QUAD Artera Pre

About the QUAD Artera Pre

The new Artera Pre from Quad, Britain’s original high-end audio company, draws on the company’s rich engineering heritage while boasting a design that’s firmly planted in the present. The first dedicated analogue preamplifier to join Quad’s Artera series, the company’s flagship range of solid-state audio components, the Artera Pre reintroduces a familiar Quad feature – the Tilt control.

First available in 1982 on the classic Quad 34 preamplifier, the Tilt control was created by Quad founder Peter Walker as an audiophile answer to tone tuning. He believed that in the real world, the ability to adjust the tonal balance on an amplifier was useful to suit different rooms and recording environments, but that typical tone and EQ controls were clumsy and inadequate in their effect.

While conventional tone controls adjust bass or treble separately, the Tilt control adjusts both ends of the frequency spectrum together – either cutting bass and boosting treble, or boosting bass and cutting treble, in 1 dB increments.

In effect, the audible frequency range pivots – or tilts – on a 700Hz axis, adjusting the overall balance of the sound to make it 'warmer' or 'cooler' without affecting or colouring the volume.

Who is Quad?

Quad is a highly respected manufacturer of quality hi-fi electronics and loudspeakers. They have been developing award-winning audiophile quality products for over 80 years. Their highly praised reputation is well deserved. The company originally built loudspeakers for public amplification, switching to domestic hi-fi after the end of the war.

The first commercially available products were the Quad 22 preamplifier and the Quad II Monoblock power amplifiers, both of which were on the market for ten years with great success!

 

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