addiction...ay  yi yi

Hello to everyone, I am a newcomer on this forum. I am based in Belgium.  
Please excuse possible language approximations, English is not my mother tong.
I currently own a system consisting of:
- Tannoy Westminster GR
- Atma-Sphere preamp MP-3 and amp M-60
- PS Audio Perfect Wave SACD transport & Direct Stream DAC
- PS Audio power plant and power cords
-Townshend Fractal speaker cables


I am wondering if, after 3+ years or so, @hddg could comment some more about his experience in combining Tannoy Westminster GR with the Gryphon Mephisto monos. Any new addition on the front of the preamp? Maybe someone else with the same type of upgrading experience will jump in and share his thoughts with the same loudspeakers.
Thank you all in advance.

I cannot comment on the Gryphon other than that I can see it is very expensive stuff at 60k for each channel and should better be superb! Regardless of the specific amp, I think the Westminster deserves that kind of power and current delivery. It can handle it ;-)
This is why personally I use the ASR Emitter II Exclusive (about 25k) with the Tannoy Westminster GR and I could not be happier. But I have not heard them with even "better" amps so who knows... Perhaps you should also consider a better source with more detail and less added distortion than the PS DS, like any of the dCS units ;-)

Thank you @arisholm for sharing your thoughts.
Your amp, the ASR Emitter II Exclusive, seems to be quite interesting, I must say. I have the feeling those Westminster need much current to shine, hence my interest in the Mephisto.
I was told by the Gryphon's dealer to start with the Mephisto stereo amplifier first, keeping in mind the stereo can serve as one of the two mono ( after a return trip to factory)  should one decide to upgrade for two mono's. The investment is therefore, at first, more in the range of 60.000 USD.  I am quite anxious to find out whether those Gryphon will do the trick for those big Tannoy. @hddg, if you ever come across this thread , feel free please to comment on your own long by now (?) experience.
As far as the PS Audio DS is concerned, I am not sure it deserved the bad press it received on the audiosciencereview.com forum. Here again, I can't wait checking out the very famous Gryphon Ethos.