[Patrick Turner]

tony sayer wrote:

In article .com,
Andre Jute scribeth thus

The exact name hardly matters: the two important points are that the
QUAD brought BBC *quality* into the *domestic* setting.

Those were the days when quality meant something.. not anymore;(...
--
Tony Sayer

Wait a minute, at the time of Quad II, rich Australian graziers
were making fortunes in beef and wheat and wool sales before the prices
slumped,
and they spent huge outrageous sums of money on Quad and Leak
on sale at emporiums of distinction. The the rest of us poor battlers
could only dream, and perhaps build our own amps using 807 sold in
wartime surplus stores, and buy awful OPT from Fergesson in Chatswood,
NSW.
And instead of the Jaguars these few rich folks had, we had to buy
Morris Minors and Oxfords
and all manner of crap.
We were lumbered with the perfect crumminess of Bwitish Engweeneerwing.

The Bwitish cars rusted while you watched them, but then nearly all cars
did, because they never bothered to
paint the metal on the inside of doors and body work.

Workmanship was plain SHODDY, and it applied to nearly everything you
bought.

Designs like Quad22 and Leak all were watered down to a lowest common
denominator.

We can build far better amps right now, except due to Chinese
competition, the trend
for famous brandnames is now toward international crappiness......

I do not value Quad-II amps very highly because I know just what they
are, old junk,
and nice old junk, but still junk, like an old Morris Major.

Still, the Willys Jeep Stationwagon my dad had was a strange wonder from
the USA; maybe a lot of WW2 jeep
parts lurked under the snazzy body work.... and finally
mum got a VW beetle in '63, the Germams were pardonned. It was far more
reliable than the Morris Oxford we had.
We sure never had a German Radio, or hi-fi set, until we got a made in
Oz Kreisler stereo gram with two 5 watt
channels, and bloody awful, but then it was at least 20dB cheaper than
anything by Quad
costing a fortune.

Patrick Turner.