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RE: Nwer Quads are Made in China.. For some folks this matters.. nt

Agreed, the bass of the 57 has been found to be a little "wooly" to some owners. Not just rolled off in the deepest bass, but not very clean in the second octave (40Hz-80Hz). Removing that frequency range by installing a simple, single-capacitor high-pass filter---rather than an active electronic x/o, and adding a pair of really good subs for the bottom two octaves, and you now have a speaker capable of playing a little louder AND cleaner. This has been done for decades with great success by many Quad 57 owners.

For those preferring the 988 and 2805 Quads (instead of the 989 and 2905), the money saved by getting the cheaper, extra bass panel-less version will pay for the subs! More bass, deeper bass, and, more importantly, better bass, and the Quad itself will sound better when relieved of having to reproduce that low bass, the upper eight octaves now being more distortion-free.


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