Seasons greetings, pop pickers. Here’s your chance to win one of a host of bumper classic hi-fi goodies in the last of our three sensational Classic Christmas Quizzes!
The first prize winner gets a broken BBC-branded ferric C60 cassette with writing on the label and no box – signed by the zStereo team!
The second prize winner gets a cheap pair of unbranded RCA interconnects (and the red one only works when you wiggle it) signed by the zStereo team!
The third prize winner gets a MiniDisc recorded with assorted speeches from Liberal Democrat party leader Tim Farron, signed by you know who!
Question 1
Philips and Sony agreeing on a 120mm, 650MB disc meant what?
a. Compact Disc had a superior dynamic range to AM radio
b. Compact Disc was able to run uncompressed 18-bit PCM
c. a single CD could contain all of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
d. ELO’s Out of the Blue could not be released in CD format
Question 2
What were Sonneteer’s Campion and Alabaster amplifiers named after?
a. shades of Dulux magnolia paint
b. Sunday evening TV dramas
c. English poets
d. prescription painkillers
Question 3
What do the initials L.F.D. stand for?
a. Lousy Friggin’ Design
b. Low Fuzzy Distortion
c. Lovely Fez, Darling
d. Little Fizz Digital
Question 4
Who founded the Audiolab brand?
a. Peter Swint and Derek Westland
b. Philip Swift and David Scotland
c. Peter Swale and Damon Ireland
d. Philip Swift and Derek Scotland
Question 5
What was the product number of Audio Technica’s Sound Burger turntable?
a. Z-1000
b. TR-808
c. AT-727
d. SB-990
Question 6
Which Japanese company pioneered the Power MOSFET?
a. Sony
b. Hitachi
c. Sanyo
d. Mitsubishi
Question 7
Who founded SME Ltd.?
a. Robert Louis Stevenson
b. Jean Paul Satre
c. Alastair Robertson-Aikman
d. Colonel Bufton-Tufton
Question 8
Who designed the classic Epos ES14 loudspeaker?
a. Robin Williams
b. Robin Hood
c. Robin Marshall
d. Robin Reliant
Question 9
Which of the following cassette decks was made by Nakamichi?
a. Sonab C-500
b. Sony TC-K75
c. Aiwa AD-2000
d. Pioneer CT-F500
Question 10
What was Pink Triangle’s THE PIP?
a. a DAC
b. a phono stage
c. a preamplifier
d. a power amplifier
Mail your entries for quizzes 1,2 and 3 in to rupsuperb@aim.com now!
Watch out for the answers on Boxing Day, and the lucky winner announced…
zStereo 
ANSWERS
[1] c
[2] c
[3] b
[4] b
[5] c
[6] b
[7] c
[8] c
[9] a
[10] c