Quad Elite system (￡3550 total)

摘要

Mild confession: for a decade, the bulk of my listening has been through a Quad 99 system. It consists of a CD player, preamp and 909 power amp. They have been working for roughly ten hours a day five days a week, as my desk system, playing through Spendor LS3/5As and also accepting signals from my computer and an iPod dock. I cannot even think of a system - outside of that in my car - with which I share as many hours. You might imagine, then, that the news of a replacement system for a range launched in 1999, and with which I am on such intimate terms, would fire my curiosity.