From: info@turneraudio.com.au   
      
   Thanks Patrick! A good read as usual. :)   
   I'm not sure that Phil's website is still there. I couldn't find it, even   
   by changing the spelling etc.   
      
   Gee, I would have thought Phil would have so much pride in what he thinks that   
   he'd have to have a website of his own that was maintained properly, and one   
   to give piles and piles of info about Quad-II and tube audio in general. Alas,   
   there is no website.   
    You'll just have to forgive me for typing my sarcastic hope that Phil would   
   have had the website I mentioned. I have "sensus humarius warperiae". The   
   reality is that Our Dear Phil has yet to get around to carefully crafting his   
   own website which would    
   then show an enormous pile of useful stuff about tube audio.     
      
   But he does have published articles at the westhost.com addresses.    
   Those addresses are real and the site is quite large and there is much that is   
   useful to some ppl. I've often visited the site to look at various schematics   
   for this and that and its always handy to appraise what others do to better   
   know what you wish to    
   do for yourself without blindly trying to copy somebody else's schematics.   
   Through the efforts of others, we know them better and ourselves. Through our   
   experiments trying ideas on bread boards and with building umpteen complete   
   amp systems we grow wise,    
   and none of this can happily proceed if anyone takes himself or his ideas too   
   seriously. So while you learn, be prepared to admit along the way that what   
   you thought might have been true last week was just BS, so admit it and move   
   on, and try harder. See    
   the merits, make sure they can be proven. Always look for a better way.    
      
   1950s was a time when so many UK audio gear makers rested on their laurels.   
   Competition blitzed them. The Japs gave us Hondas and they went better than   
   the old AJS or Triumph.    
   I had a two gutless wonder 250cc BSA bikes, then "Matchless" 500 single   
   followed by a 650 ex police bike. They broke down very often, keeping me poor,   
   and off the road when I didn't want it. So bought a spare Honda 100cc which   
   gave gave much better    
   reliability while I flogged it along everywhere I went, often with a suitable   
   nice fuckable shiela on the back. Matchless 500cc single would vibrate a   
   lot,had loud exhaust and while it ran even local conservative moral shielas   
   got very excited. But they    
   didn't fuck. Ah, such jolly times! Back then, during my Ancient History,   
   nobody I knew could afford Quad gear of any kind. Damned expensive. Few of us   
   had any sound gear let alone hi-fi gear. I quite liked making music with the   
   others in a folk music    
   band for awhile. Great chick puller. But they were all tarts - wanted to fuck   
   everyone - not worth serious pursuit. Music was what you did - too expensive   
   to consume. Then for most of my 20s I studied at night after working guts out   
   all day. There was    
   pop music on the AM radio if you had one. I didn't get a TV until I was 28.   
   Didn't last long, and televised pop music was just atrocious noise made by   
   gits who didn't know what real work was. Live concerts were good, maybe I went   
   to 2 during a decade,    
   always high expense for something you cannot touch or keep. I still get by   
   with so little of everything.   
   I get more joy now on a bicycle. No need for a back seat, shielas have all   
   dried up 20 years ago. I quite enjoy the puzzle of a schematic when I see one   
   or draw one, and now very much enjoy classical music. The Brandenburg   
   Orchestra has put out an    
   amazing number of CDs. Just pick any one and play it over dinner with glass of   
   red. Fantastibulous!      
   Patrick Turner.    
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)