In article , Patrick Turner
scribeth thus
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;(...
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Tony Sayer
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.
Actually the comments were about the BBC where the accountants and bean
counters are running the place, with the usual results
.
Quite right about some of the above it did take the UK a long while to
find out how to make cars as they ought, but then again some of the QUAD
gear is still around and in active service, where a lot of other stuff
has long been junked.....
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Tony Sayer