Nospamplease
New Member
...overhauled / refurbished 5 Quad 33's, 5 303's, 3 405's and most recently 3 Quad ESL 63's and 1 ESL 57. Any questions? Don't hesitate
...overhauled / refurbished 5 Quad 33's, 5 303's, 3 405's and most recently 3 Quad ESL 63's and 1 ESL 57. Any questions? Don't hesitate
How would you rate the difficulty in refurbing the electrostatic speakers?
I would say a lot of stamina needed mostly. Soldering knowledge comes in quite handy..How would you rate the difficulty in refurbing the electrostatic speakers?
Check them out real good. Here is my experience with my Quad 12L2:I've recently picked up a pair of 12L active speakers, and am impressed! They don't dig very deep, but the mids and highs are wonderful. At some point I'll have to work though the buzz I'm getting out of them when a source isn't playing, but otherwise I'm a big fan.
Sorry but I don't buy equating a Chinese knock-off with the real thing. Sold my 34 already as I much much prefer the utility of the 2 X 44 preamps with its modular design over the 34. I also prefer my upgraded 405-2 to any of the other iterations of it I have heard. Personal opinion though...I've never heard a genuine Quad though after Googling everything I could regarding the Quad 34 pre and 405 power amp I decided to give their ore a miss and sourced a new Quad 405 copy out of China. Experimentation tells me that it sounds like whatever preamp and source you put in front of it, with very little colour of its own. With a Gieseler Gross DAC, Schiit Saga in front driving my Aurum Cantus F620 speakers it's up there with the best I've heard. I really like the amps ability to sound like whatever it's fed. I may try upgrading the OPAMPS for better at some point ( Burton's) though that's likely as far as I'll go.
Funnily enough when I moved my Oldchen K3 amp to the system downstairs it ended up sounding even better in the second system than it did upstairs. Seems the Dayton PS220-8 based speakers needed more power to come alive than the little 10WPC single ended tube amp I had been using.
Sorry but I don't buy equating a Chinese knock-off with the real thing. Sold my 34 already as I much much prefer the utility of the 2 X 44 preamps with its modular design over the 34. I also prefer my upgraded 405-2 to any of the other iterations of it I have heard. Personal opinion though...
Quality Unit Amplifier Domestic.so they're called Quad and do not make any quadraphonic gear? They might want to change the name.