" Dave xxxx" wrote in message
. uk...
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Anyone in possession of a functioning brain

got me there got lesions on my brain


is well aware that the

II-40 is simply a cynical cashing in on the famous Quad II name,
which
would never have been sanctioned by Peter Walker.

He was still alive and very happy with the match as he had heard them
together, he was not in a postion to sanction it as company belongs to
IAG.
It was made by Andy Grove and is really just a big Quad II in fact so
close a copy early ones built in Bradford before production was moved
to China had the same problems early original Quad II had with
resistors.


He was a *real*
engineer, and always moved forward with his designs, never backward.

yes he was a real engineer and did always move forward with
designs............. but not long before he died I asked someone who
had just been to dinner with him

"What system he was using" ? I was shocked by the answer it was not
valve and not made by Quad it was a Sony type midi system lol

if you look at a Quad II-forty looks just like a Quad II (inside)
picture of inside
http://www.davewhitter.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/quadc.jpg

Well I beg to differ. The Quad II innards look nothing like the II-40 unless
of course you've butchered your Quad II's to make them look the same as the
II-40. For a start the wiring loom (a.k.a. dogs breakfast) would not pass
muster compared to the original.
I guess if you were Tony Blair's spin doctor you could say they were to all
intents & purposes the same as they both have wire, a circuit board and some
components.........