GoodThe theory of Design

According to Quad’s philosophy a good loudspeaker should add nothing, nor remove anything from the recorded sound. Many loudspeakers on the market adhere instead to a philosophy of extending the high and low frequencies to make an artificially ‘impressive’ loudspeaker. Such an approach can sound good in the dealer’s demo room but is quickly fatiguing and often masks the more subtle nuances of a recording.

Our engineers focus instead on the audible range, ensuring as smooth as possible an integration between bass and treble. This is the most crucial region of any loudspeaker’s frequency response. The human ear is at it’s most sensitive through the

vocal range of frequencies, which is also the range that moving-coil loudspeakers crossover from using the mid/bass driver to the high frequency tweeter.

The art of a good crossover is simplicity, but for other manufacturers the crossover needs to compensate for slight miss-matches between bought in components – Quad doesn’t buy in components, we make them all in-house, so our loudspeakers are designed in perfect synergy. Our crossovers are extremely simple and retain all of the precious mid-range detail and purity that can so easily be lost. We use the highest quality components and windings to ensure nothing is compromised.