The new Quad Elite CDS CD player has been developed utilizing the strongest design features derived from its predecessor, the 99 Series, but the new exhibiting updated internal audiophile-class components, highly specified transformers, multi-layer circuit boards and the latest, most advanced software available.
The Quad Elite CDS CD players new designs build upon the classic Quad sound, adding increased clarity and definition but foremost ensuring that the integrity of musical performance is more accessible and that the message conveyed by the actual music can clearly be heard despite any deficiencies in the recording. Devised as a fully integrated system, the Quad Elite CDS works best when paired when paired with the rest of the Elite Series. The Elite CDS is enhanced according to the highest of Quad's engineering standards to ensure that ease of use, seamless connectivity, fully balanced audio signals plus intelligent control systems that allow complete control via the remote handset, is achieved.
The Quad Elite CDS CD player flaunts a sleek new modern case work design in matte black maintaining a bold but stylishly elegant aesthetic. Constructed using superior class cast alloy, a material used in almost of all Quad's electronic products, ensures that quality is according to Quad's exacting standards, which in turn guarantees a valuable investment that will last a lifetime and will garner much merit over years of enjoyable use.
The history of Quad is one of technical achievement in the field of sound reproduction. It is a story that began with the Quad 1 amplifier, which brought the benefits of 15 years knowledge and experience in professional audio and industrial products to the task of making the most accurate domestic audio amplifier of its age.A few years later, in 1953, the product which set the standard for amplifiers was the Quad II Power Amplifier, the time of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation and the year in which Mount Everest was finally conquered. This amplifier pioneered the principle of cathode coupling through the output transformer to reduce harmonic distortion to almost negligible levels. Such was its clear superiority that this model remained in production for 18 years. Three years later, in 1956, Quad demonstrated the first true full-range electrostatic loudspeaker. This remarkable product (known later as the ESL 57) used a virtually mass-less plastic film as a moving diaphragm between two charged plates. Compared with moving coil loudspeakers, the ESL 57 was free of unwanted colourations and distortions. This landmark product remained in production, virtually unchanged, for 28 years.
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