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Originally posted by JTpantera:
While we are on the topic, who has a good sound system in their garage to listen to while wrenching?
Not a garage system, I haven't had a garage since 2009. But I have always been a nut for recorded sound. It is seldom that we turn a topic in that direction, but I don't think I've ever missed a chance to share when a topic does. I've got 3 pictures to share. (BTW my last garage system had Magnepan speakers powered by a 1970s vintage Phase Linear 400 power amp).
Debbie owns the living room system. My former living room system has been relegated to the bed room, its full of history, its like a museum piece, something I share with our grand kids ... "this is how they did it in the old days". That sort of thing. I also sleep to music via this system from time to time. Forgive the mess, I am working on a matching cherry wood storage system for the LPs, CDs, and DVD's. Rome wasn't built in a day.
This picture is actually 2 pictures I've patched together. Our bedroom in the condo isn't that large, impossible to stand back and take one picture of the whole wall. Opposite the foot of our bed is a pair of the original Quad Electrostatic Loudspeakers, designed in 1957. They are called ESL 57's for that reason. They are also known as Walker's wonders, because they were designed by a Brit named George Walker. The pair I own were manufactured in 1963, they've never been rebuilt and they're still working wonderfully. When you listen to music through them you forget about the speakers, you forget about the recording, and you loose yourself in the performance. There has never been any other speaker that involves a person in the performance like the Quads. They are the Q in the HQD system mentioned by Dave K. Dave, with the right amps they don't need the "H" (Hartley woofers) and they never needed the "D" (Decca tweeters). They can't play ultra-loud in a large room, but they are plenty loud for a small room.
Below each speaker is a Quad II-Forty single channel vacuum tube amplifier. Each amp is rated 40 watts via a pair of KT88 vacuum tubes. They were the first amps I found that delivered solid bass response with the quad speakers, before I found these amps I used subwoofers with the Quads to fill-in the bass frequencies. The subs haven't been needed since I purchased those amps!
