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
...
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
...
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