The Quad 306. What can you say? It's one of those amplifiers that a lot of people won't have come across, but to those who have heard, or own one, it's an all time classic. The Quad 306 is a power amplifier. That means it just provides the power for the speakers. A separate control unit (or pre-amp) is needed to connect the other equipment to. This is the way that Quad have traditionally supplied their equipment, with a separate pre- and power amp. The 306 is the second in Quads line of what are called current dumping amplifiers. The first was the famous 405, which first appeared in 1975. It ...
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