Quadral Shogun Pure specifications

Brand : Pure

General

Tech nical data

Special equipment

The Quad ral Shogun is a classic pit stop from the 80s. In 2004, a box was released under this name in a cooperation between Quad ral and Saturn, which bears the name Shogun but is equipped with current technology. The alleged list price is 799 € per piece, but in practice Saturn never had to sell the boxes more expensive than 399 € per piece. This money is also worth the piece. The workmanship is very high quality, mostly made of real wood, the front is covered with velvet, the cover is very high quality and over the entire front, the connection base is provided with a plexiglass pane.

The sound of the Saturn shogun is very neat, but not exactly neutral. Very solid bass foundation, the treble very clean. The latter could be due to the ribbon tweeters, which are a special feature in this price range. So in terms of sound, the price is reasonable, in terms of workmanship it is significantly higher than what you can get in the price range otherwise.

The Shogun of the "Saturn series" have a radial radiator as a tweeter. According to Quad ral, the frequency response up to 50,000 Hz is thus 'open' at an SAC D source driven by a YAMAHA RX-V4600, the indication is acoustically comprehensible only after modification, even if one takes into account that the differences to the standard CD medium are basically not exorbitant, but rather subtle. 2x 100Watt rated power (sine wave) bring sufficient power. Unfortunately, Quad ral has made a design error. Ribbon tweeters, as used in the original series, must necessarily use a transformer.This combination causes a special phase shift, which must be taken into account in the crossover. The Kombi transformer + ribbon tweeter was apparently simply replaced by the radial radiator. This is unpleasantly noticeable in the sound image. Due to the lack of a subsequent possibility for compensation via an adapted crossover, the polarity of the radial radiators was reversed reversibly for two test objects (high-current plug gold-plated). The result was convincing from the frequency response, the fine drawing and the fidelity of the sound. The discolorations disappear with the modification.

Basically, the Shogun achieves a good HiFi level with the described modification. All the positive properties mentioned in the upper part are as described there. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the (Saturn) Shogun has biwiring terminals.