I must admit I like quads over Logan’s but both good speakers.
Yes agree.I'm with you on that - down from the CLXs - which is a whole other beast to the other Logan's, in my respectful opinion.
The XA 25 was on my shortlist when I had my ESL 63's on the way but I decided on the Benchmark AHB2 and I'm very glad I did. Just a superb match.Has anyone tried the Passlabs XA 25 with the Quad57, Steve Gottenberg reckons it is the best amp he has heard with the Quads better than the mega expensive ASR amp that was top amp in the Quad amp challenge a few years ago
Mcintosh is a great match for stats.I have heard this combination and it sounded great.McIntosh MC 402 drove my ESL rebuilt 63's like heaven, who ever said they dont need some power is arong, My amp showed almost 40 watts on most music and peaks even more. What they did will was being so coharrent, and the projection from the wide panel gave instruments sound so right and most of the right size with out being bloated in imaging. Just a dam fine sounding speakers that killed many of todays 15K-25K speakers of today where over hyped detail and lack of any real musical realness. I finally found the open baffle speaker to replace them and they have some of the same trats as the Quads. My speakers are the Spatial Audio Sapphire M's. Just superb.
Marantz 9s are classic amplifiers.I drove my 57’s with several amps including Pass Aleph 0’s which sounded superb albeit more powerful than the XA25. I just bought a pair of Marantz 9’s which are being restored and I expect them to be the nest amp I’ve heard with the Quads.
That would be me.who ever said they dont need some power is arong,
I’m using Dennis Had’s brilliant 300B SET monoblocks to drive my Quad 57s. I’ve owned my bronze pair for 10 years. I’ll have it buried with me so I can listen to them in the metaverse.For myself, the Quads have enough bass that up till now, I have not been tempted to install the Gradient or Element subwoofers.
I have tried several amplifiers on them. Here’s my list of amplifiers I have used to drive them:
1) the old Spectral DMA 100
2) the Crosby modified Spectral DMA 50 monoblocks
3) the 47 lab gaincard
4) the Stax 80M monoblocks
5) the Audio Research D 76
6) the Croft 7 monoblocks
G'day mate, not sure if you were able to find a good place for the Quads as yet...Does anyone, by chance, know a good source for ESL 57s in or near London? I've been pointed toward Vintage Wireless, and I'm going to check them out. But I'm also wary that I'll want a nicely restored pair, perhaps done by a specialist. I see Classique Sounds on Google, but they're in Leicester, perhaps a little further than I want to go. I'll poke around Pink Fish Media a bit, too, but thought I'd check in here first. Thanks for any tips.
Sadly Wayne Piquet ( PK) a restorer of quads passed away a few years ago. Some had difficulties toward the end with fulfillment from him - however, I had several sets done over the years and never had an issue.G'day mate, not sure if you were able to find a good place for the Quads as yet...
This is going back quite a while, someone in that area highly recommended PK Quads or something similar to that name... can't quite remember the exact one. Anyway, they restored both his ESL57's and ESL 2905's to great lengths. He got in touch with me on another forum and shared pics of it, and they looked fab! Driven by CJ tube amps, he couldn't be any happier. Also had some big Maggie's in the corner but listened more to the Quads after the refurbs were done. I guess that's another personal preference... good on him. What a contrast though to have 57's and 2905's, few decades between those two models!
Anyway, hope you get them re-done soon and you'll be enjoying those fine tunes in no time.
Woof! RJ
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