QUAD Vaccume Tube Amplifier Systems - Manual (Page 5)

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Quad products have always
been amongst the finest audio
products in the world. When Peter
Walker started making commercial PA
systems in 1936, few could have predicted
the revolution in hi-fi that many of his products
were to cause, the longevity they would have and
the esteem with which they would be held.
In the early 1950s, he and Gilbert Briggs, founder of
Wharfedale, embarked upon a series of now famous
concerts demonstrating how real high-fidelity music
should be virtually indistinguishable from a live
performance. In order to prove this they toured such
venues as the Royal Festival Hall in London and
Carnegie Hall in New York. Audiences were amazed at
the similarity the Quad amplifiers were able to
reproduce relative to the live performance.
Since these early demonstrations of true high-fidelity,
our product philosophy has remained constant, to
produce a sound which as closely as possible replicates
the experience of the live performance. For many other
manufacturers, the term hi-fi may mean ‘exciting’ or
‘dramatic’ and this can be easily produced without
regard to what the music sounded like in the concert
hall for the listener and may sound ‘impressive’ to the
uneducated ear, but in reality is no substitute for the
sound produced by ‘real’ hi-fi.
“Musicians and recording artists
all over the world have long
recognised the outstanding
quality of Quad products –
exquisite engineering, build-
quality, finesse and refinement.”