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Phil Allison wrote:
Eiron wrote:

Phil Allison wrote:


** Do you have a date for the "High Fidelity" review of the Quad
ESL57 ?

Try here if you like looking for a stylus in a haystack.


** Oh - how very witty .........


http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...y-Magazine.htm



** Found it, in November 1960.

The review is by "Hirsch-Houck Laboratories" an audio test lab run by
actual engineers. They clearly realised the Quad ESL was in a class of
its own.

Must have ****ed off a lot of the US advertisers that kept that Hi-Fi
rag going. Never mind, other came along and thoroughly ****ed on it
later.

" Sounds thin and metallic " & "

To be fair, that's true if your standard is Bose.


Looks like it was built in a Bronx garage " are words I recall from a
famous US subscriber magazine.

Odd comment, given the design of the average US car of the day.

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