camverton
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As my avatar would mew, meowJust for a morning, or did you go back after lunch?
As my avatar would mew, meowJust for a morning, or did you go back after lunch?
So, if it's big, black, menacing looking audio, that's my fizz.
Does anyone know who designed the Quad 33?
That's fighting talk ! Funny enough, when I was at art college industrial design was one of the options I considered for dipAD. Perhaps it's just as well I didn't go down that path as I might not have had a job at the end of it! I still like much of the Quad style of design. They did choose some rather nice offbeat colours, with a nice variation for the knobs and that lovely contrasting orange. As it wasn't anodyne I suppose it is inevitable that some would like, and others hate it. May the woofers from hell protect us from boring hifi design, of which there is, sadly, a great deal. Just a shame that the Quad 33 was so awful sounding...
That's interesting. I haven't used my 33 in earnest for many along year, but occasionally when trying things out I've used it and found that it was very obvious that it was "in the chain" unlike, say, a Tagmclaren unit. I suppose that it could be in need of attention or possibly it's sensitivity and output didn't suit whatever I was playing with?Yes, different opinions.
I too like the marigold - not orange - 33, but it doesn’t sound awful. I enjoy it every single day. Yet I also have very posh stuff, including valve. Its phono stage is brilliant, and very quiet. My context: 33/303/ESL57. I kid thee not. Equally fine on 94 dB/W speakers.
Peter Walker designed it entirely, yes.
Stevie Wonder?Does anyone know who designed the Quad 33?
I do believe that one is allowed to turn the 303 around .I had Quad 33/303s...
Sorry, but I found them to be super mega fugly. The 33 I found to be a mediocre pre-amp at best as well.
Hmm. I like my connections to be out of sight at the back.
Now now, don't get too butt hurt just because someone with a qualification in design tells you something you like is shitty looking!
That's fighting talk ! Funny enough, when I was at art college industrial design was one of the options I considered for dipAD. Perhaps it's just as well I didn't go down that path as I might not have had a job at the end of it! I still like much of the Quad style of design. They did choose some rather nice offbeat colours, with a nice variation for the knobs and that lovely contrasting orange. As it wasn't anodyne I suppose it is inevitable that some would like, and others hate it. May the woofers from hell protect us from boring hifi design, of which there is, sadly, a great deal. Just a shame that the Quad 33 was so awful sounding...
Now now, don't get too butt hurt just because someone with a qualification in design tells you something you like is shitty looking!
I meant the aesthetic design. Did Peter Walker also design the look of it?
My fizz is JL Audio’s Gotham v2 as it's the component that has impressed me the most over the last thirty three years and followed by the Fathom f212 v2. Both are big, heavy, in gorgeous Gloss Black finish and menacing to look at. Simply jaw dropping performance.
Bad boys
I, too, prefer equipment with as few controls as possible,
Pah. Design qualifications are like nipples, everybody's got one.
IIRC,the Quad 33 series, and the 405 as well come to think of it, won Design Council Awards.
You might not like it, but shitty-looking it's not. Apart from the colour, obviously...