Classic Hi-Fi Advertising

[Jonboy]

I met a man at the car booty the other day who had one of these, i gave him my number but he hasn't rung yet,

[DSJR]

My cousin had one of these decades ago. I wonder if he still has it?

[Rare Bird]

One for Marco

[Marco]

Interesting!

Was there any other info with the advert?

Marco.

[Barry]

This advert appeared in the 1967 editions of Hi-Fi News; long before the use of remote controls.

In those days if you could afford Quad gear, one simply got one's "man" to do it for you! The BBC obviously could and did.

I think the tape deck is a Revox 736 and the turntable a Garrard 301 with probably a Decca arm and cartridge.

Regards

[Barry]

Following the theme of Quad adverts - this one is a bit more up to date, but still over 35 years old. Taken from the June 1974 issue of Studio Sound:



The advertisment talks of connecting 50 Quad 303s together, yet the photograph only shows 37 (I counted them - I ought to get out more often!)

I doubt if André, Nick, Dave (DSJR), Garry (quadsugdenman) or I were to pool our 303s together we would meet this total!

[Jonboy]

Ive got one to chip in as well, i think the cables might be a nightmare though

[Barry]

This one taken from Hi Fi News, November 1968 is, on the left, for Marco and on the right, for Nick (Beechwood) and Chris (The Grand Wazoo)

[Barry]

This one is taken from Hi-Fi News, June 1967.



It shows the Audio & Design M9BA Laboratory Pickup Arm. A damped unipivot, this design was ahead of its time. The single pivot point permitted a very low friction (~3mg) design. This arm had a moment of inertia that was less than that of the SME 3009; the reference arm of those days.

Even more innovative and long before the heavy hand of today's Health and Safety regulations, was the use of four mercury contact baths. This allowed the fixed headshell arms to be freely interchanged - one just lifted it off the unipivot. Two of the contact pins that dipped into the mercury pools were copper, the other two were copper plated iron. A magnet in the base of the arm acted on the ferrous pins, effecting bias.

Later versions would be known as the Keith Monks M9BA arm. The only differences were cosmetic. The headshell was drilled with a series of holes for weight relieving, copying that of the SME headshell.

I have one and did use it briefly. It was a good arm to use with the Decca cartridges since the unipivot could be damped with some viscous silicone grease. I would like to resurrect it again to use with a Decca - however I'm reluctant to expose myself to any more mercury vapour. I wonder if it would be possible to bypass the mercury contacts and arrange for a set of fine wires to be connected to the pins, emerge from the top of the arm near the unipivot and terminate in a plug and socket arrangement. This would allow the arm 'wands', of which I have two, to be interchangeable.

[REM]

Ive got one to chip in as well, i think the cables might be a nightmare though

Cables didn't affect the sound in 1974,