Margaret von B wrote:
"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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wrote:
And which "much more expensive" speaker system outclasses even the
second best Lowther?
Here is a classification of the best speakers ever made:
1. Quad first series ESL of 1957. The speaker designer's reference.
Yeah, Planets sounds so grand with the Quads.
I'm sorry you're poor, Maggie. Go along to your plutocratic chum
Ludovic Mirabel and listen to his stacked Quads. You get 3dB extra
every time you stack another set of Quads. Four stacked-63 per side are
just about right for totally anti-social volumes in any room up to 44ft
long; more look like showing off. Or a Bessel Array with 7 or 11 ESL,
depending on how long your wall is and how much space you want to give
to amps to drive a Bessel, makes a very impressive stereo wall of
sound. Nobody could make dumb cracks about Uranus before such a wall of
sound.
Of course, if you were as wealthy as I certainly wish you could all be,
you would have Quads for chamber music and a concert hall with built-in
underfloor horns beyond the swimming pool for symphonic music. Or, of
course, you would just hire a symphony orchestra and Jenn to conduct,
any time the mood took you.
By the way, though I did once buy new Quad ESL 57 (they're long since
gone), the Quad ESL of various types I own now were acquired used,
previously loved by a little old lady who used them only on Sundays for
church music, abused by the BBC (via rebuilding at Huntingdon),
delivered by Peter Walker himself to an old chappie who saved five
years for just one when they cost the price of car and willed to me by
him, and so on. For the price of crappy "high-end" boxes you can have
second-hand Quads that will serve for years still.
Andre Jute
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