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Review 2 of 7
Price Paid:
$1100.00
from ebay with Quad 22 an Summary:
They are manufactured in the 60's, and Quad II are still one of the best amps around.
I am not willing to separate the 22 from the IIs. They are born together anyway! Therfore speakers slection is very important. I had listened many pairs of speakers with Quad 22 and Quad II for several weeks straight. There are several killer combinations here, and it depends on the area of your music room and the money in your pocket. I had try on those speakers shown below, and Quad II this little 15 watt beast did an awasome job with those speakers.
For large room:
magnepan 1.6
Newform Research R645
Acoustic-Research AR9
Klipsch La Scala
For medium room:
magnepan MMG
Linn Ninka
Quad ESL 57
For small room:
Bose 55WER
Acoustic-Research AR4x
Dynaco A25
I reccommend this system for dance or hard electronic type music lover, basicly you need a 12" inch woofer speaker in each speaker cabinet, then you can bump the house.
But for anyone who enjoys classical, jazz or vocal music there is little else to beat this Quad II.
If you don't like the antique looking, you can try the Quad II-forty. Quad II-forty ^_^ Strengths:
The closest approach to the original sound. Very strong construction build.
The speakers play an important role with Quad II system.
You can tune the sounding by tubes. For example 12AX7, EF86, GZ32, and KT66, I try many different brand of tubes. IT's fun to collecting tubes. ^_^ Weaknesses:
GEC KT66 tubes are too expensive.
Bulgin plugs are weak from Quad 22.
We need a 220V step up power transformer in USA.
Original impedance was 15 ohms to 8 ohms, you need to switch several tags on the transformer to get 4 ohms to 8ohms for nowadays speakers. Similar Products Used:
I had lots of Hi-End digital and analog solid state years ago, but I am on the tube side now. My home theater is tube system also.
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