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Thanks for your response Doug. I must check out the Imperial. My Royale is actually in the cabinet most usually associated with the DD18. It's definitely the 24 valve two chassis Royale (with three speakers). I understand they were flexible about which chassis went with which cabinet. I've been experimenting with feeding a CD/VHF signal through the output stage, and the sound quality really is remarkable, despite one of the small speakers having an open circuit coil (it's still working, with some heavy duty resistors doing the job of the coil). I haven't investigated properly yet, but the coil has plastic wires coming from it so it looks as if it may already have been rewound at some stage.

I'm going to be in the USA for three months from January 2010, based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. I'm supposed to be teaching, but I hope to track down one of the Zenith chairside consoles to bring back home. Like you do/would. Just the one. No, honestly.

regards
Jonathan