A studio in town here had a Quad 8 Pacifica for many years. The power supply however was total s**t so I built a new one for it, improved the sound immensly. The eq was nice but lacked any Q controls and the curves were vary broad and this was a problem when you wanted a tight notch on something. As it got older, the electro caps all dried up and we were constanlty replacing them. The channel strips may have been OK sound wise, but the mix buss was a disaster, real noisy and I don't think it sounded that flash. The circuitry was a combination of a discrete Class A/B opamps and NE5543's. This particular desk was eventually sold and shipped to the US - perhaps still in use somewhere, but it did cut many NZ hit records !!
Tim
Buzz Audio