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Quad
British hi-fi company founded in London in 1936 by Peter Walker and based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, since 1941. It is famous for the ESL electrostatic loudspeakers and today makes integrated amplifiers, streamers, CD players and passive and electrostatic speakers.
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