I had my second pair of Quad II double-checked and corrected some “idiophiles” mods and tweaks made by previous owner.
Back are the superb sounding Philips/Mullard “Mustard” and “Atom” caps and the paper in oil previously “updated” to those generic, ugly “orange” stuffs… only the color makes me to think about “the other” orange scumbag 😳😱🤯😳 and those weird out-of-specs black electrolytic caps.
The Chinese ceramic tubes sockets and Mundorf’s resistors mods weren’t so bad and have been left for a slightly more analytical overall sound, as these amps will feed the mighty Gotorama 2.0: yes, they’re THIS good, fast, smooth, musical and superbly detailed.
The amps are now back to their classic factory-setting at 16 ohm, perfect for the Goto’s.
Here is a before & after pictures, make your comments and consider that a good and an average job requires same time!
Now, let’s enjoy QUAD II, almost as Mr. Peter Walker projected and built them, almost 70 years ago!
A 100% original, unmodified Quad II pair, as it came from Huntington’s factory in early ‘60s.
Thanks to Massimiliano.
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2 comments:
Unfortunately, there are not many who knows that the best way (sonically) to solder is the wire wrap before soldering method. Your tech had never heard of that, he simply glued the parts together. That saves a lot of time but as the solder is a much worse conductor than copper, the sonic results will be suboptimal.So he did a quick job instead a labor of love.
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