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By popular demand.

Several members have requested that I post my system which I have finally managed to do. Please pardon the shots that are out of focus. I am not the world's most gifted photographer or even close. I have done my best to explain things but I'm sure there will be at least a little confusion do please ask questions. Most of the requests have occurred here in analog so I posted it here. There is an analog component but it is rather plain Jane in comparison to the rest of the system. 
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bdp24
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The Hartley woofer was actually a 24" driver. Matching subs with the ESL was for years unsatisfactory to most QUAD owners, but that was before the GR Reaearch/Rythmik OB/Dipole was introduced.

I made my own stands for stacking pairs of QUADS: three layers of 3/4" MDF glued together! Like @noromance, I prefer singles, also naked. Great on small ensemble music (Baroque, acoustic Blues, Bluegrass, Folk, Singer-Songwriter, etc.) and of course vocals, but with very-limited maximum SPL capability (subs help increase that). I have a pair of the QUAD front grilles made by Jerry Crosby, but no grill is even better. Ugly as hell, but oh well.

lewm
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Any of you guys ought to hear the three- pairs- of —quad -57 system that is owned by a local friend. Dave Slagle of EMIA built the amplifiers that drive each speaker via a single interfacing transformer per speaker. So, he eliminated the quad audio step up transformers and all the associated electronics built into each speaker. It’s not quite direct drive but the sound is perhaps best I’ve ever heard. And that is a level of praise that I do that easily or happily confer on any system other than my own.
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LOVE your Acoustat 2+2's!  I restored and updated my pair about two years ago.

They are ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!!
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Great mofimadness! What are you doing for an interface now? Have you considered subs?
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Lewm, how are they set up? Two each side and two in the center? Eliminating the electronics may upset the frequency response. How is he equalizing them? I did the same with the 2+2s. I eliminated the complex interface replacing it with one large transformer. It was favored to run up to 20 kHz at the expense of low bass. I always intended on running subs
subs so this did not matter to me. The big penalty was that the single transformer is a crazy load which few amps can handle. Even the JC1's were getting into trouble until I added a resistor in line with the primary. 
And, which of your systems gets the praise? 
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