Nice bit of Yamaha http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-B-2...item2ed4693cb9
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Nice bit of Yamaha http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-B-2...item2ed4693cb9
Lovely but aren't V-FETS the ones you can't get hold of anymore if they go bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by istari_knight
Indeedy, it'll need a full service too... 15 years idle & then thrust into action, those capacitors will be shagged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I may well be wrong but it looks to me like just the power indicator has blown and he thinks the whole amps dead ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-PI...item1c43676d62
Well you were right: those rusty old Quad IIs fetched over £250! "A fool and his money ...."?Quote:
Originally Posted by istari_knight
I just dont get people that entertain QII's
Total 'pipe & slippers', IME, and largely responsible for creating the stereotypical (and totally incorrect) view of all valve amps sounding 'warm & cuddly'! :rolleyes:
After years of believing that blinkered shite, folk are only now starting to discover the truth!
Marco.
I just don't get why people don't entertain quad 11's :scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Barbarian
Maybe it coz they are not Orange :)
There is nothing wrong with the Quad II amps when used with appropriate speakers: they are divine with Quad 57s for example (no surprise there since they were made for one another). I have owned a pair of Quad IIs to use with my Quad ESLs on two occasions; keeping a pair as a back up, should my main amplifier fail. It was only the difficulty with the unique connectors of the Quads that caused me to pass them on.
Quad IIs have a beautiful mid range and are only lacking at the frequency extremes. Peter Walker's fondness of the EF86 pentode for the input stage, means the Quad IIs have a low sensitivity of 1.4V for full output. But apart from that, they were a ground breaking design back in the '50s, and even today still aquit themselves well.
There are classic amplifiers I feel are superior to the Quad IIs: the Radford STA15 Mk. III and STA25 Mk. III and possibly the Leak Stereo 20 (all of which are developments of the Mullard 5-20 and 5-10 circuits), but the Quad II are still worthy of consideration.
My sarcasm was directed at the particular pair for sale on eBay. They had been stored in a damp shed for 15 years; were rusty and the bitumen transformer potting material had leaked from one of the mains transformers! Quite frankly £250 was a rediculous amount to pay for a pair in such poor condition.
Like the obsession with the BBC LS3/5A speakers, people (especially the Japanese) are willing to pay silly amounts for Quad IIs. £500 for a pair in virtually mint condition is, IMO the most that should be paid.