[Jon Yaeger]

in article
,
at wrote on 12/30/07 3:21 PM:

I'm hardly anonymous Jute, and you conveniently forget to add that you
asked me to send my CV in our last exchange. Regardless of your silly
shots, the qualifications are real.
For you to claim you don't know who I am is ridiculous.

Yet if by some odd chance you can qualify for a free industry
magazine, you could read my monthly columns in Live Sound
International, or buy a compilation book of my last 13 years of
columns at http://www.lulu.com/content/806117. There's apparently
is a reason I get paid to write about audio irrespective of the
continuing cheap shots you take at my credentials.

None of the Quad speakers are a real point source (why Walker
developed the Balls), which 99% of the thread readers probably already
knew at the start of this thread. The 63 and its successors mimic an
ideal sphere using a sequential delay lines radiating out
concentrically from a center area. Hence the 11 miles of coil
windings in each one. That would be something the rest of the
audiophile world has already known for roughly 25 years now.

http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeak...16/index6.html

Why one would want to stack one radiating sphere on top of another
other to approximate two unique point sources alludes me. That being
said, I actually did hook up two set of Quads (top pair 63's on Arcici
stands, bottom pair 988s as you suggest. Plays louder, distorts the
image- not very surprising. Defeats the whole point of the speaker to
begin with...

Would someone just take Jute's keyboard away please?

Currently listening to the Quad Knole harpsichord CD which Ross gave
me years ago... still stunning. I've never had a great deal of
success adding a sub to the 63's, but always hoped it would work out
well. I'm very please to hear it can.


Good post.

I previewed your book and like your style. It is descriptive, succinct, and
has punch. One ex-pat So. African fabulist and 3rd-rate author could learn
a lot from it . . .

Oh, don't worry about Andre. He ain't happy unless he's making up **** or
****ting on someone else.

What is your favorite speaker model, if you have one? Or if not, pls. give
a few examples.

Thanks.

Jon