The world's best sounding stereo system
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1133 Registered: Apr-05 | I'm sure everyone saw this, but... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13297212/wid/11915829?GT1=8394 |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4378 Registered: Dec-03 | Stof;- I'm sure everyone didn't. Interesting link! The guy may be right. Threads here:- New Quad ESL models Quad Electrostatic Loudspeaker 63 The latest Stereophile and Hi-Fi News have some articles on these speakers. Hi-Fi News has its contributors proposing their top ten Hi-Fi components from the last 50 years. I think the ESL 57 is in every list. Also see the book "Quad the Closest Approach" reviewed here: Stereophile Book Review: Quad: The Closest Approach quadesl.org > Quad - "The Closest Approach..." A Review |
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Silver Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 647 Registered: Nov-05 | Gary Krakow hasn't heard mine!  I know they sound great (by all comments) but they still look like something to hang the knitting on to me. |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4379 Registered: Dec-03 | That's like judging a painting by how it sounds. Personally, I think they look great. The new ones are prettier by far. All speakers sound better with one's eyes closed, anyway... Or they can be concealed behind a chiffon curtain. |
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Silver Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 648 Registered: Nov-05 | #1 - agree #2 - disagree #3 - agree #4 - agree #5 - agree Now that's 4 out 5 John. Not bad eh? I would love to hear these quad electrostats someday to understand all the profoundly positive remarks. I have no doubt you have something special in your living room John. Besides Mrs A that is. |
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Gold Member Username: DakulisSpokane, Washington United States Post Number: 1005 Registered: May-05 | Hey guys, I, too, read the article and would be interested in hearing Quads if anyone has them somewhere near the great audio desert of Spokane, WA. LOL |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4380 Registered: Dec-03 | Quad Electroacoustics - Hi-Fi and Loudspeakers - Dealers in the USA How far is Seattle, D? Congratulations on "Gold"! |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4381 Registered: Dec-03 | MR, "#2 - disagree" The ESL 57 trim and finish were by Chritopher Heal of Heal's (smart furniture place). They have nice little oak legs. Three per speaker. |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1138 Registered: Apr-05 | The reason I thought everyone would have seen it, is because it was featured prominantly on the front page of MSN.com. Perhaps not everyone used MSN.com as their home page. It's interesting that he calls it the best sounding stereo system, yet really fails to mention what receiver he used. It should have said best speaker system. |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4385 Registered: Dec-03 | Stof, Yes, "not everyone used". I thought the same as you - Mr Krakow only writes about speakers. But then, the receiver can be almost anything, so it is nearly the same thing. You will hear it. |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1139 Registered: Apr-05 | Yes, uses I don't agree that the source of the sound amplification is not important as the speakers. It would have been interesting to know what "low power" receiver he used. Did he mean a tube amp? |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 3265 Registered: Dec-04 | http://www.audioclassics.com/detail.php3?detail=VII&nav=cat But they are not on furniture legs. Low powered receiver not included. Shipping weight!?!? |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4388 Registered: Dec-03 | Stof, What I mean is that I don't think there is any change of amp/receiver that would come close, in its effect on sound quality, to a change from most electromagnetic suspension speakers (meaning voice-coils attached to cones in boxes) to Quad ESLs. Not as long as the amp/receiver works. I can't comment on horn-loaded speakers or stratospherically-priced conventional speakers like those Wilson's (Thanks Nuck!). I like the Wilson ads in Stereophile; that's as close as I can get to a comment... |
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Silver Member Username: ShahrukhdMumbai, Maharashtra India Post Number: 142 Registered: Nov-04 | I personally think it is highly immature for anyone to say "The world's best-sounding stereo system"! It is - like a friend on another forum put it - akin to "The world's most beautiful woman" or the world's best car! Sheesh! |
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Silver Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 653 Registered: Nov-05 | Oh I don't know Shahrukh, my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world. |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 3268 Registered: Dec-04 | I didn't know your wife read the forum, MR! LOL |
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Silver Member Username: ShahrukhdMumbai, Maharashtra India Post Number: 143 Registered: Nov-04 | Yeah My Rantz, like u said... he hasn't heard YOUR system! |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1142 Registered: Apr-05 | I don't know about that Shahrukh. The most beautiful woman in the world is in your neck of the wood and her name is Aishwarya Rai. My Rantz's wife notwithstanding. My wife agrees btw. Somehow the dude had to attract people to look at the article. Somehow "A pretty good old stereo speakers" wouldn't have done the job. |
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Silver Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 654 Registered: Nov-05 | Nuck - one never knows does one? Anyway, like audio components, it's what's in the inside that really counts. |
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New member Username: Eib_nationOhio EIB Nation Post Number: 8 Registered: Jul-06 | The worlds best system is the one that you currently own, and can listen to and enjoy on a daily basis |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 3272 Registered: Dec-04 | That means I do not currently own the worlds best system. Film at 11. |
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Silver Member Username: ShahrukhdMumbai, Maharashtra India Post Number: 144 Registered: Nov-04 | You really think so Stof? Ash's a good freind. I'll pass on the compliments. |
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Gold Member Username: John_aLondonU.K. Post Number: 4410 Registered: Dec-03 | Thread: New Quad ESL models |
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