I have been living very happily with my pair of Quad 63's for several years now and while I have heard speakers at various shows and at meets which I would have liked to put up against the Quads most often the price range of such speakers was out of my budget.
Recently I stumbled across a pair of Raidho C1s at a price that I could live with so I jumped, I had heard Raidho's several years back and they stuck in my head since.
2 weeks back when I got the Raidho's I played with trying to integrate them with the 63's, my Classe amp has 2 sets of outputs on each channel and I had spare speaker cables so it was an interesting experiment.
Timing was good but with my small room the positioning of both sets became unworkable (they both wanted to be in similar positions to work well) but I did like the blend of Quad lush midrange with the excellent bass and treble from the Raidho's.
Ultimately the Quads went to the shed and I have been rediscovering a lot of music through the Raidho's which can really deliver in areas the Quads never get near.
While enjoying the Raidho's for the past 2 weeks every now and then there were albums where I missed the Quad sound!!
Anyway to the Title above, I was thinking what about a slimmed down Quad speaker and there started the research.
I thought about shrinking the Quad 63s down by taking out the top and bottom bass panels or more correctly the additional panels which fire last with the outer ring of the centre panels.
I could not find anything to help me with the project online so I bit the bullet yesterday evening and spent the night on cutting down one of the Quad 63s and rebuilt it just before going to bed last night.
So this evening some final tweaking and the first Quad Mini was born.
I have it playing off the right channel at the moment with the Raidho's as a filler in the middle just to put some hours on it and it sounds great as a filler that is!!
So next step is to do the same on the second 63 over the weekend and get the 2 Mini's setup to see if I can integrate them better.
Thinking of setting them up sideways either just inside the Raidho's or outside but who knows as the experiment will continue.
All a bit mad I know but they were only going to sit in the shed and go nowhere so there may be life in the old Quads yet.
I will keep you posted on progress over the coming weeks and worst case I may have a set of Quad Mini's for sale in the future for someone who might be space limited and cannot get over the WAF challenge :-))
