roke wrote:

I'm thinking of getting one of these power amps. Can find no reviews. Or
else I am looking at the Quad 405. Can anyone tell me what the Mark series
power amps are like? (I will be running it with SAE Mark IB pre-amp and Kef
Concerto speakers).

You have an aversion to anything modern by any chance ?

Graham

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roke wrote:

I'm thinking of getting one of these power amps. Can find no reviews. Or
else I am looking at the Quad 405. Can anyone tell me what the Mark
series
power amps are like? (I will be running it with SAE Mark IB pre-amp and
Kef
Concerto speakers).

You have an aversion to anything modern by any chance ?

Graham


Not particularly. Just trying to upgrade within a certain budget. So, I
decided to keep the concertos, re-cap them, and re-build into a more modern,
tall, cabinet (stumbled across a good german design). For ~150euro don't
think I can do much better with regard speakers.

Then, throwing out my Yamaha CR640 integrated amp. Found the SAE IB for a
great price by accident. Works perfect. Now looking for a power amp for
~150euro. Reckon I can get more bang for the buck with vintage gear, and
would probably match my KEFs better. So I was looking at the SAE Mark gear,
405, and I have my eye on something else which has come up which I won't
mention at this time in case of competition!!

See how it goes..

Ro

"roke" wrote in message
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"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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roke wrote:

I'm thinking of getting one of these power amps. Can find no reviews. Or
else I am looking at the Quad 405. Can anyone tell me what the Mark
series
power amps are like? (I will be running it with SAE Mark IB pre-amp and
Kef
Concerto speakers).

You have an aversion to anything modern by any chance ?

Graham


Not particularly. Just trying to upgrade within a certain budget. So, I
decided to keep the concertos, re-cap them, and re-build into a more
modern, tall, cabinet (stumbled across a good german design). For ~150euro
don't think I can do much better with regard speakers.

Then, throwing out my Yamaha CR640 integrated amp. Found the SAE IB for a
great price by accident. Works perfect. Now looking for a power amp for
~150euro. Reckon I can get more bang for the buck with vintage gear, and
would probably match my KEFs better. So I was looking at the SAE Mark
gear, 405, and I have my eye on something else which has come up which I
won't mention at this time in case of competition!!

See how it goes..

Ro
Also thought the Quad 405 faciliated a good upgrade route... because you can
easily get the Quad 405 upgraded... lots of kits out there...

Then, next amp after the 405 will probably be good Valve monoblocks. But I
don't want to go down the road of having to mess around with and tweak what
I would be able to buy for 100euro a block. Will wait till I can throw a lot
more cash at it. Also, I want a bit more power.

Ro

roke wrote:

Then, next amp after the 405 will probably be good Valve monoblocks. But I
don't want to go down the road of having to mess around with and tweak what
I would be able to buy for 100euro a block. Will wait till I can throw a lot
more cash at it. Also, I want a bit more power.

Ro



Oh, the irony! QUAD gave up valve monoblocks when they went to
solid-state, first with the 303 and then the 405.


S.

"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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roke wrote:

Then, next amp after the 405 will probably be good Valve monoblocks. But
I don't want to go down the road of having to mess around with and tweak
what I would be able to buy for 100euro a block. Will wait till I can
throw a lot more cash at it. Also, I want a bit more power.

Ro

Oh, the irony! QUAD gave up valve monoblocks when they went to
solid-state, first with the 303 and then the 405.


S.

Eh, the Quad II forties??

roke wrote:
"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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roke wrote:

Then, next amp after the 405 will probably be good Valve monoblocks. But
I don't want to go down the road of having to mess around with and tweak
what I would be able to buy for 100euro a block. Will wait till I can
throw a lot more cash at it. Also, I want a bit more power.

Ro
Oh, the irony! QUAD gave up valve monoblocks when they went to
solid-state, first with the 303 and then the 405.


S.

Eh, the Quad II forties??



Sadly, that was a "cashing-in" exercise when QUAD were on their uppers.
It would *never* have happened in Peter Walker's days.

Now he *was* an engineer.

S.

"Serge Auckland"

Eh, the Quad II forties??

Sadly, that was a "cashing-in" exercise when QUAD were on their uppers. It
would *never* have happened in Peter Walker's days.


** The famous Quad II amp is now back in production, almost 40 years after
the last original ones were made.

http://www.stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/805quad/

Still hand wired as before, but with little Chinese fingers instead of
British ones.

Wonder who will be the first to buy 5 of them for a HT system .....




........ Phil