In case you didn’t quite follow, let me recap: Pete Hutchison made the vinyl record from scratch, Wayne Piquet provided some Quad parts, Andy Armstrong made the wood cabinets. This unbelievably exotic audio-playback experience (including the ERC acetate) is artisanal audio at its highest level of ambition. The SUTs connect to a L–R (no caps) RIAA “Phono Corrector” ($15k) and a remote controlled silver-wound autoformer-based passive preamp with sixty 1dB steps and a seamless transition to up to +7 dB of gain.Īll the records Dave played sounded fantastically fine, satiny-smooth, and vivacious, but none as fine or exciting or as real-life-like as the acetate test pressing of Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West cut on a Lyrec cutting lathe by Pete Hutchison of the Electric Recording Company.
Both MCs are connected to nickel-core Slagle-built step-up transformers ($2700 for copper, $4500 for silver wire). Everything in these prototype moving coils is new, including the stylus, cantilever, suspension, coils, coil-former, and tieback. The mono and stereo electromagnetic (field coil) cartridges are built from scratch by Dave Slagle. The music-playing source for all this re-invention is a restored, vintage grease-bearing Garrard 301 turntable with two tonearms: one by Thomas Schick, the other by Schroeder. Williamson, might have ended up as an ultimate statement product,” Dave told me.
“This is where we think the original designers, Peter Walker and D.T. The version I auditioned would go for about $115,000. These Quad-things start at $50,000 depending on wood and parts choices.
The high-frequency amplifier uses 80% nickel core and all-silver windings in its step-up transformer, while the bass amp’s step-ups use nanocrystalline cores and silver windings. These reinvented Quads are bi-amped using two push-pull 300B tube amps, which are mounted in the loudspeaker’s base and connected to the Quad panels through Slagle-wound step-up transformers. The cabinets are made from solid 12/4 tiger maple with walnut accents and built by Andy Armstrong.
The only thing that remains from the original Quads are the PVC stator parts rebuilt to original standards by Wayne Picquet of Quads Unlimited in Longwood, Florida. What you see is a re-imagining of the original Quad ESL 57s by Dave Slagle of EMIA (Experience Music Intact Audio).
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