Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57?

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Hi Eric (Bdp24)   

In followup to your post,
U know..... I keep changing music genres lately, more than usual. There really seems to be no rhyme or reason to it all. I can't explain it. I think it is due to stresses from the past holiday period.
   
Probably the best feature of that Sub remote I mentioned in my last post, are the buttons along the bottom - 4 of them..... presets..... which can be selected for "four" personalized customized settings; One can set them if they choose, for different musical genres like Classical, Jazz, Classic Rock, Reggae, etc.... with varying amounts of DB, even different X over point for each, depending on how badly the music is compressed.

Right now I have my four buttons set up for.

1) Classical 2) Classic Rock 3) Folk and 4) Adele

The 4th category nicknamed such due to requests from my wife and her friends over the holidays. Should probably change it back to Jazz. Last two weeks in Dec can be a very stressful music period. 

Cheers Chris

Kalali
Those of us who can’t afford the "perfect" speakers, resort to multiple room/system set ups for listening to different types of music. It might be a wash at the end cost-wise but it offers the opportunity to buy more toys to play with.

My multiple rooms are due to the audiophile disease, curiosity. and have nothing to do with finding the perfect speaker as it does not exist. If I frequent a room long enough, a system kit, ends up in there. With different technologies, just to make it more interesting. Its a virus thing.

Audiophiles seek change and are never happy with status quo....full stop.

Whether you keep making changes to just one room, or multiple rooms, is irrelevant. Some, with multiple rooms available, are just better at multi tasking than others :^)

At the height of glory, I think I had 5 rooms going. Not sure ask my wife.
I am currently being contained to two adjacent rooms in the full basement of our home. Audio friends tell me I am lucky, but I feel like I can break out into a room upstairs where the Modded Acoustat Model 3’s are hiding at any time.

Kalali         1/8/2017

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Nice thread !

 The loudspeaker/Amplifier partnership should be viewed as a matched pair.

When building a system one should first choose a loudspeaker, then find an amplifier (within budget) that is up the task. 

I made the mistake of purchasing a Quad 57, and was unable to find an amplifier that could do justice to it. I had to build a suitable amplifier. At that time ( A very long time ago ) the only serious amplifiers I was aware of were the Mark Levinson ML_2 and the Bedini. The ML_2 was the inspiration for my amp.

ML_2            Mono - Pair            25, 50,100 watts into 8, 4, and 2 ohms
My Amp        Mono - Pair           50,100, 200 watts in 8, 4, and 2 ohms
We never tested the amp at one ohm, but it was designed to be stable into one ohm. Eight 150 Watt Motorola bipolar output transistors per channel.