Showing posts with label Quad 405. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quad 405. Show all posts

Friday, May 1, 2020

Quad 405 restoration

Two units of the legendary Quad 405 amplifier are up for restoration. Both defective and miserable. I guess they have been used in some special setup and someone fitted XLR input and speaker connectors..


A paint job, and restoring the internals. All caps renewed. New speaker posts. The amplifier was upgraded with new low-noise op-amps. One unit had a defective transformer, it made a quite loud humming noise. A typical fault with these amplifiers, and many got changed on the warranty back in the day. I replaced it with a 300VA toroid.

A legendary amplifier, as seen here driving a pair of Revox BX-4100.



Though not original, the sating black finish, is beautiful.