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RE: Stereophile Reaches a New Nadir

In all my years as an audiophile, or working in retail, I have never known a person that owned Quads, never seen a store that carried them, and never seen a trade-in pair in the used section.

This was very unlike when the Dahlquist DQ-10 came out and almost all high-end stores carried them. It was said that they looked very "Quad-like", yet I'd never seen or heard the original Quads in this country. The first I really heard about them over here was when they introduced their (405?) "current dumping amplifier and it was reviewed in Audio magazine. A few years later Richard Heyser reviewed the ESL-63 speaker, but he said that he was bothered by a resonance at 5kHz. I can't remember if he had yet invented his TDS technique that allowed waterfall plots to show the resonances.

But they sure weren't common in any place where I've ever lived.

Oh, wait! I take that back. I did see two pairs of Quads one time. It was when the original Mark Levinson had the HQD speakers. There was a local dealer with a pair, but he wouldn't even turn them on for a scruffy college student.

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