From: IainNG@kolumbus.fi   
      
   "John Byrns"  wrote in message   
   news:byrnsj-B56C0F.12381006062011@news.giganews.com...   
   >A couple of questions for Mr. Turner, with respect to the Bean Counters   
   >employed   
   > by Acoustical/QUAD back in the days when the QUAD II was being designed.   
   >   
   > First question, we know much of what you feel is wrong with the design of   
   > the   
   > QUAD II, and how you would design an amplifier using the modern technology   
   > available today, and with cost not an object.  What we don't know is what   
   > sort   
   > of design you wold produce if you were employed by QUAD in the day and   
   > were   
   > tasked with designing the "QUAD II" while maintaing the same factory cost   
   > as the   
   > actual QUAD II.  Any comments on what you would have done differently?   
   >   
      
   Having met, and worked personally with both Mr Peter Walker   
   and his son Ross, when PW produced his audio demonstration   
   direct-do-disc recording, back in the late 70s at Decca Studios   
   in London, I am pretty sure that by his gentlemanly conduct,   
   engineering expertise and strong personality, he produced exactly   
   the amplifier that he envisaged without any "bean counters" having   
   any say in the matter, except to calculate the production costs, and   
   from them the dealer and retail prices.   
      
   > Second question, you may have addressed this in the past, or perhaps not,   
   > have   
   > you reverse engineered the Output Transformer used in the QUAD II?  How   
   > sophisticated was the design, how much interleaving was incorporated?   
      
      
   Sowter UK have done  this and offer a replacement transformer,   
   albeit of different physical dimensions.   
      
   Regards to all   
   Iain   
      
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