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In Reply to: RE: Congratulations! posted by longtimequadowner on September 03, 2014 at 22:32:16
Well I hope that if I get the restored amp that it hasn't lost the magic. My experience dictates that bringing amps "up to modern standards" most of the time means the death of the original alluring qualities.
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I have a "Chinese" 909 which still has all the audiophile unapproved Chinese caps, etc, etc.
I have removed the Quadlink board ( eliminated the power on led, oh dear) which made a dramatic difference in overall transparency.
The 909 makes my US Monitors dance and sing. My tube amps get used about once a month for a while.
The single 909 has plenty of power in my 20X20 room, but I run the Quads from about 100 hz up, subs below.
I would think a 909 would be fine with 57's if you were careful with the go pedal.
I have the audiophile approved "better" reservoir caps, etc, and some day I will get around to swapping them out, but right now I can's spare the amp out of the system that long.
We agree on that, I'm looking for another 606 MkII and want an original. If I'm alive 20 years from now, I'll still be listening to my current 606. If you see an original 303 with a bulgin power cord (the round one) and can hear it working, you might get lucky - but in the $500 range I wouldn't sneeze at a newer 303 either - they didn't change that much I'm sure.
Damn me to hell though I do want to hear the Quad QMP current dumping "briged 909" (260 watts?) type deals in my massive room, it's just a 606 really (with the interference of their Quadlink thing). But it's quite possible Quad is just a roll of the dice on inconsistent chinese built crapola these days, and I've had some experiences with newer stuff that leads me to think that. Not sure if Stereophie/TAS open amps up to peer inside any more - and even if they do, they should buy one off the shelf - take the roll of the dice the rest of us do.
But honestly, I can't really imagine improvement on my 606 in my current room - really can't - at least not at the still quite low volumes I listen at.
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